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Disable System Restore
My system restore seems to be automatically disabling.
That is, I go into System Properties - Performance - File System - Troubleshooting, and I UNcheck the Disable System Restore box - Apply - and Restart. But when I then return to Troubleshooting, the box is checked again. Any idea what this means and what I should do? Many thanks, Moe |
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Moe,
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 process monitor such as WinTop or TaskInfo or by using MSInfo32 (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 [2001-2004] wrote: My system restore seems to be automatically disabling. That is, I go into System Properties - Performance - File System - Troubleshooting, and I UNcheck the Disable System Restore box - Apply - and Restart. But when I then return to Troubleshooting, the box is checked again. Any idea what this means and what I should do? Many thanks, Moe |
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