System Restore Problem

[Athanasian_Creed]

Greetings all,

I hope you are able to shed some light on how to fix a problem i haven't a
clue on what to do.

First off, i'm running Vista Home Premium with SP-1 installed and all
subsequent updates installed.

Problem is, i've somehow lost the ability to access System Restore. I had
been using it prior to the install of SP-1 and am now using a program called
'Rollback RX' which is a much more thorough program similiar to SR. I would
like to shut down SR since it is taking up valuable disk space and is
redundant now that Rollback RX is installed and working OK but everytime i
click on the icon i created on my desktop, it gives me a message saying
something to the effect of 'System Restore Service is running' however, the
SR program does not open up. This has been the case ever since SP-1 was
installed. If i go into 'My Computer', 'Properties' and click on System
Protection, i get the SR screen BUT all it shows is it is scanning/analysing
disks - it stays that way.

Googling the problem did not help any - my next step would be to start Vista
in 'Safe Mode' and try to open the icon on my desktop that way OR go into
'system32' file, find 'rstrui.exe' file and try to open it that way. Would
you think that would solve my problem or is there another way to close down
SR??

I'm stumped and looking to the wisdom of the gurus in this newsgroup for
whatever help you can provide me.

TIA,


Ray

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

Greetings all,

I hope you are able to shed some light on how to fix a problem i haven't a
clue on what to do.

First off, i'm running Vista Home Premium with SP-1 installed and all
subsequent updates installed.

Problem is, i've somehow lost the ability to access System Restore. I had
been using it prior to the install of SP-1 and am now using a program called
'Rollback RX' which is a much more thorough program similiar to SR. I would
like to shut down SR since it is taking up valuable disk space and is
redundant now that Rollback RX is installed and working OK but everytime i
click on the icon i created on my desktop, it gives me a message saying
something to the effect of 'System Restore Service is running' however, the
SR program does not open up. This has been the case ever since SP-1 was
installed. If i go into 'My Computer', 'Properties' and click on System
Protection, i get the SR screen BUT all it shows is it is scanning/analysing
disks - it stays that way.

Googling the problem did not help any - my next step would be to start Vista
in 'Safe Mode' and try to open the icon on my desktop that way OR go into
'system32' file, find 'rstrui.exe' file and try to open it that way. Would
you think that would solve my problem or is there another way to close down
SR??

I'm stumped and looking to the wisdom of the gurus in this newsgroup for
whatever help you can provide me.

TIA,


Ray

If I'm not mistaken, you will have to turn off the System Restore
Services. I also believe this would not be possible without using the
Group Policy Editor, or a third-party tweaker such as "VistaVI", from
http://www.totalidea.com


Donald L McDaniel
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[Athanasian Creed]

If I'm not mistaken, you will have to turn off the System Restore
Services. I also believe this would not be possible without using the
Group Policy Editor, or a third-party tweaker such as "VistaVI", from
http://www.totalidea.com


Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the correct thread and article.
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Thanks Donald for the reply - i do have 'Vista VI' installed but could
not find anywhere in the program to turn off System Restore. I checked
services but could not find anything to do with SR.

Now a new problem, whenever the system tries to update my system, it
creates a new SR point. Except that it takes forever and a day for it
to do so...on and on and on it says "creating restore point"

Oooooooyyyyyyyy!



Ray

 

[Athanasian Creed]

:

Try, friend:
Control Panel/System/System Protection Tab


You MUST turn off System Restore for EACH physical drive there are
restore points on.

Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the correct thread and article.
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Donald,

Tried that several times, each time it hangs on 'analysing disks'. System
Restore & create restore point buttons inoperable.



Ray

 

[Athanasian Creed]

To get system restore working apply the registry patch below... tested

'RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting'
(http://rapidshare.com/files/106723046/SRFix.rar)

Steve,

I can't enter the access code - that cat thingy is annoying - i can't find
out what to type!


Ray

 

[Athanasian Creed]

Go to start : type "services.msc" without the qoutes

right click " the system restore service " and disabled it, then
restart your computer.

All done, you have disabled the system restore now !!!!

Ahmad,

I tried that, seems SR is not enabled.

*** My big problem is in updating my system via Windows Update. It TRIES
to create a SR point but justs gets stuck at the 'creating SR point' without
creating one and, as a result, doesn't download/install update! ***


Ray

 

[Athanasian Creed]

Steve,

I can't enter the access code - that cat thingy is annoying - i can't find
out what to type!


Ray

OK, i got the .reg file but when i right click on file and select 'merge'
all it does is open up the file in Notepad. It doesn't merge it into the
registry.

Is this reg fix VISTA compatible??


TIA,


Ray

 

[Athanasian Creed]

OK, got the .reg file merged via regedit->import but SR still doesn't work!!!!

BTW, i'm running Vista SP-1.



Ray