System Restore Problem--- Bert??? (or anyone else)

[MZB]

I am having a problem with System Restore. It works fine as far as my
manually setting a restore point. It appears to do a restore properly.

BUT IT WILL NOT SET THE AUTOMATIC CHECKPOINT/RESTORE POINT.

I've perused your article and gone through most of the steps.

I haven't seen anything that is causing the problem.

I looked through the sr/srservice event viewer and didn't find any problem.

I've run my AVG virus program and Ad-Aware anti-spyware. Nothing of interest
there.

I've disabled and then enabled SR.

I've now just reduced the file space for SR info to 5% from the default of
12%. I guess I'll see if that makes a difference.

My next step might be to reinstall SR as per your article via the sr.inf
file.

Unless you have other suggestions.

One other possibility: this is on a fairly new Dell Inspiron 2200 notebook.
Generally, I don't leave it on. When it is on, I guess it isn't idle too
much as I'm generally using it -- but it is sometimes idle for 5-10 minutes
here and there. Should I try leaving it idle for awhile?? If so, is there a
specific default time that SR would kick in?? I guess I don't like to leave
my laptop running all day or night (afraid of heat build-up problems).

Any other ideas/suggestions??

Mel

 

[Guest]

Why use the auto restore,it just eats up system free-space.Try creating a
restore
point and leave it at that.Also,leave restore at default setting 12%.

 

[TaurArian [MVP]]

<snip> Creating daily restore points System Restore creates a restore point every
24 hours if the computer is turned on, or if it has been 24 hours since the last
restore point was created. Scheduled restore-point creation occurs when the computer
is idle, when there is no mouse, keyboard, or disk activity. <snip>
More information:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prmb_tol_fngj.asp

 

[MB_]

Uh... yeah... as I said, I've read all that, hence my last paragraph. That
MIGHT be the problem or it might not. It's hard to say how long my laptop
remains idle.


Mel

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Mel,

It could very well be there is not enough idle time for autocreate to
work. Or there could be an app running in the background preventing it
also.

I would suggest using the following script to adjust the restore point
frequency from 24 hours to 18. Leave the system on, and set it to go
into Standby after a half hour. Check each day to see if autocreate is
working.

XPSystemRestorePointFrequency.vbs
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srscripts.html