System Restore is no longer available.

Anonymous

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?

TIA

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments

Answer accepted by question author

Anonymous

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.

0 comments

46 additional answers

Anonymous

2012-01-23T07:43:32+00:00

Hi Gerry

Here's the data you requested:

Volume (C:)

    Volume size                                = 74.52 GB

    Cluster size                               = 4 KB

    Used space                                 = 14.71 GB

    Free space                                 = 59.81 GB

    Percent free space                         = 80 %

Volume fragmentation

    Total fragmentation                        = 0 %

    File fragmentation                         = 0 %

    Free space fragmentation                   = 0 %

File fragmentation

    Total files                                = 37,403

    Average file size                          = 821 KB

    Total fragmented files                     = 22

    Total excess fragments                     = 81

    Average fragments per file                 = 1.00

Pagefile fragmentation

    Pagefile size                              = 1.31 GB

    Total fragments                            = 1

Folder fragmentation

    Total folders                              = 3,622

    Fragmented folders                         = 1

    Excess folder fragments                    = 1

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation

    Total MFT size                             = 70 MB

    MFT record count                           = 41,286

    Percent MFT in use                         = 57 %

    Total MFT fragments                        = 4

Fragments       File Size       Most fragmented files

15              865 KB          \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3z25hbx1.default\places.sqlite-wal

11              576 KB          \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3z25hbx1.default\cookies.sqlite-wal

8               3 MB            \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\Avast\log\Setup.log

7               2 MB            \Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\Setup\setup.log

6               739 KB          \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\Logs\Debug.log

6               506 KB          \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3z25hbx1.default\Cache\_CACHE_003_

6               312 KB          \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3z25hbx1.default\Cache\_CACHE_002_

5               64 KB           \WINXP\system32\wbem\Logs\wbemess.lo_

5               2 MB            \WINXP\WindowsUpdate.log

4               36 KB           \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\Avast\log\aswAr.log

3               1 KB            \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\ntuser.dat.LOG

3               17 KB           \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3z25hbx1.default\prefs.js

3               1 MB            \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3z25hbx1.default\urlclassifier.pset

2               466 KB          \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AVAST Software\Avast\log\usntr.log

2               56 KB           \System Volume Information\_restore{D9BF005F-E46E-46BB-8434-E287FC33F533}\RP20

2               193 KB          \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3z25hbx1.default\Cache\_CACHE_001_

2               219 KB          \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\statistics.dat

2               26 KB           \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\Backup\userinit.exe.2b3cdd029c7ff9b1297239dfd873b726.a93aee1928a9d7ce3e16d24ec7380f89.aawbackup

2               7 KB            \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3z25hbx1.default\localstore.rdf

2               8 KB            \Documents and Settings\Ben Stevenson\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3z25hbx1.default\Cache\_CACHE_MAP_

2               1 MB            \WINXP\system32\CatRoot2\tmp.edb

2               5 KB            \WINXP\system32\wbem\Logs\wbemess.log

More next.
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments
Anonymous

2012-01-23T07:57:23+00:00

Hi Gerry

Here's the Commit Charge:

Total                      387500

Limit                    2220072

Peak                      418696

Regarding the auturuns that I had asked. If I uncheck an item does it mean that it will never come on again, or that it will simply not load on startup and will come on when the system requires it.
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments
Anonymous

2012-01-23T08:35:57+00:00
Hi Daavee

Thanks for your response.

My internet connection is cable.

Fromhttp://www.speedtest.net/:

Ping      28 ms

Download speed    2.27 Mbps

Upload speed          0.24 Mbps.   Is this one important? I don't upload anything as I don't have a website or Facebook or Twitter.

And for http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/   there are just 8 US cities to choose from, and I'm not in the US. Can it be done?

Antivirus is free Avast which I update and do every weekend.

I have both of those antiSpyware which I update and do every weekend.

In Task Manager :
1. Physical Memory - Total 96560
2. Commit Charge - Total 471084
3. Commit Charge - Limit 2220072
4. Commit Charge - Peak 473464
Pls tell me what do these items mean.

Pls also help me on a problem for which I have not got any answer in this thread:

My monitor screen is put to go off every 15 mins. But it doesn't go off at all nowadays. Adjusted it to 10 mins but it still remains on all the time. The video streaming is affected when the screen is off, which should not be the case, so I need this problem fixed so I can test the video streaming problem. Now that the screen is never off, I don't have the streaming problem.

Thanks
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments
Anonymous

2012-01-23T13:58:16+00:00

Long rants off topic create long threads!
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments