Can system restore be turned "on" in safe mode?

[Guest]

I was attempting to remove a virus [spybot.32] and while doing so turned off system resore, as directed. A malfunction occured and the system froze completely. I can restart in safe mode, but restore cannot be turned on . When I try normal mode the startup freezes during the "loading user settings" mode. Any suggestions?

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Yes System Restore works in Safe Mode. After a reboot keep tapping the F8
key until you see a 'DOS like' screen with Safe Mode as an option. Select
that and then, a bit later, you will be given the option to use SR or carry
on into Safe Mode.

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Will Denny
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message | I was attempting to remove a virus [spybot.32] and while doing so turned
off system resore, as directed. A malfunction occured and the system froze
completely. I can restart in safe mode, but restore cannot be turned on .
When I try normal mode the startup freezes during the "loading user
settings" mode. Any suggestions?

 

[Patti MacLeod]

Hi Stever Streeter,

You could give this a try:
When your computer is starting/restarting, keep tapping the F8 key until you
get the Advanced Startup Options menu. From this menu, choose Last Known
Good Configuration.


Regards,

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Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

I was attempting to remove a virus [spybot.32] and while doing so turned

off system resore, as directed. A malfunction occured and the system froze
completely. I can restart in safe mode, but restore cannot be turned on .
When I try normal mode the startup freezes during the "loading user
settings" mode. Any suggestions?

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

He can start in safe mode, he has already said as much.

What he can't do is turn on system restore (which he had previously turned
off). I have no idea as I have never even used "system restore". My cup of
tea is frequent use of Drive Image!

Even if he could turn on system restore, his restore points will be gone.
They get deleted when restore is turned off.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[D.]

I was attempting to remove a virus [spybot.32] and while doing
so turned off system resore, as directed. A malfunction occured
and the system froze completely. I can restart in safe mode,
but restore cannot be turned on . When I try normal mode the
startup freezes during the "loading user settings" mode.
Any suggestions?

I've never said this, as I've always said try other things & wait for
a good reply, but with you're turning off system restore & deleting
all of your restore points, & you can't go back to a good config, it's
time to consider re-installing Windows. Of course you can start in
safe mode so maybe there is something you can do.

I just re-installed Windows because of a very intermittent shutting
down problem that I couldn't trace. Even when I set Windows to give me
the blue screen of death & it reported what failed, it was always
something different failing.

So with the re-install I got rid of all of the crap I had always said
yes to & installed. Like a bunch of non-critical updates at the
Windows update site to name some.. More & more stuff adding itself
into Windows. This time I am being more selective in what I load.
So far so good after 3 days. Fingers crossed...

I would suggest to anyone, especially now that prices have come down,
to purchase an external USB hard drive to save all of your installed
stuff on. I bought one a few months ago & good thing I always save to
my HD everything before i install it. & I had a lot of movies & some
music files that took up around 50 gigs. It sure made a re-install
easy to decide to do.

The external HD works great. It sits out of the way on my desk. I
have it's power supply plugged into an underneath-the-monitor power
strip with separate on/off buttons for each plugged in thing. It is
always plugged into a USB port. So when I want to use it, I just
switch it on with XP running, & in a couple of seconds XP recognises
the USB device & adds a new drive letter into start\my computer, and
everything is hunky-dory. When i don't want to use it anymore I just
toggle the power strip button off and XP removes the assigned drive
letter. I didn't even have to load up a driver from the CD. Even
though it is a Ximta brand hard drive it uses XP's Samsung driver for
it.

D.