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Eric Anderson
Questions:
1. I just found that I only have restore points back to the first week
of August, but my computer was received in late June and I have been
installing things right along. There is a checkbox that says to check
it to get restore points older than 5 days, but that only displays a
few more restore points.
How do I get it to save restore points older than a few weeks.
2. Is there a way to edit the registry or have it "repaired" for
standard Microsoft features that does not require reverting to an
older version and losing EVERYTHING you have done as far as installs?
Background:
Several things do not work as they should and the solution is always
to go back to a restore point where they did. Three problems with
that. 1. I don't have a restore point where it worked (see above). 2.
I have installed a lot of things that i don't want to reinstall just
to get a minor thing working again. (I would have to do that,
correct?) 3. I did not know that a feature was not working until just
now. For example, I just found that the Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) is not working in the windows sharing area. It
recommends....you guessed it..... to revert back a restore point where
it did work. I have no idea when that was (probably upon receipt of
the computer). I am NOT going to go back there to get functionality of
something I have not used yet with the loss of the functionality of
everything I have installed. There are other irritating things that
are also not working properly. For example, the Security Center
service cannot be started. It does not appear to keep the security
components from working, but I can't "turn it on". I assume that there
is a corruption of something in the registery. It would sure be nice
if there was a Microsoft utility that check standard Microsoft
registry entries for integrity and fixed those.
1. I just found that I only have restore points back to the first week
of August, but my computer was received in late June and I have been
installing things right along. There is a checkbox that says to check
it to get restore points older than 5 days, but that only displays a
few more restore points.
How do I get it to save restore points older than a few weeks.
2. Is there a way to edit the registry or have it "repaired" for
standard Microsoft features that does not require reverting to an
older version and losing EVERYTHING you have done as far as installs?
Background:
Several things do not work as they should and the solution is always
to go back to a restore point where they did. Three problems with
that. 1. I don't have a restore point where it worked (see above). 2.
I have installed a lot of things that i don't want to reinstall just
to get a minor thing working again. (I would have to do that,
correct?) 3. I did not know that a feature was not working until just
now. For example, I just found that the Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) is not working in the windows sharing area. It
recommends....you guessed it..... to revert back a restore point where
it did work. I have no idea when that was (probably upon receipt of
the computer). I am NOT going to go back there to get functionality of
something I have not used yet with the loss of the functionality of
everything I have installed. There are other irritating things that
are also not working properly. For example, the Security Center
service cannot be started. It does not appear to keep the security
components from working, but I can't "turn it on". I assume that there
is a corruption of something in the registery. It would sure be nice
if there was a Microsoft utility that check standard Microsoft
registry entries for integrity and fixed those.