System Restore problem

My system Restore stopped automatically recording restore points. I flushed
the SR disk and the system recorded a system check point deleting all the old
restore points. However, after 20 hours of computer time no automatic check
points are being created. I tried a manual check point and the calender
indicates that a point has been created. I did notice that the disk space is
set at 4675 mb and when I try to increase the mb by moving the slide to the
right it will not move and displays "insufficient disk space". Appreciate
suggestions.
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Junior FM

There is no need to further increase the space allocated to the system
restore archive, 200-500MB is probably more than adequate for most
purposes. Lack of space isn't however the problem as you have
demonstrated that you can create a manual checkpoint.

Lack of automatic system created checkpoints:
There can be many reasons for lack of regular automatic system created
checkpoints including running programs such as seti@home, folding@home or
other similar programs, or because a background application is fooling Win
Me's state manager.exe into thinking that the system is not idle although
this is not in fact the case. Examples of the latter utility include v4
of MotherBoardMonitor (but not v5), Cacheman, The Cleaner (TCActive and
TCMonitor) and Norton's System Doctor where users have reported use of the
Disk Health sensor has prevented the creation of automatic checkpoints.
NAV7 has also been reported as causing similar problems in certain
circumstances. Other users have reported similar behaviour due to their
always on cable or ADSL connection continually polling their HD and thus
giving the impression that the system is never idle.

A significant number of users report that 3.x versions of Zone Alarm also
prevent the creation of automatic checkpoints but this didn't seem to
affect all ZA users including myself for a long time but my Win Me system
stopped making automatic checkpoints some time ago however now that it has
ZA Pro 5.xxx this problem seems to have been resolved. Similar problems
have been experienced by BlackIce users and other software firewalls have
also been reported to cause some users similar problems.

One user has reported that B's CLIP UDF packet writing software
(http://www.bhacorp.com/products/clip/clip.html) prevented the creation of
automatic checkpoints and another that they had experienced the same
problem with Roxio's DirectCD. Another user has also reported that
CookieWall by AnalogX will prevent automatic checkpoints being made if its
"Scan for cookies every .... seconds" is set to a value less than 121
seconds (two minutes).
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP



JuniorFM wrote:

My system Restore stopped automatically recording restore points. I
flushed the SR disk and the system recorded a system check point
deleting all the old restore points. However, after 20 hours of
computer time no automatic check points are being created. I tried a
manual check point and the calender indicates that a point has been
created. I did notice that the disk space is set at 4675 mb and when
I try to increase the mb by moving the slide to the right it will not
move and displays "insufficient disk space". Appreciate suggestions.