0x80042302 on system restore..

Anonymous
2010-02-24T05:46:54+00:00

I am having some problems with my laptop Windows 7 Home Premium pc. It has been working fine until my mouse pad stopped working properly, I tried to do several times a system restore and it finally worked. 

My Norton Antivirus expired and I removed it from my computer using Revo Uninstaller, the next time I booted my laptop, my wireless connection was off. I checked in Device Manager only to find out that there were 'warning' triangles in the network adapters and in all of my Universal Serial Bus Controllers. I fixed that by disabling everyone of them, and enabling them again. 

I installed a Windows Update, and after the install my laptop started acting weird. I cant listen to my music since it doesnt let me open it, I cant open my pictures, I cant  watch videos on youtube; no sound comes out at all, and it Im not able to even open the properties in my computer. I tried to do a system restore but it gave me the error above (0x80042302) saying " A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error. Check the Application event log for more information."

I tried with an antivirus to see if it might have something to do, but it didnt find any.. Any ideas on what might be wrong?.. 

Thanks..

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Anonymous
2013-06-29T21:11:04+00:00

Try checking all your services.search on start search  services.msc 

I had this problem too,had no audio, the error code in system restore and couldn't connect to the Internet .all my services was disabled so I changed them all to automatic and it worked like a dream. Hope this helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-10-03T10:30:46+00:00

    Search on my windows 10 isn't working as well. I have no way to find services.msc. Please help... :(

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-11-21T04:30:23+00:00

    Thank you.I found it this way and reset it to Automatic, as it was indeed disabled. I will give it a whirl when I next need to do a system restore and let you know. I don't need to do one right now so there's no point in doing it for nothing...

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-03-23T23:10:07+00:00

    Yes, im not able to listen to any audio either.. ill try to just reinstall windows 7...

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-03-21T09:08:09+00:00

    Afzal, thanks for the help, as i'm having the same problem (including no audio), amongst others, though i can open audio files, but nothing happens, same with videos - i can open them and see the pictures, but get no audio, as well as a  faiuled to play test toneerror on the sounds option on control panel when i try to check out sounds.

     when i go to services.msc, i cannot find the system restore service. 

    also when i enter sfc/scannow into the cmd window i get the following prompt:windows resource protection could not start the repair service

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