System Restore will not start

[Guest]

When I click on System Restore in XPPro, a blank "System Restore" screen
briefly flashes and then disappears.

I think I've tried everything that Bert Kinney suggests at his very helpful
site ( http://bertk.mvps.org ): I have SP2 loaded, SR is enabled, there's
plenty of disk space, Task Manager etc seem to be running. And I know I've
been able to use it in the past.

Any ideas?

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Peter,

Have you tried running System Restore in Safe Mode?

1. Restart your computer, and then press F8 during the initial startup to
start your computer in Safe Mode or Safe Mode with a command prompt.

2. Log on to your computer with an administrator account or with an account
that has administrator credentials.

3. In Safe Mode type or paste the following command in the Start - Run box
then press Enter. In Safe Mode Command Prompt type the following command then
press ENTER.

%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

4. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen to restore your computer
to an earlier state, or undo the last restore if available.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Bert. I'll give that a try. Meanwhile, I seem to have lost my sound!
(No idea if that's related or not.) One crisis at a time: That's my motto.

 

[Guest]

Well, it LOOKED like that was going to be the solution. Managed to get
System Restore going in Safe mode, chose a restore point a few days back
(when everything was running fine), but now get the Error Message, "System
Restore Application has encountered a problem and needs to close." Sigh.

Any other thoughts?

 

[Guest]

OK, I think I've solved the problem ... without (as usual) knowing what
caused it in the first place:

Thanks to another thread, I was reminded that I had a month-old ERUNT
registry backup. I was able to roll back to that one and VOILA - System
Registry is now working fine, plus I have my Volume control back. Further
proof that ERUNT is way better than System Restore!

What might have caused the problem? Perhaps a little program called
Cyberhawk, which I'd recently installed ... but no proof either way.

Anyway, thanks - Bert - for the help and the great website.

 

[Lem]

OK, I think I've solved the problem ... without (as usual) knowing what
caused it in the first place:

Thanks to another thread, I was reminded that I had a month-old ERUNT
registry backup. I was able to roll back to that one and VOILA - System
Registry is now working fine, plus I have my Volume control back. Further
proof that ERUNT is way better than System Restore!

What might have caused the problem? Perhaps a little program called
Cyberhawk, which I'd recently installed ... but no proof either way.

Anyway, thanks - Bert - for the help and the great website.

Note to self: make ERUNT backups more frequently.