Donald L McDaniel wrote:
Quote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:41:01 -0400, "Athanasian_Creed <><"
> <athanasian...@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Quote:
>> 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
> Please reply to the correct thread and article.
> ================================================
Thanks Donald for the reply - i do have 'Vista VI' installed but could
not find anywhere in the program to turn off System Restore. I checked
services but could not find anything to do with SR.
Now a new problem, whenever the system tries to update my system, it
creates a new SR point. Except that it takes forever and a day for it
to do so...on and on and on it says "creating restore point"
Oooooooyyyyyyyy!
Ray