"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a 3rd party defragmenting program that will delete the restore
>points and shadow copies every time I do a boot time defrag.
I'll assume that's what O&O is doing to my system then.
Cheers.
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> That being said, I don't use system restore anyway. I have it turned off
> and use TrueImage to make daily, incremental, system images.
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> Richard Urban
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> "Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:O9qy9%23n2HHA.464@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Julian wrote:
>>> This has happened on my Vista HP system several times.
>>> Anyone know why this might happen?
>>> (I haven't run any disk clean-up processes.)
>>
>> Are you dual-booting with XP? If yes, this is a known issue. Are you
>> running any Symantec products? If yes, this is a known issue. Here are
>> links that will help you:
>>
>> MVP Bert Kinney on System Restore - http://bertk.mvps.org/html/vista.html
>>
>> Problems caused by Symantec -
>> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html
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>> Missing Restore Points/Shadow Copies in Windows Vista -
>> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrpv.html
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>> System Restore - Error Messages in Vista -
>> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/eerrormsgsv.html
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>>
>> Malke
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