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Unable to enable system restore
What specific message are you seeing in MSConfig saying that system
restore is not enabled? I ask since I have never heard of MSConfig posting any such message. What exactly do you see when you attempt to use system restore? Either to create a checkpoint or to perform a restore. I need to see the exact text of any error message. You might want to post back the response to this question in a new thread with a subject such as "unable to enable system restore". in msconfig, General, a button Start System Restore, I click it and a screen "system restore is disabled". Then, to check, in Control Panel/System/../Troubleshooting, System Restore disabled was unchecked, so it should be enabled, was not. Therefore, how to enable System Restore? Mike |
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in msconfig, General, a button Start System Restore, I click it and a screen "system restore is disabled". Then, to check, in Control Panel/System/../Troubleshooting, System Restore disabled was unchecked, so it should be enabled, was not. Therefore, how to enable System Restore? First try launching system restore directly rather than via the button in msconfig. There are many ways you can do this including: a) By launching system restore using the shortcut found at Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools, b) From the link in Help & Support, c) By entering C:\windows\system\rstrui.exe in the Start | Run box and clicking OK, or, d) By directly double clicking the file rstrui.exe (Use Windows Explorer, rstrui.exe is in the windows\system\restore folder). If these confirm your previous findings then: 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 2-300MB is normally more than adequate for day to day use allowing perhaps a week of checkpoints to be available although increasing this to perhaps 4-500MB 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 |
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