SYSTEM RESTORE

[Barry Karas]

System Restore doesn't work. I can open it fine. [Start - All Programs
- Accessories - System Tools - System Restore]. However, I cannot move
the month or year, so I cannot access restore points that I made last
year.

What is going on here and how can I fix things?

Thank you.

Barry Karas

P.S. I have WinXP with S.P.2.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

By design restore points older than 90 days are deleted.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Barry,

For additional information on System Restore take at look at this page.
Description of System Restore
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html

 

[Barry Karas]

How would I set System Restore to save restore points older than 90
days - let's say up to a year?

And can I set System Restore to automatically save every week, instead
of every day? If so, how?

Barry Karas
*********************************************************************************************
By design restore points older than 90 days are deleted.

 

[M and D]

Frequently Asked Questions Regarding System Restore in Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/faqsrwxp.mspx

Symantec Norton Ghost 10
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/backup_recovery/ghost10/index.html

Acronis True Image 9
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

Image for Windows
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/imagew.html

Steven

How would I set System Restore to save restore points older than 90
days - let's say up to a year?

And can I set System Restore to automatically save every week, instead
of every day? If so, how?

Barry Karas
*********************************************************************************************
By design restore points older than 90 days are deleted.
--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

System Restore doesn't work. I can open it fine. [Start - All Programs
- Accessories - System Tools - System Restore]. However, I cannot move
the month or year, so I cannot access restore points that I made last
year.

What is going on here and how can I fix things?

Thank you.

Barry Karas

P.S. I have WinXP with S.P.2.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Barry,

Changing the amount of days restore points stored can be changed by
editing the registry.

But this is a very bad idea. Restoring back that far would revert every
setting made, and corrupt any application installed after the restore
point being restored to.

A better approach would be to create an image of the partitions.

Acronis True Image
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org

How would I set System Restore to save restore points older than 90
days - let's say up to a year?

And can I set System Restore to automatically save every week, instead
of every day? If so, how?

Barry Karas
*********************************************************************************************
By design restore points older than 90 days are deleted.

System Restore doesn't work. I can open it fine. [Start - All
Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Restore]. However, I
cannot move the month or year, so I cannot access restore points
that I made last year.

What is going on here and how can I fix things?

Thank you.

Barry Karas

P.S. I have WinXP with S.P.2.