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Old June 3rd 05, 03:57 AM
Steve Z.
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Deleting the wininit. files from the WINDOWS folder worked. Don't know why
they were there---but then I didn't know that they weren't supposed to be
there. I had done a disk check/repair and defrag, but guess it didn't catch
them as mistakes. Anyway, I was able to do a restore after taking your
advice. I could only go back to theprevious week, but it appears to at least
work, now.

Thanks!

"Mike M" wrote:

It might help you if you unhide the file extensions for known files.
Windows Explorer | Folder Options | View and uncheck the box "hide
extensions for known file types". I'm intrigued as to your having
"wininit (text file)" as I can't see any reason for having a file
named wininit.txt. Personally I feel you should delete all the files you
list except for wininit.exe and then reboot. Now check again and see what
wininit files are present.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Steve Z. wrote:

BTW: I did the SCANREG /FIX, restarted the machine, and when I tried
"restore", I got the same "Error Message: System Restore Cannot Run
Until You Restart the Computer" message.