Windows xp system restore no changes made

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Fixed it with Revo. Joined Jun 17, Messages 1, It's a freeware uninstaller. Joined May 6, Messages To pursue the question - my System Restore never restores.

I get the same message electrix did, except I get it every time. Once I tried every restore point on the calendar. Usually I try at least two different points. I don't necessarily use it just for messing up programs - sometimes I mess up Display settings and don;t know what I did or sometimes I fiddle too much with security settings.

Is there any way to make make the feature work? Doesn't work. Just what I need I've downloaded it. Try using erunt instead of system restore its free and its better than system restore. Thanks, I just got it and created a restore point, then "restored" a few minutes later. That was just a test to see if it would do it - it said it did.

I must wait for a disaster to see if it really does work. It looks like I must create the restore points manually. It doesn't create restore points automatically.. Yes I have found this, so I just save the registry once a day.

Although I have read somewhere that it does this automatically on shutdown,which it does'ent so maybe a setting has to be changed and it will do it. But it seems a bit complicated so I will carry on doing it manually, although if I set my mind to it I could most probably do it, maybe I will when I have a quite moment.

I agree with you, easier to do it myself. Hope you can help. Keep up the great work, you folks are great. The world is going to HELL because of corporations psychopaths. Good non greedy people like you guys are in short supply. Cheer up! Hi Dear I have windows 7. Reinstalled System Restore. Got the System Restore Service running. The System Restore window did not open. Hi, I just got that awful Advanced Virus Remover out of my computer. I can get to my System restore, but it deleted all the points from before the infection.

Any way to reverse that? In my office my administrator lock and i have personal log on my system so that i have access pen dirve also have access copy from pen dirve but i have promble with copy data from system to pen dirve because of i have cannot authority of this service so how can i solve my problem. Other system functionality seems to be fine so far. I see a few other hokey things happening as well. I did notice an error message about mcsysmon.

I have the McAfee updated to the latest available from comcast and have run regular scans — nothing found. Trying to use System Restore to remove corrupted hal,dll files, daughter followed all instructions, but inadvertantly left HP Home Edition CD in drive…computer booted up from the CD…now all programs and files are missing!! Any way to get them back?? Vanette I am sorry to say, but your data seems to have been lost because your computer has been restored to the factory settings from HP installer CD.

I have never been able to use system restore with XP. I have tried on a couple of different computers but it has never ever worked. Co-authors: Updated: June 4, Categories: XP Instructions. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read , times.

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