System Restore is gone

[Badger]

My wife has an HP Pavilion Notebook running XP Home.
Yesterday she tried to restore her machine to an earlier date and got an
error message saying "framedyn.dll cannot be found". We checked and the file
was right where it was supposed to be, (based on the fact that it was in the
same folder as it is on my computer). We tried replacing it with my copy of
framedyn.dll but got the same result.
Then came the crunch. I tried checking that System Restore was turned on on
her machine and found that System/Properties had no System Restore tab at
all. It seems to have disappeared from her machine altogether!
A Google of past news posts on the subject came up with suggestions to run
Scanreg/Fix. Forget it, Scanreg is not recognised as a command. Another
suggestion was to install from sr.inf. Couldn't do that either.
Any thoughts, help suggestions (other than those above) would be much
appreciated. She does NOT want to format and start again!
TIA
Badger

 

[Rich Barry]

Take a look at Kelly's. http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
Select S and scroll to SysRestore.

 

[Badger]

Take a look at Kelly's. http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
Select S and scroll to SysRestore.

Thank you, I will try that.
Badger

 

[Alex Nichol]

My wife has an HP Pavilion Notebook running XP Home.
Yesterday she tried to restore her machine to an earlier date and got an
error message saying "framedyn.dll cannot be found". We checked and the file
was right where it was supposed to be, (based on the fact that it was in the
same folder as it is on my computer). We tried replacing it with my copy of
framedyn.dll but got the same result.
Then came the crunch. I tried checking that System Restore was turned on on
her machine and found that System/Properties had no System Restore tab at
all. It seems to have disappeared from her machine altogether!

What appears to happen is that the path SR uses to get at framedyn.dll
gets damaged, so it not longer looks in the place where it is. It may
well recover if you copy the file up out of windows\system32\wbem into
windows\system32 to have it in both

 

[Robert Basler]

Don't know if this will help or not, but it seems to me the probelm you
describe was one of the many I had.

http://www.aurora-systems.com/robon/WindowsSystemRestore.html

 

[S.Sengupta]

Hi Badger,
Copy the framedyn.dll file from the \windows\system32\wbem directory to
the \windows\system32 directory

regards,
ssg MS-MVP
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