On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:41:01 -0400, "Athanasian_Creed <><"
<athanasian...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>Greetings all,
>
>I hope you are able to shed some light on how to fix a problem i haven't a
>clue on what to do.
>
>First off, i'm running Vista Home Premium with SP-1 installed and all
>subsequent updates installed.
>
>Problem is, i've somehow lost the ability to access System Restore. I had
>been using it prior to the install of SP-1 and am now using a program called
>'Rollback RX' which is a much more thorough program similiar to SR. I would
>like to shut down SR since it is taking up valuable disk space and is
>redundant now that Rollback RX is installed and working OK but everytime i
>click on the icon i created on my desktop, it gives me a message saying
>something to the effect of 'System Restore Service is running' however, the
>SR program does not open up. This has been the case ever since SP-1 was
>installed. If i go into 'My Computer', 'Properties' and click on System
>Protection, i get the SR screen BUT all it shows is it is scanning/analysing
>disks - it stays that way.
>
>Googling the problem did not help any - my next step would be to start Vista
>in 'Safe Mode' and try to open the icon on my desktop that way OR go into
>'system32' file, find 'rstrui.exe' file and try to open it that way. Would
>you think that would solve my problem or is there another way to close down
>SR??
>
>I'm stumped and looking to the wisdom of the gurus in this newsgroup for
>whatever help you can provide me.
>
>TIA,
>
>
>Ray 
> If I'm not mistaken, you will have to turn off the System Restore
Services. I also believe this would not be possible without using the
Group Policy Editor, or a third-party tweaker such as "VistaVI", from
http://www.totalidea.com
Donald L McDaniel
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