System Restore repeatedly fails

[Guest]

Beginning yesterday I have had a number of problems, for example, playing
DVDs. After trying several fixes, I attempted a system restore (using the
Windows system restore function). Following the directions, I chose a
bold-face date on the system restore home page calendar, which was the date
of a program download and install (Java Runtime Entertainment). I got the
"Restoring files..." status bar, and it reached 100%, after which Windows
shut down and restarted. But as soon as I signed in, I got a screen saying
the system restore could not be accomplished because no change had been made
to my computer. I tried three other bold-face dates, with the same result.
Prior to these attempts, I had run Panda Active-scan anti-virus from
Panda's Website; no viruses. Also, Lavasoft Ad-Aware revealed ten
data-miners (typical), which I quarantined. I also ran a defrag, and
uninstalled and reinstalled WinDVD (which still doesn't work right).
Can you suggest anything? Thank you very much.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

One or more of the System Restore files could have been corrupted - try
turning SR off/on - but I'm afraid that you will lose any existing
checkpoints:

Right click My Computer, select Properties and then the System Restore tab.
Enable 'Turn off System Restore on all drives' and reboot your PC. After
that 1st reboot go back into SR and disable 'Turn off System Restore on all
drives' and reboot your PC again. After that 2nd reboot you should have one
new SR checkpoint.

 

[johnf]

It may also be very interesting & enlightening to find out exactly what the
"After trying several fixes" comprised of.
I have a feeling there may have been some major/critical deletions included
in there somewhere.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for the suggestion; I did it, but I will have to wait for a future
need to restore to find out whether it will work, since as you said, I lost
all the existing restore points.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your response; they were just the ones I mentioned in my
question, plus removing two programs (Java Runtime Entertainment and
Quicktime, because I thought either might be contributing to my DVD-playing
problems), and changing the default program for playing DVDs and for a few
other file extensions.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

You create a manual checkpoint and then test that one.

 

[Guest]

I just remembered I had also run TweakNow RegCleaner and out of the several
suggested deletions, I only made the one it said was completely safe.

 

[Guest]

I have just done so, and it seems to be working fine!