System Restore not creating restore points

[Charlie C.]

When I opened System Restore today, I noticed that my
laptop had stopped creating restore points. Usually, there
would be several dates with automatically created restore
points going back a week or two.

I looked at the "System" entries in Control Panel. System
Restore was activated, and it had the maximum setting
(most room allocated on the hard drive) for creating and
saving restore points. I could manually create a restore
point without problems... but the automatic creation of
restore points has stopped.

How can I tell Windows (my version is XP Home, with all
critical updates and service packs installed) to get back
to work and do these automatically? Thanks.

 

[NaresH KumaR]

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_sysrestorepoint.htm

 

[Alex Nichol]

When I opened System Restore today, I noticed that my
laptop had stopped creating restore points. Usually, there
would be several dates with automatically created restore
points going back a week or two.

I looked at the "System" entries in Control Panel. System
Restore was activated, and it had the maximum setting
(most room allocated on the hard drive) for creating and
saving restore points. I could manually create a restore
point without problems... but the automatic creation of
restore points has stopped.

Check whether the Task scheduler service has been stopped - it is needed
for automatic SR to operate, even though that does not show as a
scheduled task. Control Panel, Scheduled tasks, look in the Advanced
menu and if it says 'Start Using', click that so it says 'Stop using'

Also automatic points depend on there being some time during the day
when nothing is going on for a few minutes. If you have a background
'CPU soaking up' job like Seti@home, that will prevent it running, and
you will have to do it manually

 

[yuzr]

Task scheduler service... needed for automatic SR
--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)

Thanks for the secret.
(Said dependency relationship is unknown to services.msc.
XP Pro SP2)