System Restore stopped working

Finnis

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Hi y'all. Thanks in advance. I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium a couple years old but all up to date and everything. It was working fine, but I was messing around in the startup menu tonight and accidently cleared the wrong box. To make a long story short, after the machine restarted, nothing worked. I can't access system restore to fix it because it tells me that system restore isn't working, and that the volume shadow copy service isn't working. The error code on that is 0x81000202. Also the event log isn't working, apparently Windows Explorer isn't working, so much isn't working, and it won't connect to the wireless router so I've lost the Internet connection. I don't even know enough about the problem to say what exactly isn't working, but the machine is useless now. I've run every internal diagnostic I can find and the memory is fine, but something critical obviously stopped running when I cleared that box. I can't access the startup menu to reconfigure it either. Does anybody have any clues as to what I've done and how to fix it short of doing a clean install of the operating system? Thanks again.
 

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Hi,

Have you tried going into Safe Mode?

Startup and after the Bios screen , but before Windows starts loading, press F8.

Select Safe Mode - it takes a min. to get into it while it loads up.

You will only have limited graphics -you should be able to undo what you did from there.

I suspect you may have unticked this in msconfig . If so, tick it again, click Apply then Ok. Alternatively , Dot the Normal startup box at the top, click Apply and OK - then restart.

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Hope it helps

SIW2
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Vista
    CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
    Memory
    4gb DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
  • Operating System
    win7/vista
    CPU
    intel i5-8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
What exactly were you messing around with? For all we know, you unchecked Auto-Align (i know it was exaggerated, but we do need to know). SIW2 may have the right idea there, with the safe mode. Providing it starts up that way. Is there anything important on the computer? Worst case, you can put in the disk and reinstall vista.

~Lordbob
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS P5QC
    Memory
    2x2GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidia GeForce 9500GT 1Gb
    Sound Card
    Mobo
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung SyncMaster 206bw
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SP2514N ATA 250Gb 7200RPM
    Samsung [Model] 1Tb 7200RPM SATA2
    PSU
    Cooler Master Real Power Pro 750W
    Keyboard
    Razer Tarantula
    Mouse
    Razer Lachesis
    Internet Speed
    not fast enough
Hi,

Have you tried going into Safe Mode?

Startup and after the Bios screen , but before Windows starts loading, press F8.

Select Safe Mode - it takes a min. to get into it while it loads up.

You will only have limited graphics -you should be able to undo what you did from there.

I suspect you may have unticked this in msconfig . If so, tick it again, click Apply then Ok. Alternatively , Dot the Normal startup box at the top, click Apply and OK - then restart.

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Hope it helps

SIW2
Thank you very much friend S1W2. I did just what you suggested and it worked. I checked the normal startup option and everything is back on now, even the problem I was trying to troubleshoot in the first place, which was that the screensaver had stopped working. It works now too. Now I just have to figure out how to unplug all that unsecessary stuff in the start menu, and then I'll be right back where I started from, with the whole machine down again. lol. Thanks again sir.
 

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Hi Finnis ,

If you want to stop programs running , suggest you use Windows Defender - Method 2 here

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/79612-startup-programs-enable-disable.html

Many will try to reinsert themselves into startup. It's worth also opening the programs in question and check under the Options or Settings menu. You may find a box that says Run at startup or similar - obviously, untick it and Ok .

If you are thinking about stopping services, it's safer to do it from services.msc - be careful with this -try right click and stop and set to Manual rather than Disable.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/59910-services.html

Hope it helps

SIW2
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Vista
    CPU
    Intel E8400
    Motherboard
    ASRock1333-GLAN R2.0
    Memory
    4gb DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    nvidia 9500GT 1gb
  • Operating System
    win7/vista
    CPU
    intel i5-8400
    Motherboard
    gigabyte b365m ds3h
    Memory
    ballistix 2x8gb 3200
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