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System Restore Points WinMe
"Heather" wrote in message
... "webster72n" wrote in message ... "AAH" wrote in message ... C:\ Total Space 12.2 GB Used Space 4.13 GB Free Space 8.11 GB SR Space Allocated 460MB It automatically deletes the all SR points without any warning or any error message. I have tried by clearing and resetting but no luck. Any help would be appreciated. I see you are using Avast, it definitely is interfering with SR in WinME. And how do you see that?? He said he was using the old Norman one. Headers, Figgs - the only thing is that he seems to have been looking at his own headers! g -- Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006) (CrashFixPC) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk |
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Like you Mike, I'm more than a little curious as to why AHH 'routinely'
restores "last weeks? rbxxx.cab file". Why he should want to revert to a previous registry - presumably when things are working normally - and why he would want to use scanreg (/restore) to do it whilst he has System Restore to do a better job, escapes me. As you say Mike, he's undoing all or any changes he has made to the system during the course of the week including quite possibly data (definitions) used by his AV application. The whole exercise seems fraught with hurdles and potential problems - perhaps this could even be the cause of his new problem. I'm not saying that scanreg doesn't have its uses - it can often be the final get-out-of-jail card if all else fails - nor SR for that matter, but to run it routinely for no apparent reason seems to be, well - "curious". Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... Firstly, Something has changed otherwise the problem would always have existed. If you were to create a checkpoint now and then reboot would the checkpoint still be present? If still present how long does it last before it gets flushed? Out of curiosity why do you restore the registry each week using the backup created by scanreg? I find this most odd and means that you are undoing all or any changes you have made to the system during the course of the week including quite possibly data used by your AV application. Does the problem persist if you temporarily disable or remove SuperAntiSpyware? -- Mike Maltby AAH wrote: More information required. For example when are the SR checkpoints being deleted? On boot up or at some other time? What It could be either on bootup or shutdown Cannot 100 percent pinpoint. changes have you made to your system since system restore was working correctly? NO Changes. The only thing I do once a week is to restopre the rbxxx.cab file The only software which may cause some irritation is to my memory -- SUPERAntiSpyware--- Can you still create a manual checkpoint? If you reboot after making a manual checkpoint is the checkpoint retained? Can you restore to a manual checkpoint you made earlier? On reset it creates the point during the first boot. and any manual point remains in tact during the boot process. Both type of points can be restored but very slow. |
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It is certainly curious! That's the word that came to my mind - though
whether you put it there is moot. But - possibly pedantically - I would wish to point out that, if it is just the registry he wants to revert, Scanreg does a much better job than SR as, all else being equal, SR doesn't restore case and you are quite likely to end up with lots of files with all uppercase names after using it, which is in the same ballpark as reading ng/forum posts or email typed in all caps. Except it's not on the world-wide interossiter, it's on your own computer (that Microsoft generously allows you to operate). Shane Mart wrote: Like you Mike, I'm more than a little curious as to why AHH 'routinely' restores "last weeks? rbxxx.cab file". Why he should want to revert to a previous registry - presumably when things are working normally - and why he would want to use scanreg (/restore) to do it whilst he has System Restore to do a better job, escapes me. As you say Mike, he's undoing all or any changes he has made to the system during the course of the week including quite possibly data (definitions) used by his AV application. The whole exercise seems fraught with hurdles and potential problems - perhaps this could even be the cause of his new problem. I'm not saying that scanreg doesn't have its uses - it can often be the final get-out-of-jail card if all else fails - nor SR for that matter, but to run it routinely for no apparent reason seems to be, well - "curious". Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... Firstly, Something has changed otherwise the problem would always have existed. If you were to create a checkpoint now and then reboot would the checkpoint still be present? If still present how long does it last before it gets flushed? Out of curiosity why do you restore the registry each week using the backup created by scanreg? I find this most odd and means that you are undoing all or any changes you have made to the system during the course of the week including quite possibly data used by your AV application. Does the problem persist if you temporarily disable or remove SuperAntiSpyware? -- Mike Maltby AAH wrote: More information required. For example when are the SR checkpoints being deleted? On boot up or at some other time? What It could be either on bootup or shutdown Cannot 100 percent pinpoint. changes have you made to your system since system restore was working correctly? NO Changes. The only thing I do once a week is to restopre the rbxxx.cab file The only software which may cause some irritation is to my memory -- SUPERAntiSpyware--- Can you still create a manual checkpoint? If you reboot after making a manual checkpoint is the checkpoint retained? Can you restore to a manual checkpoint you made earlier? On reset it creates the point during the first boot. and any manual point remains in tact during the boot process. Both type of points can be restored but very slow. |
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Shane wrote :-
I would wish to point out that, if it is just the registry he wants to revert, Scanreg does a much better job Fair point Shane, but it could cause much more serious issues if/when trying to uninstall (or even fix) something at a later date. uppercase names ... in the same ballpark as reading ng/forum posts or email typed in all caps. LOL - or should that be lol? Mart "Shane" wrote in message ... It is certainly curious! That's the word that came to my mind - though whether you put it there is moot. But - possibly pedantically - I would wish to point out that, if it is just the registry he wants to revert, Scanreg does a much better job than SR as, all else being equal, SR doesn't restore case and you are quite likely to end up with lots of files with all uppercase names after using it, which is in the same ballpark as reading ng/forum posts or email typed in all caps. Except it's not on the world-wide interossiter, it's on your own computer (that Microsoft generously allows you to operate). Shane Mart wrote: Like you Mike, I'm more than a little curious as to why AHH 'routinely' restores "last weeks? rbxxx.cab file". Why he should want to revert to a previous registry - presumably when things are working normally - and why he would want to use scanreg (/restore) to do it whilst he has System Restore to do a better job, escapes me. As you say Mike, he's undoing all or any changes he has made to the system during the course of the week including quite possibly data (definitions) used by his AV application. The whole exercise seems fraught with hurdles and potential problems - perhaps this could even be the cause of his new problem. I'm not saying that scanreg doesn't have its uses - it can often be the final get-out-of-jail card if all else fails - nor SR for that matter, but to run it routinely for no apparent reason seems to be, well - "curious". Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... Firstly, Something has changed otherwise the problem would always have existed. If you were to create a checkpoint now and then reboot would the checkpoint still be present? If still present how long does it last before it gets flushed? Out of curiosity why do you restore the registry each week using the backup created by scanreg? I find this most odd and means that you are undoing all or any changes you have made to the system during the course of the week including quite possibly data used by your AV application. Does the problem persist if you temporarily disable or remove SuperAntiSpyware? -- Mike Maltby AAH wrote: More information required. For example when are the SR checkpoints being deleted? On boot up or at some other time? What It could be either on bootup or shutdown Cannot 100 percent pinpoint. changes have you made to your system since system restore was working correctly? NO Changes. The only thing I do once a week is to restopre the rbxxx.cab file The only software which may cause some irritation is to my memory -- SUPERAntiSpyware--- Can you still create a manual checkpoint? If you reboot after making a manual checkpoint is the checkpoint retained? Can you restore to a manual checkpoint you made earlier? On reset it creates the point during the first boot. and any manual point remains in tact during the boot process. Both type of points can be restored but very slow. |
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"Noel Paton" wrote in message ... "Heather" wrote in message ... "webster72n" wrote in message ... "AAH" wrote in message ... C:\ Total Space 12.2 GB Used Space 4.13 GB Free Space 8.11 GB SR Space Allocated 460MB It automatically deletes the all SR points without any warning or any error message. I have tried by clearing and resetting but no luck. Any help would be appreciated. I see you are using Avast, it definitely is interfering with SR in WinME. And how do you see that?? He said he was using the old Norman one. Headers, Figgs - the only thing is that he seems to have been looking at his own headers! g Chuckling here.....I knew that, but wanted to see what reason he would give. LOL!! See you later.....Figgs -- Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006) (CrashFixPC) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk |
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Mart wrote:
Shane wrote :- I would wish to point out that, if it is just the registry he wants to revert, Scanreg does a much better job Fair point Shane, but it could cause much more serious issues if/when trying to uninstall (or even fix) something at a later date. True, but then we come back to the point of the curious practice. I'm guessing it's in the hope of retaining the registry in a known good state (though the use of a registry cleaner is, then, at least *potentially* counter-productive, while implying AAH being for whatever reason overly-concerned about the state of the registry - still most people who use registry cleaners don't ritually restore it every week!). I would expect either way that he rarely installs anything anymore and one might suppose that, on installing new software, he would update (as it were) the master registry - but, of course, this is far from certain! However, the AV entries issue almost certainly will cause problems, the least of which would be never going online with an up-to-date AV (regardless of whether it is possible for this particular one ever to be up-to-date again!). Either way, I suspect we're having a discussion here not so far removed from the one about the no. of angels dancing on a pin. Perhaps angels = atoms? This gives me an idea for a sweepstake. uppercase names ... in the same ballpark as reading ng/forum posts or email typed in all caps. LOL - or should that be lol? How about 5? Shane Mart "Shane" wrote in message ... It is certainly curious! That's the word that came to my mind - though whether you put it there is moot. But - possibly pedantically - I would wish to point out that, if it is just the registry he wants to revert, Scanreg does a much better job than SR as, all else being equal, SR doesn't restore case and you are quite likely to end up with lots of files with all uppercase names after using it, which is in the same ballpark as reading ng/forum posts or email typed in all caps. Except it's not on the world-wide interossiter, it's on your own computer (that Microsoft generously allows you to operate). Shane Mart wrote: Like you Mike, I'm more than a little curious as to why AHH 'routinely' restores "last weeks? rbxxx.cab file". Why he should want to revert to a previous registry - presumably when things are working normally - and why he would want to use scanreg (/restore) to do it whilst he has System Restore to do a better job, escapes me. As you say Mike, he's undoing all or any changes he has made to the system during the course of the week including quite possibly data (definitions) used by his AV application. The whole exercise seems fraught with hurdles and potential problems - perhaps this could even be the cause of his new problem. I'm not saying that scanreg doesn't have its uses - it can often be the final get-out-of-jail card if all else fails - nor SR for that matter, but to run it routinely for no apparent reason seems to be, well - "curious". Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... Firstly, Something has changed otherwise the problem would always have existed. If you were to create a checkpoint now and then reboot would the checkpoint still be present? If still present how long does it last before it gets flushed? Out of curiosity why do you restore the registry each week using the backup created by scanreg? I find this most odd and means that you are undoing all or any changes you have made to the system during the course of the week including quite possibly data used by your AV application. Does the problem persist if you temporarily disable or remove SuperAntiSpyware? -- Mike Maltby AAH wrote: More information required. For example when are the SR checkpoints being deleted? On boot up or at some other time? What It could be either on bootup or shutdown Cannot 100 percent pinpoint. changes have you made to your system since system restore was working correctly? NO Changes. The only thing I do once a week is to restopre the rbxxx.cab file The only software which may cause some irritation is to my memory -- SUPERAntiSpyware--- Can you still create a manual checkpoint? If you reboot after making a manual checkpoint is the checkpoint retained? Can you restore to a manual checkpoint you made earlier? On reset it creates the point during the first boot. and any manual point remains in tact during the boot process. Both type of points can be restored but very slow. |
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How about 5?
Then 5? it is! Mart |
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"Noel Paton" wrote in message ... "Heather" wrote in message ... "webster72n" wrote in message ... "AAH" wrote in message ... C:\ Total Space 12.2 GB Used Space 4.13 GB Free Space 8.11 GB SR Space Allocated 460MB It automatically deletes the all SR points without any warning or any error message. I have tried by clearing and resetting but no luck. Any help would be appreciated. I see you are using Avast, it definitely is interfering with SR in WinME. And how do you see that?? He said he was using the old Norman one. Headers, Figgs - the only thing is that he seems to have been looking at his own headers! g I made sure of that before I posted, Noel. vbg. H. -- Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006) (CrashFixPC) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk |
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"webster72n" wrote in message ... I made sure of that before I posted, Noel. vbg. H. Duh??? -- Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006) (CrashFixPC) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk |
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"Noel Paton" wrote in message ... "webster72n" wrote in message ... I made sure of that before I posted, Noel. vbg. H. Duh??? "DUH" about covers it.....grin Figgs -- Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006) (CrashFixPC) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk |
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