Did you choose the show all restore points or just see the first screen with
the latest restore point.
"TeXaS*pEtE" <TeXaSpEtE@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Thats another strange thing, the restore only went back to the 26/8/07 and
> not to the 25/8/07 when it was installed (unless i'm missing something).
> Do
> you think a registry cleaner or anti virus software may sort my mess out?
>
> "Engel" wrote:
> Quote:
>> As always, you should make sure that you have got a working system
>> restore
>> point before you run any test or installatiºn.
>>
>> Use the System Restore utility in Windows to reset the OS to a time and
>> date
>> point prior to the installatiºn.
>>
>> I hope this post is helpful.
>>
>> Let us know how it works ºut.
>> -- ---
>>
>> "TeXaS*pEtE" wrote:
>> Quote:
>> > Greetings, i've had Vista ultimate 32-bit now for a few weeks and its
>> > been
>> > going great. This last weekend I installed Daemon tools and ever since
>> > my
>> > system has been freezing up completely, and I'm having to power off to
>> > get
>> > the damn thing to do anything. Since this happened the first time my
>> > working
>> > DVD drive vanished! and I was left with the virtual drive E: (my dvd
>> > drive
>> > having been d: I thought it must be Daemon tools, so I there fore
>> > uninstalled it as i thought it might be the virtual drive. But no! The
>> > virtual drive E: vanished then leaving me with an unknown DVD drive
>> > F:?????
>> > Now after swapping the around the dvd drive wiring inside the cpu, it
>> > has
>> > once more returned! But I'm still left with this F: drive. I managed
>> > to
>> > uninstall this useless drive and everything was fine, until later on
>> > the cpu
>> > froze AGAIN! I powered off, re-booted and shock horror The f: drive is
>> > back!
>> > along with my working D: DVD drive!
>> >
>> > I am still getting random crashes and mainly freezing of my system.
>> > Can
>> > anybody shed any light? I'm pretty sure its the DVD drive and Daemon
>> > Tools
>> > causing it (Even though its uninstalled). I did also notice when I was
>> > searching for hardware changes when I lost the DVD drive the first
>> > time,that
>> > it froze the system up as well. This other drive f: appears as LITE-ON
>> > then
>> > a load of numbers & letters and it says its a cdrom drive.
>> >
>> > My system is as follows:
>> >
>> > Processor: intel core duo E6600
>> > Motherboard: nforce 680i sli
>> > Memory: 2GB corsair twinX XMS2
>> > Graphics card: 768mb Gainward 8800GTX
>> > Hard Drive: 250 Gb Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200
>> > rpm,
>> > 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
>> > 1.44Mb Sony Black Floppy Disk Drive OEM
>> > Bog standard DVD drive (make escapes me! but nothing fancy)
>> > LN18713 - DVD writer - £20.20(x2 because its so much better having 2)
>> > Windows vista ultimate 32-bit
>> >
>> >
>> > Thank you
>> >
>> >