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System Restore does not work
Hi,
it seems that either trojan or MBAM deleted some Windows 7 x64 (see my system specs) System files on my PC.
Upon checking Windows Update, I was notified that the service is not running. In addition, Windows Security Center Service was turned off and couldn't have been turned on.
I spent a couple of days Googling for solutions and finally succeeded in restoring BITS and WSCS in Services. After that, downloading updates was enabled, but installing could not be performed, because System Restore does not work.
I turned off system protection and now I can download and install updates in small increments. I can't install all 300 MB of updates at once (there were 53 of them). OK, eventually I will install them all, but I would like to enable System restore.
I must stress that restore point can be made, but restoring can not be performed.
I tried to start System Restore Service but to no avail: "Windows could not start the System Restore Service on Local Computer. Error 126: the specified module could not be found"
Besides, when I reboot, I got message: "Error in srclient.dll. Missing entry CreateFirstRunRP"
Since sr.inf file was missing (along with some other system files), I copy/pasted it from another computer with the same OS. I tried to install sr.inf, but I was asked for other files (sr.sys, srsvc.dll, srrstr.dll, filelist.xml, rstrui.exe, srdiag.exe, srframe.mmf...) which were missing. Then I copied those files from the same computer, as well, but to no avail, since sr.sys could not be found neither there nor on installation disk.
(btw, I have Avast AV) I performed sfc several times in a row, but it found nothing. MBAM also found nothing.
This problem could be solved by reinstalling Windows, but I would like to avoid that, if possible.
Any advice as to how to make System Restore work?