Home to Pro upgraded, System Restor edont work.

[Terry]

I upgraded from XP home to Professional and now when I
hit system restore i get this..

The procedure entry point
RemoteAssistancePrepareSystemRestore could not be located
in the dynamic link library WINSTA.dll

Does anyone know how to get this to work again?

Thanks,
Terry

 

[babuji]

Hi Terry,

To fix this System Restore issue, follow these steps:

1. Double click My Computer, click the Tools menu -> Folder Options.

2. On the View tab, make sure to check the option "Hide extensions for known
file types".

3. Click OK.

4. Click Start -> Click Run. Type "%windir%\inf" (Without quotation marks)
in the Open field. Click OK.

5. Locate and select the file "sr.inf". Right-click it and then click
Install.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Terry,

Once System Restore goes bad, the only thing you can do is stop it and
restart it. Start/run services.msc, locate the SR service and doubleclick
it. Click the stop button, then set the startup type dropdown to disabled.
Click apply/ok, then reboot. Reverse the steps to restart it.

Be forewarned that doing this removes all existing restore points, but it
doesn't really matter as they weren't working anyways.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Guest]

1. Put the in the Windows XP CD
2. Click Start , Run
3. Type the following then OK

rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
C:\Windows\Inf\sr.inf


You can also open Windows Explorer, go to
C:\Windows\Inf folder and right-click sr.inf (Then
Install)

 

[Alex Nichol]

Once System Restore goes bad, the only thing you can do is stop it and
restart it. Start/run services.msc, locate the SR service and doubleclick
it. Click the stop button, then set the startup type dropdown to disabled.
Click apply/ok, then reboot. Reverse the steps to restart it.

Be forewarned that doing this removes all existing restore points, but it
doesn't really matter as they weren't working anyways.

Two points: With the Winsta not found, doing the reinstall as suggested
by babuji is worth it too. And after rebooting with SR Disabled, I
would have Folder Options - View set to show Hidden files, and *not*
Hide Protected mode ones then open the System Volume Information folder
on each drive and delete all the contents - troubles may have resulted
in there being 'orphaned' files still around

And when setting it up again, I would take the Settings for each drive
and review the amount of space being allocated. By default it is 12% of
a drive, and there is reason to think that this is far roo much for its
own good on modern high-capacity drives. I run SR on C: only and find
allowing it 500 MB keeps about two weeks worth of points, which is
about as far back as is worth going

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

I agree with all of this. It's definitely worth deleting the existing
information to avoid conflicts before restarting. Generally, if restarting
doesn't help, then reinstalling is the next step. I also use SR only on C:\
(the system drive) and also have reduced the allotted space to a much more
reasonable 4-5%.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone