I'm having problems and wanted to restore to an earlier date but it won't work. I have tried three different dates and every time I get a message saying that system restore has failed. I have ran a virus check with Microsoft Security Essentials and also ran Spybot Search & Destroy but found nothing. I have also ran System File Checker and found nothing there either. Any idea what I should try next?
Do you know if System Restore is turn on or not? Check out this tutorial and it will tell you how to make sure it is turned on. System Restore - Enable or Disable
Hi bigmck. Yeah I just checked and it is on and the configure button is not greyed out. Everything appears to be working except it isn't as it just won't restore. I read somewhere else that Microsoft had really screwed up with System Restore in Windows 7 as it has never worked properly.
As far is I know, the System Restore does work OK. I have used mine and have never heard any complaints on them. I make a restore point every Wednesday just to be sure they are being made. You might try that in the future.== Back to your problem now. I am not sure what to tell you. Were the restore dates you saw recent or fairly old?
I have about 16 restore points at the moment from yesterday back to 14th, so just about a week of restore points, and I have allocated roughly 37Gb to System Restore.
I might have to bite the bullet and accept that its not going to work perhaps because its corrupted in some way. I have to say I never had a problem with System Restore in Windows 98. Is there a way of deleting System Restore in Windows 7 and forcing Windows to replace it with a fresh uncorrupted copy?
This will help getting rid of old restore points.
System Protection Restore Points - Delete
This will show you how to create a new restore point.
System Restore Point - Create
Hey Goz just a shot in the dark here, but do you have Norton? Norton has a setting that produces exactly the problem you described......
If so, look under Product Security > General tab > Norton Product Tamper Protection.
Turn that Tamper Protection setting OFF, and the System Restore will work just fine.
That setting is designed to prevent an outside source from messing with your antivirus, so it's trying to protect itself.
Hi Layback Bear. What I'm going to try first is to create a new restore point and then see if it works. If that doesn't work then I'll see if I can get rid of System Restore completly and do a fresh install.
@Dallas 7. No I don't have Norton. I discover many years ago that Norton SystemWorks which I had on my computer at the time was nothing more than a system hog which slowed everything down. For that reason as soon as I get a new computer if I find Norton on it I delet it immediately. At the moment I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials.
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