Cannot make System Restore Points and none existing in XP Media Center Ed.

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I'm getting that 'Cannot create System restore points. Reboot and try again.' No points exist, either. The checkbox to turn it off is not checked, so they should be made. I read other posts here, but the advice mentioned checking Drive Settings or Performance but my XP doesn't have those settings. How can I reset this? The only anti-spyware I'm using is SpywareGurad, Spywareblaster, Spybot. Running: Windows XP Media (2002 SP2) on Dimension 510. Message Edited by eagledave on 09-19-2007 06:22 PM

tomron · Answer

Try in safe mode.   Tom

eagledave · Answer

In Safe Mode, there is still no existing restore points. The option to create one isn't there (but I guess that's intentional?).

tomron · Answer

System restore needs a certain amount of disk space.How much do you have allocated for system restore?   'Disk space used by System Restore by default'   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/plan/faqsrwxp.mspx   It wouldn't hurt to run some scans in safe mode.   Scan with your AV and avg anti spyware   http://free.grisoft.com/doc/20/lng/us/tpl/v5

mombodog · Answer

Reinstall system restore.   http://bertk.mvps.org/html/reinstall.html Message Edited by mombodog on 09-19-2007 09:26 PM

mombodog · Answer

' I got Windows SP2 as an automatic update,'   If you do not have SP2 installed, you need to do this for sure.   I suggest not getting it thru windows update, download it from here  https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&displaylang=en  save it to a folder of choice and execute it from there.

eagledave · Answer

Disk space set to 12%. Have 80 gigs memory. Read that 12% might cause problems so I lowered it but didn't help. That anti-spyware was 50 MB which would take awhile to download. I might try it at some point. I tried the reinstall directions, but I'm not sure I did it correctly. I got Windows SP2 as an automatic update, so I don't have a cd of it. I ran the command to locate 'sr.inf' (which was in !386 folder on HD). Clicked on it, the files were being copied. I didn't get a 'Reboot your computer' message, so I went into the !386 folder, rightclicked on sr.inf, clicked 'install,' files got copied again to somewhere...got the 'reboot' message (& rebooted) but Restore still doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

Message Edited by eagledave on 09-20-2007 09:21 AM

eagledave · Answer

My system is running SP2, so it is installed, but happens to be from an update. When you say 'If you do not have SP2 installed,' do you mean from a complete version? I want to make sure you mean this, as it's a 10 hour download.

mombodog · Answer

Sorry, I mis-understood your statement  'I got Windows SP2 as an automatic update'  as present tense, but now know it is past tense, you have already installed SP2, you are ok, no need to download again.

eagledave · Answer

I indicated in the original post that I was running XP SP2, so I thought you were making a distinction between downloading SP2 versus gettting it as part of an auto update. I'm also having a problem with a Firefox update this week, and I've read suggestions that one should download the whole program, then uninstall the update-added version, then install the downloaded version.  Actually, this is why I wanted to use 'System restore' - so I could get back to the pre-FIrefox update.  Inre to SP2, an entire download might make sense if some other part of SP2 got corrupted. I'm wondering also if there's a way to just download the Restore program? I still can't make restore points, and none exist in the computer. I turned off Spywareguard, disabled the protections in Spyblaster, and I assume Spybot only works when one activates it.

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