system restore question 2

it gets better...to thos wanthing to know whats this
about..go read my other post called 'restore files
question and AVERT question' which mike m answered.

anyway i found its aready at disabled(i still have 1.18gb
in resstore/temp) thus i enabled it restarted, went back
to disenable it and found its aready disabled.....i think
its by defult and unchagably on disabled....im still at a
loss of wat to do......

i kinda need those 1.18 gigs asap......tq

If you are unable to uncheck the box "Disable System Restore" it would
appear that either the state manager's control files are damaged or that
the state manager is not running. What follows should help you resolve
the problem.

System Restore Problems:

If you cannot uncheck the disable SR entry found at System | Performance |
File System | Troubleshooting check the following:
Do you have at least 300MB of free space on the drive containing your
windows folder?
Is the *StateMgr entry still present and checked in MSConfig | Startup?
Is stmgr.exe running? You can check this using either a Task Manager such
as WinTop or TaskInfo or by using MSInfo32 (or Start | Help & Support |
System Information) and checking for stmgr.exe in the section Software
Environment | Running Tasks.

If all of the above are OK then I think that the best way forward would be
to remove the _RESTORE folder and allow the state manager to rebuild the
necessary control files which have probably become corrupted.
Delete the folder as follows:
a) Boot to DOS using a floppy. Do NOT choose "Minimal Boot" from the menu
when booting from a floppy but rather choose "Start computer with (or
without) CD-ROM support" otherwise the ATTRIB command will not be
available.
b) At the DOS A:\ prompt, type:

ATTRIB -H -S -R C:\_RESTORE
then
REN C:\_RESTORE OLDREST

c) Remove the floppy
d) Reboot your PC
e) Delete the folder C:\OLDREST
f) Check that an automatic system restore checkpoint was created.
g) Finally adjust the space allocated to the restore folder:
System | Performance | File System | Hard Disk and adjust the restore
slider to your preferred setting. A figure of 200MB is normally more
than adequate for day to day use allowing perhaps a week of checkpoints to
be available although increasing this to perhaps 400MB for a few days
during periods of large installs such Microsoft Office is advisable.

It might now be a good time to test that system restore is working
correctly.
You can do this by performing the following test.
a) Create a shortcut on your desktop to a file.
b) Create a manual checkpoint
Could you create a checkpoint?
c) Delete the shortcut
d) Restore your PC to the checkpoint you created.
Was the shortcut restored? Did you see any error messages?
e) Reboot your PC
Was the checkpoint retained?
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Zavia wrote:

it gets better...to thos wanthing to know whats this
about..go read my other post called 'restore files
question and AVERT question' which mike m answered.

anyway i found its aready at disabled(i still have 1.18gb
in resstore/temp) thus i enabled it restarted, went back
to disenable it and found its aready disabled.....i think
its by defult and unchagably on disabled....im still at a
loss of wat to do......

i kinda need those 1.18 gigs asap......tq

System Restore Problems:

If you cannot uncheck the disable SR entry found at
System | Performance |
File System | Troubleshooting check the following:
Do you have at least 300MB of free space on the drive
containing your windows folder?

can u rephrase that? i ahve bout 600mb left on my system

Is the *StateMgr entry still present and checked in
MSConfig | Startup?
disabled it a while back...but it aint on the msconfig
area...i disabled it with geek superhero(getright website).
ill enable it and try again.....

Is stmgr.exe running? You can check this using either a
Task Manager such
as WinTop or TaskInfo or by using MSInfo32 (or Start |
Help & Support | System Information) and checking for
stmgr.exe in the section Software

the *statemaneger is present and listed(doest tell me if
its on or not) but is using system/restore/statemgr.exe
not STMGR.exe...STMGR.exe is in the same place btw.

Environment | Running Tasks.

If all of the above are OK then I think that the best way
forward would be
to remove the _RESTORE folder and allow the state manager
to rebuild the
necessary control files which have probably become
corrupted.
Delete the folder as follows:
a) Boot to DOS using a floppy. Do NOT choose "Minimal
Boot" from the menu

how to get to that?

reenabled the thing with geek superhero and it
works....put it to 400 mb, restarted....checked...now have
2 gigs space......also the restore/temp is taking 14.1 mb
only.....big change.....oh well....tq man

If you choose to uncheck the *StateMgr entry in MSConfig | Startup it
should come as no surprise to you then that the state manager isn't
running and therefore that you have a build up of files in the _RESTORE
archive or that you cannot use the GUI to alter the space allocated to the
store. I can only ASSume that you didn't appreciate the consequences of
what you were doing when you unchecked that entry.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP




wrote:

System Restore Problems:

If you cannot uncheck the disable SR entry found at
System | Performance |
File System | Troubleshooting check the following:
Do you have at least 300MB of free space on the drive
containing your windows folder?

can u rephrase that? i ahve bout 600mb left on my system

Is the *StateMgr entry still present and checked in
MSConfig | Startup?
disabled it a while back...but it aint on the msconfig
area...i disabled it with geek superhero(getright website).
ill enable it and try again.....

Is stmgr.exe running? You can check this using either a Task
Manager such as WinTop or TaskInfo or by using MSInfo32 (or Start |
Help & Support | System Information) and checking for
stmgr.exe in the section Software

the *statemaneger is present and listed(doest tell me if
its on or not) but is using system/restore/statemgr.exe
not STMGR.exe...STMGR.exe is in the same place btw.

Environment | Running Tasks.

If all of the above are OK then I think that the best way forward
would be to remove the _RESTORE folder and allow the state manager
to rebuild the necessary control files which have probably become
corrupted. Delete the folder as follows:
a) Boot to DOS using a floppy. Do NOT choose "Minimal Boot" from
the menu

how to get to that?