System Restore Filter Problem

[PhilC]

Assistance would be appreciated. Went to do a System Restore tonight, and
all previous Restore Points appear to have been deleted. Appears to be now
working OK, and I have created one as a test, which appears to work. After
finding problem, I checked the Event Viewer and found the following error
there.

<The System Restore filter encountered the unexpected error '0xC00000A1'
while processing the file 'shell32.dll' on the volume 'HarddiskVolume1'. It
has stopped monitoring the volume.>

Can anyone please explain what this means ? and is there anything I can do
to ensure it doesn't occur again ?

Kind Regards,

PhilC

 

[Guest]

Assistance would be appreciated. Went to do a System Restore tonight, and
all previous Restore Points appear to have been deleted. Appears to be now
working OK, and I have created one as a test, which appears to work. After
finding problem, I checked the Event Viewer and found the following error
there.

<The System Restore filter encountered the unexpected error '0xC00000A1'
while processing the file 'shell32.dll' on the volume 'HarddiskVolume1'. It
has stopped monitoring the volume.>

Can anyone please explain what this means ? and is there anything I can do
to ensure it doesn't occur again ?

Kind Regards,

PhilC

From time to time when your system is working fine you need to shut off
system restore and reboot then turn S/R back on again.This will clean out any
corrupted files (restore points) that will cause problems with S/R.

 

[Ms. Linda A.W.]

From time to time when your system is working fine you need to shut off
system restore and reboot then turn S/R back on again.This will clean out any
corrupted files (restore points) that will cause problems with S/R.

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Exactly how can one determine when to do this? My old explore points
just go away as space fills the restore area. How can I determine when
Windows has stored a corrupted store point? Seems the only way to detect
a corrupted store point is to try to restore to it, though I've noticed I
seem to have the most problems after intstalling Windows Critical Updates.

Perhaps some of the Critical updates corrupt the restore points
to disable uninstalling those updates that are supposed to be uninstallable?

-l

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Phil,

What is the Event ID and Source from the Event Viewer?

 

[Bert Kinney]

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This is not necessary. The only way to tell if a restore point has
gone bad is to try to restore with it.
The best way to protect restore points is to keep the system free of
virus and spyware/malware infection. Here are some instruction on
doing so.
http://home.earthlink.net/~mvp_bert/html/spyware.html

My old explore points just go away as space fills the restore area.

This is normal. When the store fills up the oldest restore points are
deleted to make room for newer ones.

How can I determine when Windows has stored a corrupted store
point? Seems the only way to detect a corrupted store point is to
try to restore to it,
though I've noticed I seem to have the most problems
after intstalling Windows Critical Updates.
Perhaps some of the Critical updates corrupt the restore points to
disable uninstalling those updates that are supposed
to be uninstallable?

It is possible critical updates could cause this, but I suspect it
would be a bug in the update.