System restore fault

[NEIL SUTHERLAND]

The system restore facility on my XP Professional SP 2 does not seem to be
making any restore points. I have tried to install them manually but the
following day they have all disappeared. Has anyone else had this problem?
What is the answer?

 

[lvee]

you should find an answer in here,
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/plan/faqsrwxp.mspx
System Restore FAQ

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Neil,

Here are some troubleshooting tips for System Restore in Windows XP.

Go to Start - Run and type eventvwr.msc and press enter.
Click on System in the left pane.
Click the gray title “Source” at the top of the source name column in the right pane to
sort by source name, look for "sr" and "srservice".
Double click on each of these events, then click on the button below the two arrows in the
upper right corner. This will copy the event information to the clipboard. Paste the
information for each of the two event here. This will help us in diagnosing the problem.

System Restore fails to create an automatic restore point:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srauto.html