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Gary Brown
Hi,
When my daughter shut down her system (XP Home w auto-update) she
got a message that something was corrupted (this is second hand from
a non-techie) and one of the options was to restore. After restore many
applications disappeared from the OS (files were still there - XP just
forgot
about them). Otherwise, things appear OK.
Attempt to restore before that time are thwarted by a lack of a restore
points from before that problem arose. My understanding is that XP saves
a restore point whenever it is updated (recall, auto-update was on so there
should have been many).
Any ideas what might have caused the shutdown problem (difficult with
such vague info, I know)?
More importantly, what happened to those previous restore points?
Is there a way out of this other than reinstalling those missing
application?
Thanks,
Gary
When my daughter shut down her system (XP Home w auto-update) she
got a message that something was corrupted (this is second hand from
a non-techie) and one of the options was to restore. After restore many
applications disappeared from the OS (files were still there - XP just
forgot
about them). Otherwise, things appear OK.
Attempt to restore before that time are thwarted by a lack of a restore
points from before that problem arose. My understanding is that XP saves
a restore point whenever it is updated (recall, auto-update was on so there
should have been many).
Any ideas what might have caused the shutdown problem (difficult with
such vague info, I know)?
More importantly, what happened to those previous restore points?
Is there a way out of this other than reinstalling those missing
application?
Thanks,
Gary