System Restore Anomaly

[JamesJ]

I'm using Vista Basic sp2
Sometimes my System Restore dialog will be missing the area at
and below the Recommended restore selection. The command buttons
are ok.
This occurred yesterday and I know it was fine in the morning 'cause I
created 3 manual restore points one before installing 3 dvd maker
type software.
It seemed to happen after I opened System Restore after installing the
third program. But I can't remember if I used System Restore after I
installed
the second program. (Maybe I should have uninstalled before installing)

This and the other times it has occurred rolling back to a restore point
fixed
it but this time rolling back to a restore point made the previous day had
no effect.
It wasn't until a Definition Update for Windows Defender was installed and
after a
reboot did it get fixed.
In another occurrence a couple months ago an activex update seemed to
correct it.
I'm nearly positive that one of the programs I installed is the culprit.

Was wondering if anyone else has experienced this anomaly.
Anyway I might avoid this in the future?

Thanks,
James

 

[Tae Song]

I'm using Vista Basic sp2
Sometimes my System Restore dialog will be missing the area at
and below the Recommended restore selection. The command buttons
are ok.
This occurred yesterday and I know it was fine in the morning 'cause I
created 3 manual restore points one before installing 3 dvd maker
type software.
It seemed to happen after I opened System Restore after installing the
third program. But I can't remember if I used System Restore after I
installed
the second program. (Maybe I should have uninstalled before installing)

This and the other times it has occurred rolling back to a restore point
fixed
it but this time rolling back to a restore point made the previous day had
no effect.
It wasn't until a Definition Update for Windows Defender was installed and
after a
reboot did it get fixed.
In another occurrence a couple months ago an activex update seemed to
correct it.
I'm nearly positive that one of the programs I installed is the culprit.

Was wondering if anyone else has experienced this anomaly.
Anyway I might avoid this in the future?

Thanks,
James

Yeah I had that happen to me today. Strange thing is it happened both on my
laptop and desktop computer at the same time. I noticed it on my desktop
first, so I checked the laptop. I rebooted the laptop it came back . I
rebooted the desktop and main administrator profile I normally used
disappeared. It booted up with a normal user profile and I had no other
administrator access. Booted into safe-mode and even there it used my
normal user profile. I had no administrator access and trying to enable
administrator account didn't work. You already have to have admin access to
reenable it. I checked User accounts in Control Panel and my admin account
I used to use doesn't show, but using the command line it shows up, but I
can't do anything with it. I tried booting from the Windows DVD to do a
restore and there was only one restore point, but it put me back at the same
spot I was after the reboot, only a regular account, no admin rights.

I was planning on making some changes to the desktop anyway (installed RAID
drive as boot and install Windows 7 x64) so it wasn't a huge deal though. I
had everything backed up and ready to go for a reinstall.

Windows 7 was no go, it doesn't recognize Gigabyte i-RAM and doesn't like
Intel RAID, it just sits at the black screen with with version info at the
lower-right corner with RAID enabled. It worked on my other test machine
with AMD with Nvidia chipset and Nvidia RAID setup, so I wasn't expecting
any trouble. Windows 7 finally worked, but only without RAID and I ended
up going back to Windows Vista Home Basic x64, but RAID and i-RAM ramdisk
works.

Windows 7 RC is definitely not ready for production, at least not for me.

 

[JamesJ]

When this happens to me and I click 'Next' in System Restore I only see
about 4
restore points when there should be more. Normally when I click next I get
the
'Confirm Restore Point' screen.

James