System restore wont restore.

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Doug

When I chose a restore point it goes thru the whole process and then says
cant restore and to try a different restore point. None of the restore
points will restore the system to their point of time? HELP.........
 
Doug said:
When I chose a restore point it goes thru the whole process and then
says cant restore and to try a different restore point. None of the
restore points will restore the system to their point of time?
HELP.........
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Sorry Doug, but this is a sign that the system restore files are corrupted
and rendered useless (it happens).
You need to shut off system restore and reboot, then turn SR back on
and reboot a second time,this second reboot is to see that SR will
automatically create a restore point.All of your restore points will be lost
but as you have said they don't work anyway.

I have started to do this every so often when I know my system is ok just to
flush out the files because you really don't know if they are corrupted
until you need to use it, and then it is too late.
 
Hi Doug

That error message would suggest that one or more of the System Restore
files have become corrupt. You can try turning SR off/on, although you will
lose all existing checkpoints:

Right click on My Computer and select Properties>System Restore. Enable
'Turn off System Restore on all drives' - then reboot your PC. Go back into
SR and disable 'Turn off...' and then reboot again. After the second reboot
you should have one new checkpoint and SR should work properly after that.

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Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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Thanks for the help...

Will Denny said:
Hi Doug

That error message would suggest that one or more of the System Restore
files have become corrupt. You can try turning SR off/on, although you
will
lose all existing checkpoints:

Right click on My Computer and select Properties>System Restore. Enable
'Turn off System Restore on all drives' - then reboot your PC. Go back
into
SR and disable 'Turn off...' and then reboot again. After the second
reboot
you should have one new checkpoint and SR should work properly after that.

--


Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups
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