System Restore error

[Bishoop]

WinXP Pro/SP1 all current updates.

When I click on the System Restore tab in System Properties I get the
following RUNDLL error box:


An exception occurred while trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
"C:\System32\sysdm.cpl",System"


If I go into Component Services and try to start the System Restore service
I get the following:

Could not start the System Restore Service service on Local Computer.

Error 3: The system cannot find the path specifiec.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Bishoop]

I ran sfc /scannow.

I first noticed this problem after making an image of the system partition,
installing the image on a new, larger HDD, and installing it back in the
original machine with no other hardware changes.

I hadn't tired to access System Restore for several weeks before moving to
the new HDD.

Bishoop wrote:
|| WinXP Pro/SP1 all current updates.
||
|| When I click on the System Restore tab in System Properties I get the
|| following RUNDLL error box:
||
||
|| An exception occurred while trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
|| "C:\System32\sysdm.cpl",System"
||
||
|| If I go into Component Services and try to start the System Restore
|| service I get the following:
||
|| Could not start the System Restore Service service on Local Computer.
||
|| Error 3: The system cannot find the path specifiec.
||
|| Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi,
try this:-
The command-line parameter is case sensitive: Try this:

1. Insert the Windows XP CD
2. Click Start > Run
3. Type the following command and press Enter
"rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\Windows\Inf\sr.inf"
[Case Sensitive]

System Restore core files should be reinstalled.

Alternately, you may also open Windows Explorer, navigate to
"C:\Windows\Inf" folder and right-click sr.inf (choose Install) (sr.inf
shows up as sr in windows explorer)
regards,
ssg MS MVP
pronetworks.org

 

[Bishoop]

"rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\Windows\Inf\sr.inf" in the Run
window did it.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

S.Sengupta wrote:
|| Hi,
|| try this:-
|| The command-line parameter is case sensitive: Try this:
||
|| 1. Insert the Windows XP CD
|| 2. Click Start > Run
|| 3. Type the following command and press Enter
|| "rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\Windows\Inf\sr.inf"
|| [Case Sensitive]
||
|| System Restore core files should be reinstalled.
||
|| Alternately, you may also open Windows Explorer, navigate to
|| "C:\Windows\Inf" folder and right-click sr.inf (choose Install)
|| (sr.inf shows up as sr in windows explorer)
|| regards,
|| ssg MS MVP
|| pronetworks.org
||
||
|| Bishoop wrote:
||| I ran sfc /scannow.
|||
||| I first noticed this problem after making an image of the system
||| partition, installing the image on a new, larger HDD, and
||| installing it back in the original machine with no other hardware
||| changes.
|||
||| I hadn't tired to access System Restore for several weeks before
||| moving to the new HDD.
|||
||| Bishoop wrote:
||||| WinXP Pro/SP1 all current updates.
|||||
||||| When I click on the System Restore tab in System Properties I get
||||| the following RUNDLL error box:
|||||
|||||
||||| An exception occurred while trying to run
||||| "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\System32\sysdm.cpl",System"
|||||
|||||
||||| If I go into Component Services and try to start the System
||||| Restore service I get the following:
|||||
||||| Could not start the System Restore Service service on Local
||||| Computer.
|||||
||||| Error 3: The system cannot find the path specifiec.
|||||
||||| Thanks in advance for any help.