System Restore is no longer available.

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When I go to "Start" / System Restore, dialog box appears " System Restore is no longer protecting your computer. Restart and try again." I have done that several and restarted, with always the same result. How can I enable SR again?

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That was the only thing i have in my notes about the SR service and that error and I did recreate it one more time here to be sure my notes made sense. I have that same error for other Services and it is usually a missing file, so usually easy to fix

Do you know if SR has worked properly since Avast has been installed?

Since your SR Service is broken, and if that is the only problem you know about, you could:

1. Export the SR Service section of your registry and send it here for analysis

2. I can export the SR Service part of my registry and send it to you for installation on your system. I have instructions for that (the SR Service is not very exciting to look at)

3. You can totally reinstall System Restore (you don't have to reinstall XP - just the SR part)

a. I have instructions for that and you do not need an XP installation CD

b. If you reinstall SR, you will lose all your current Restore Points

c. If SR doesn't work anyway, who cares about number b

Even though Avast is pretty good, I wish you would do this while you are thinking about it:

Download, install, update and do at least one full scan with these free malware detection programs:

Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/

SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/

They can be uninstalled later if desired.

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Anonymous

2012-01-14T13:09:41+00:00

Josel the Moderator. LOL
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Anonymous

2012-01-14T09:25:09+00:00

Gerry - the issue in this thread is resolved.

I suggested to Ben Stevenson to start a new thread for his new issue, which he says he did and that new thread is here:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-performance/video-streaming-problem/698c2bdb-9bae-4466-8342-87f02e2b9c6c
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Anonymous

2012-01-14T06:33:38+00:00

Following is what I got:

Computer:

Intel (R) Celeron (R) M CPU

   440 @1.86GHz

1.87 GHz, 896 MB of RAM

Commiy Charge (K)

Total                                      1099908

Limit                                       2220072

Peak                                       1612760

Volume (C:)

    Volume size                                = 74.52 GB

    Cluster size                               = 4 KB

    Used space                                 = 11.15 GB

    Free space                                 = 63.37 GB

    Percent free space                         = 85 %

Volume fragmentation

    Total fragmentation                        = 1 %

    File fragmentation                         = 3 %

    Free space fragmentation                   = 0 %

File fragmentation

    Total files                                = 34,415

    Average file size                          = 709 KB

    Total fragmented files                     = 440

    Total excess fragments                     = 2,901

    Average fragments per file                 = 1.08

Pagefile fragmentation

    Pagefile size                              = 1.31 GB

    Total fragments                            = 1

Folder fragmentation

    Total folders                              = 3,402

    Fragmented folders                         = 8

    Excess folder fragments                    = 50

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation

    Total MFT size                             = 70 MB

    MFT record count                           = 37,899

    Percent MFT in use                         = 52 %

    Total MFT fragments                        = 4

Fragments       File Size       Most fragmented files

226             1,017 KB        \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Local Settings\Temp\SilverlightMSI.log

203             54 MB           \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000094.vpx

200             54 MB           \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000180.vpx

197             54 MB           \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000280.vpx

111             7 MB            \Program Files\Microsoft Silverlight\5.0.61118.0\agcore.dll

96              6 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000095.vpx

96              6 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000181.vpx

96              6 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000281.vpx

67              4 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000379.dll

55              4 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000316.exe

50              3 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000329.exe

50              3 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000315.exe

46              3 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000375.std

40              2 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000320.dll

26              2 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000101.dll

26              2 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000317.dll

26              2 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000293.dll

26              2 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000193.dll

26              23 MB           \WINXP\Installer\57d072.msp

25              2 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000296.dll

25              2 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000196.dll

25              2 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000104.dll

22              5 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000349.std

22              3 MB            \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\Avast\log\usntr.log

19              1 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000301.dll

19              1 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000201.dll

19              1 MB            \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000109.dll

15              92 KB           \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\9GEZNHSS

15              941 KB          \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP2\A0000353.dll

Pls tell me what all that says

Thanks

Ben
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Anonymous

2012-01-13T13:46:33+00:00

Ben

What is the CPU and how much RAM does your computer have? Right click on the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties to get this information.

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

You can sometimes tell a lot a system from a Disk Defragmenter report. Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents Folder. Open the file, and place the cursor anywhere in the file, select Edit, Select All to highlight all text and copy and paste into the body of your message. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it is more informative.
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