system restore will not work

[Ric]

Last Saturday was the last time that System Restore worked for me.
Counterspy set a restore point before doing its thing. Since then I havn't
been able to create a restore point all week. I'm running XP home edition.
This is what pops up when I try to create a restore point.
System Restore is unable to create a resore point. Please restart the
computer, and then run System Restore again.

Restarting will not help.
Any suggestions on how to get this back in working order?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Restore points can become corrupted, often (but not always) due to a virus
or spyware infection. In this case, the only thing you can do is to delete
all restore points and start fresh. You delete all restore points by turning
system restore off on all drives, rebooting and then turning system restore
on again.

 

[d01178]

Last Saturday was the last time that System Restore worked for me.
Counterspy set a restore point before doing its thing. Since then I havn't
been able to create a restore point all week. I'm running XP home edition.
This is what pops up when I try to create a restore point.
System Restore is unable to create a resore point. Please restart the
computer, and then run System Restore again.

Restarting will not help.
Any suggestions on how to get this back in working order?

Troubleshooters in this link
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/plan/faqsrwxp.mspx