System Restore did not complete successfully.

Hello and welcome bfranek mate can you first please follow this
Now before we can help we do need to know what is in your machine so please do this System Info - See Your System Specs
or either enter the specs of your system in your forum profile the specs will appear when we click on that little box bottom left of the post screen it is for me the preferable option as it is easy. As you may appreciate it is very hard when you don’t know what one is working with for example a diesel or petrol engine.
(pretyped to save time)
Oh and please let us know what AV you are using.



Now a couple of simple things you can do is to try and restore the system again if you can remember just where you restored it to before. I am assuming you ran this restore from a plain account ?? because you say when logged into your admin account you get this message so why not try the restore logged in as admin?? If the restore does not run then it usually tells you there and then. Now youhvae your reasons but why when it is only you are you not logging in as admin??



Next you can try these again and sfc is often thought to be best run for three consecutive runs



https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1538-sfc-scannow-command-system-file-checker.html
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html < if necessary include the /f and /r in the command line as per Option2

Ok look it might just be a red herring as you suggested and may I suggest that you use a password database in case you find yourself locked out of you admin if you would prefer to have everything under one roof as it were. Personally even though I live alone and no one else has access to my machines except my very young grandkids and under supervision I am totally admin account based.

Now I use Google Keep which stores whatever you like in the way of notes and passwords and that can be accessed from another machine or your phone that has Keep on it.

So for example I forget my login password I only have to open Google Keep on my phone or another machine and there it will be along with other various passwords and info. Now this of course is all stored in the cloud as it were and is encrypted but I take this a step further by encrypting what I put into Keep.

So if for example the password was JosephFranek123 I would add J*****F*****1** now would know exactly what that is and you can use your imagination to encrypt a fairly good password and there you are able to log back in. So in essence it is doubly encrypted because I am that pedantic. Now of course you need to remember the Keep login password to get the other but I tend to load Keep with an auto login on my machines although this means you only have to remeber one password and there are ways of recovering that too.

Having said all that did the restore work??

No worries mate at least it is fixed and you are back in business:)