System Restore Won't

[vzlion]

What will cause a restore point that works one time not to work
another? TIA.

 

[vzlion]

What will cause a restore point that works one time not to work
another? TIA.

I shoult add that I'm running XP SP3 with 2gb ram. No known virus or
malware. And a additional question, will a corrupted restore point
affect previous good restore points. Or would the restore point
program its self have to be corrupted? Sorry about not getting this
all in one post.

 

[Mark Adams]

What will cause a restore point that works one time not to work
another? TIA.

Anti-virus or Internet Security suites sometimes disable System Restore.
Various types of malware can do this as well.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

A hijackware infection.

 

[smlunatick]

Anti-virus or Internet Security suites sometimes disable System Restore.
Various types of malware can do this as well.

Especially most Norton versions. They consider this a "threat" to
their (Norton) software.

 

[Jose]

What will cause a restore point that works one time not to work
another? TIA.

Without details - like an error or informative message, you will only
receive guesses.

 

[Robert Lee]

Sometimes the system restore points become too old and don't work any more.

But I wonder if your problem is related to the more common problem: namely,
that none of the system restore points (other than ones which you have
created) work at all. If you are using Norton Antivirus, that's caused by a
setting in the antivirus software entitled "Protect my Symantec Product".
The box for that option has to be unchecked for the system restore points to
work.

 

[vzlion]

Sometimes the system restore points become too old and don't work any more.

But I wonder if your problem is related to the more common problem: namely,
that none of the system restore points (other than ones which you have
created) work at all. If you are using Norton Antivirus, that's caused by a
setting in the antivirus software entitled "Protect my Symantec Product".
The box for that option has to be unchecked for the system restore points to
work.

Thanks for the replies guys. I don't use anything Norton. I've tried
several restore points none worked. The last one I tried was a TEST
restore point that did work. No error message, just the 'can't
restore, nothing was changed' message. The restore point was two weeks
old. I suspect I've picked up something that the MalwareBytes, AVG and
Defender haven't been able to pickup. Thanks