System Restore Fails

[WSFer1]

Hi, guys​

My system is Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit, newly bought on a new computer.​

I tried a system restore to undo an installation of an incompatible program that wouldn't
uninstall – I had anticipated trouble, so I had prepared a specific restore point for that.​

The operation seemed to go well, with plenty of encouraging messages, until after completion of the​

restart process. Then, when Windows was up and all seemed fine, an error message appeared:

System Restore did not complete successfully. System files and​

settings were not changed.

System Restore could not access a file, probably because an anti-virus​

program is running …

… you can try advanced recovery method.​

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I tried again, this time with the AVG anti-virus fully removed – same result.

I tried a previous restore point – same result.​

I'd appreciate any help, thank you.​

P.S.: I'm aware of the numerous past similar threads in this forum, but I didn’t find any with a
happy ending. Maybe this time I'll get untypically lucky.​

 

[whs]

There is no happy ending. System restore is iffy and if it decides not to work, that seems to be it. You could try another restore point.

For the future, I suggest you make an image with free Macrium or free Paragon. That is the only way to create a safe fall-back.

 

[mak74]

Try to restore in Safe Mode (press F8 while booting). And this tutorial might be helpful: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html