XP Professional "migranes"

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irism9

There are 29 automatically created system restore points
in my XP Professional. I have ordered, asked, begged,
implored! my system, to restore to an earlier time. This,
using the System Restore Wizard, of course. It did it
before! It starts, works, and does everything as if
restoring, until after restarting. Then, it shows me the
great "Restoration imcomplete. Your computer can not
be restored to (here, restore point date). No changes have
been made".
 
This wont be much help now but might be to others..if you
dont select enough space to restore to then windows cant
get all the info it needs to make the point
possable..So..instead of haveing alot of little restore
points you only need one major one..ie..makeing a big
change?..Use all the ????mb to restore from..delete the
old one..make your change..if you like what you then
restore it again and delete the old one..
 
Anonymous????

There is no way to manipulate system restore in the manor you suggest. I
would suggest you explore the possibilities a bit further and don't offer BS
for advise in the future.

JAX
 
JAX??? ide suggest you explore the fact period..youve the
ability to turn on and off sys restore and use it like it
should be used..ie: turn it on, make a point, turn it
off..The file will NOT delete itself..So dont come in here
flamming on someone when you are in dark.
 
Anonymous,

There is no flame. You are completely ignorant of how SR works and how to
use it. If you turn SR off, all restore points are deleted. Read a bit about
it!

JAX
 
hmmmm..So i guess the one i keep in a bakup folder isnt
really there?..I think you need another beer to boost your
ego somemore..Morons like you should only use barbie linux.
 
| hmmmm..So i guess the one i keep in a bakup folder isnt
| really there?..I think you need another beer to boost your
| ego somemore..Morons like you should only use barbie linux.
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Anonymous,
| >
| >There is no flame. You are completely ignorant of how SR
| works and how to
| >use it. If you turn SR off, all restore points are
| deleted. Read a bit about
| >it!
| >
| >JAX
| >
| >| >> JAX??? ide suggest you explore the fact period..youve
| the
| >> ability to turn on and off sys restore and use it like
| it
| >> should be used..ie: turn it on, make a point, turn it
| >> off..The file will NOT delete itself..So dont come in
| here
| >> flamming on someone when you are in dark.
| >> >-----Original Message-----
| >> >Anonymous????
| >> >
| >> >There is no way to manipulate system restore in the
| manor
| >> you suggest. I
| >> >would suggest you explore the possibilities a bit
| further
| >> and don't offer BS
| >> >for advise in the future.
| >> >
| >> >JAX



Jax is perfectly correct.

There is no way to selectively delete, move, replace or otherwise manipulate
restore points.

They are not accessible to the user in this manner by design. This is the
reason, for instance that if an infected file gets included in a restore
point the only solution is to turn off system restore (which *does* delete
*all* restore points) and then turn it back on as referenced in the article
here from Symantec;

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...2001111912274039?OpenDocument&src=sec_doc_nam

You'll notice that among other things it states "By default, Windows
prevents System Restore from being modified by outside programs." This
includes Windows Explorer. Disk Cleanup does provide the option to delete
all but the most recent restore point.

Here's a nice FAQ so that you may educate yourself.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/faqsrwxp.mspx

Don't ya just hate it when you get all high & mighty, slinging insults and
turn out to be just plain wrong..? ;-)

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Please use your own best judgment before implementing any suggestions or
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