restart, turnoff, logoff, restore commands are ignored

[Victor Benavente]

Whenever I execute the turnoff or restart commands,
windows XP seems to ignore them. I tried to restore it to
a date when there were no problems, it goes through the
steps normally, reboots it and then it tells me that the
restore did not place.

According to Norton Antivirus i have no viruses,or worms.
I reinstalled Windows XP (not a completley new
installation from scratch) to see if it would repair
possible corupted files and the problem persisted. I also
run Norton Utilities to fix problems with no results..

Anybody please have any ideas how to fix this problem
short of completely reinstalling Windows Xp professional.

 

[Willit]

Restore is not reliable. It's a marketing gimmick for MS.
You can turn it off from Control Panel > System > and then
re-boot and it will purge it's file. Then re-boot, turn it
back on.
You still have to deal the problem, it's a crap program,
that half works, half the time.

Do a real backup and get Erunt for your registry. It puts
a folder on your root dir with a installer.

http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/

System Restore In MS's own words .......lol


"The System Restore feature of Windows XP enables you to
restore a PC, in the event of a problem, to a previous
state without losing personal data files. System Restore
actively monitors system file changes to record or store
previous versions before the changes occurred. With System
Restore, you never have to think about taking system
snapshots as it automatically creates easily identifiable
restore points, which allow you to restore the system to a
previous point in time."


"you never have to think about taking system snapshots"
Oh, really.