xp won't restore and shuts down

[gary]

In an effort to rid my machine of ad and spyware, I
recently tried to restored to a prior date (which I have
done several times in the last 6 mos.) THe machine acts as
though it is restoring, but after a couple of minutes the
machine goes into the windows is shutting down mode, then
the restore bar reappears, then the machine finally shuts
down without completing the restore function. I do not
know why all of a sudden the machine shuts down during a
restore. I ran a virus scan and came up clean.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

That kind of error would suggest that System Restore has one or more corrupt files in it. You can turn SR off/on again, but you will lose any existing checkpoints:

Right click My Computer, select Properties and then the System Restore tab. Enable 'Turn off System Restore on all drives' and reboot your PC. After that 1st reboot go back into SR and disable 'Turn off System Restore on all drives' and reboot your PC again. After that 2nd reboot you should one new SR checkpoint.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| In an effort to rid my machine of ad and spyware, I
| recently tried to restored to a prior date (which I have
| done several times in the last 6 mos.) THe machine acts as
| though it is restoring, but after a couple of minutes the
| machine goes into the windows is shutting down mode, then
| the restore bar reappears, then the machine finally shuts
| down without completing the restore function. I do not
| know why all of a sudden the machine shuts down during a
| restore. I ran a virus scan and came up clean.