Windows 7 gives error message when trying to create restore point


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    Windows 7 gives error message when trying to create restore point


    Hello everyone.
    I just came upon a very strange problem with my computer today. I started it as usual, ran a TuneUp Utilities check (as I usually do) and, in the meantime, was prompted by my iTunes installer to install a new version of iTunes. I clicked OK on the install thing, then all of a sudden I get this message from the HP Support Assistant: Windows System Restore is not activated. So I go to the System Protection folder to try to manually enable it, but I get an error message that says an unexpected error occurred: System restore has found an error, try to run System restore again. I do this a thousand times, and the same message pops up. So I run my Norton antivirus and SpyBot Search and Destroy. The Norton search comes up empty, but the SpyBot returns this: Babylon Toolbar and Win32.Downloader.bltu. So I click to fix the problems and an error message pops up in SpyBot saying I'm not running it as admin, so the problems can't be fixed. Well, my user account is an admin account (the only one I have in this computer), so there's obviously something very wrong here, for it seems like whatever this is, it's keeping me from executing whatever task may remove it. I also execute sfc /scannow from a command prompt and the returning message is that I cannot run sfc /scannow because I'm not an administrator. So... I'm lost. And I have no idea what to do to get it fixed. Could anyone, please, help? Thanks a lot!
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    Ok, nevermind. I obsessively looked for answers and came across this:
    If you're having the same problem as me (not being able to create restore points and receving the 0x81000203 error message), try the following:

    type regedit in your windows startup search bar.
    then, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\swprv\Parameters
    Verify if the ServiceDll value is: %Systemroot%\System32\swprv.dll

    Then go back to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\swprv
    Verify if the Start value is 2. If not, change it.
    Restart your computer.
    Then, when you try to create a backup or restore point, it will work.

    Now, what does that have to do with the iTunes update download, the win32.downloader and babylon toolbar, I do not know.

    Hope this helps someone else running into the same situation.
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