On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:01:39 -0400, "Athanasian Creed <><"
<athanasian...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>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.
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>
>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 Try, friend:
Control Panel/System/System Protection Tab
You MUST turn off System Restore for EACH physical drive there are
restore points on.
Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the correct thread and article.
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