System Restore will not restore.

[Guest]

About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more
slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the
message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each
preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a
week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down
again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked
up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore
and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's
restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep
System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Ed

SR could have had some corrupt files in it when you tried to restore
originally. The subsequent success at using SR would suggest that the SR
checkpoints with the corrupt files in had been deleted. Is everything
working OK now still?

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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[johnf]

The options I would try is -
1. Do a complete system cleanup - go to Windows Explorer, right click on
your main-drive, Properties/Disk Cleanup/OK
2. While in Windows Explorer, go to Documents and Settings, expand 'your
user-name' in the tree, / Local settings & delete everything in both the
Temp & Temp Internet files folders
3. Install both Adaware & Sybot to finish cleaning your system out -
they're both safe to use.)
4. Check if that improves your system.
5. If everything now seems to be working fine, right click on My Computer
(on the Desktop), Properties, select the System Restore tab, check the 'Turn
off System Restore" box, reboot, go back & uncheck that box.

 

[Guest]

Hi Will-Thanks for your input and quick response. Everthing seems to be
working OK now. Ed

 

[Guest]

John- I do use Spybot. Will Adaware run compatibly with Norton Personal
Firewall? Thanks for your detailed reply to my SR question. Ed

 

[johnf]

Adaware AFAIK, will run with anything installed.


Interesting that you're running Norton Personal Firewall, there've been so
many "all-invasive" complaints about their latest products recently.
I'd tend to completely uninstall it & also remove ANY traces from the
Registry temporarily. then see if you note any change.
After all, you do have XP's firewall as a backup.
I dumped them about 4 years ago, as their one at the time (Gold, I think it
was) started off fine, but after a few months my system slowed down
completely -
e.g., everything started to slow down, one thing for example I discovered
was that if you opened a Word doc., it would completely vet it first before
it would allow it to open, usually about 20-30 secs., then do the same when
you tried to close it.
Also, you could 'disable' it, but parts of it still kept running in the
background!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

However, be aware that the Windows firewall only monitors incoming, not
outgoing traffic. NIS and Zone Alarm do both.

 

[johnf]

Sorry, forgot to mention that.
But it was only supposed to be temporary to see if made any improvement over
several days - besides, I did say 'clean your whole system first', so there
should be nothing going out for a couple of days anyway


--

johnf

However, be aware that the Windows firewall only monitors incoming, not
outgoing traffic. NIS and Zone Alarm do both.

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

Adaware AFAIK, will run with anything installed.


Interesting that you're running Norton Personal Firewall, there've
been so many "all-invasive" complaints about their latest products
recently. I'd tend to completely uninstall it & also remove ANY traces
from the
Registry temporarily. then see if you note any change.
After all, you do have XP's firewall as a backup.
I dumped them about 4 years ago, as their one at the time (Gold, I
think it was) started off fine, but after a few months my system
slowed down completely -
e.g., everything started to slow down, one thing for example I
discovered was that if you opened a Word doc., it would completely vet
it first before it would allow it to open, usually about 20-30 secs.,
then do the same when you tried to close it.
Also, you could 'disable' it, but parts of it still kept running in the
background!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Right.

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

Sorry, forgot to mention that.
But it was only supposed to be temporary to see if made any improvement
over several days - besides, I did say 'clean your whole system first', so
there should be nothing going out for a couple of days anyway


--

johnf

However, be aware that the Windows firewall only monitors incoming, not
outgoing traffic. NIS and Zone Alarm do both.

--
Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine]
(Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested)

Adaware AFAIK, will run with anything installed.


Interesting that you're running Norton Personal Firewall, there've
been so many "all-invasive" complaints about their latest products
recently. I'd tend to completely uninstall it & also remove ANY traces
from the
Registry temporarily. then see if you note any change.
After all, you do have XP's firewall as a backup.
I dumped them about 4 years ago, as their one at the time (Gold, I
think it was) started off fine, but after a few months my system
slowed down completely -
e.g., everything started to slow down, one thing for example I
discovered was that if you opened a Word doc., it would completely vet
it first before it would allow it to open, usually about 20-30 secs.,
then do the same when you tried to close it.
Also, you could 'disable' it, but parts of it still kept running in the
background!

--

johnf

John- I do use Spybot. Will Adaware run compatibly with Norton
Personal Firewall? Thanks for your detailed reply to my SR question.
Ed
:

The options I would try is -
1. Do a complete system cleanup - go to Windows Explorer, right click
on your main-drive, Properties/Disk Cleanup/OK
2. While in Windows Explorer, go to Documents and Settings, expand
'your user-name' in the tree, / Local settings & delete everything in
both the Temp & Temp Internet files folders
3. Install both Adaware & Sybot to finish cleaning your system out -
they're both safe to use.)
4. Check if that improves your system.
5. If everything now seems to be working fine, right click on My
Computer (on the Desktop), Properties, select the System Restore tab,
check the 'Turn off System Restore" box, reboot, go back & uncheck
that box.

--

johnf

About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and
running more slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System
Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use
previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with
no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to
be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a
stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up.
Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System
Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from
the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening
here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it
should? --- Thanks for the help. --
Ed Avery

 

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