system restore and windows live

[geordief]

how can a System Restore (just about a week back in time) make me loose Windows Live? It says Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file and I may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
What is all the with permissions?
How can the system restore have brought all this about?

 

[pip22]

Windows Live what?, Messenger?, Mail?

When you run SR it restores your system to what was already installed just prior to that date & time. Anything which was installed after that will not be present, therefore you have to re-install any such applications.

 

[geordief]

thanks
well I only have the computer a month or so (irrelevant I suppose) but I thought that Windows Live was on it when I bought it.

I didn't think I had to install it although i did have to put in my acccounts.

Yes it is Windows Live Mail (I am not particularly well dosposed towards it as I ha d been used to Outlook Express since Windows 95 and the change to Windows 7 forced Windows Live Mail onto me....
I can't see why Windows Live mail should go missing with a SR Iif it came with the (HP) machine but I did have a virus problem around the same time (my Norton 360 was knocked out for a few days) and I suppose that may have had something to do with it