Vista - System Restore?

Hi, I have used home premium OS for six months, all of a sudden I cannot
restore, it comes up with, system did not restore "unspecified error",
anyone know of a remedy for this.
Thanks Brian

nntp.aioe.org wrote:Are you running NIS?

No I'm running AVG and Zonealarm'

Brian

Hi Brian,

Can you provide the exact steps that produced this error? (e.g. what pages
did you open; and at which steps did you get this error)

Thanks,
Christine
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"nntp.aioe.org" <solo@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, I just clicked on a restore point and let it do it's thing, and after
restart i get a box saying did not restore "unspecified error "

Brian

I really don't understand. I mean, I just don't understand why so many
people have such a problem with vista.
I bought 3 HP laptops in january this year. all came with vista.
first thing I did was, make the system backups (yes, like it says it).
I wanted to find out if this really works.
I took one laptop, renamed some system files so they would'nt work anymore
(yes, there is a way to do that) then I rebootet and, of course, it did not
start anymore. I put that system disk in the cd drive and I
just restored the whole darn thing. worked perfect. everything was back to
normal.
then I installed MS Office 2000. now, I have read a few times that this
doesn't work. not compatible with vista.
well, it works for me, no problems.
on the other one I installed Open Org (a ms-office clone), again, works
perfect.
I have a few games. Pool, chess, MS Flight Simulater 2000 and others. all of
them are older, ok for 98 and win 2000. meaning, they should'nt work in
vista or at least, crash after a minute or so.
they all work, no problems.

am I doing something right ? something a lot of people don't do ?
maybe.

with every new program installation, I do, what is called, a Clean Install.
here it is:

To Boot Clean in Windows Vista

Access the System Configuration Utility

1. Click Start and select Control Panel
2. Click System and Mantience
3. Click Administrative Tools
4. Double Click System Configuration

Configure Selective Startup options

1. On the General tab, choose Selective Startup
2. Uncheck Load Startup Items
3. Uncheck Load System Services
4. Select the Services tab
5. Check Hide all Microsoft services
6. Click Disable all
7. Click on OK
8. Click Restart.

*****************************************************
After performing the necessary steps, restore your system by doing the
following:

1. Click Start and select Control Panel
2. Click System and Maintience
3. Click Administrative Tools
4. Double click System Configuration
5. On the General tab, choose Normal Startup
6. Click Ok
7. Click Yes, when asked to restart your computer
*******************************************************

the second part to this is, make sure the program is compatible with vista.
here it goes:

right click on the exe file of that program. go to Properties.
click Compatibility.
click Run this proogram in compatibility mode for:
choose Windows XP service pack 2 from the combo box.
check: disable visual themes
check: disable desktop compostition
check: disable display scaling. Click OK
*****************************************************

next step: Security

got to Control panel, then Security.
click: Windows Firewall
click: Allow a program through Windows Firewall
click: Exceptions

if you don't see your programs name, click Add, find the exe file for that
program (in Program Files), click on the exe file, Open.
then Ok and you're finished.
that program will now work with no problems.

before you reboot, restore your system again by doing the following:

1. Click Start and select Control Panel
2. Click System and Maintience
3. Click Administrative Tools
4. Double click System Configuration
5. On the General tab, choose Normal Startup
6. Click Ok
7. Click Yes, when asked to restart your computer


so, because I am doing all this, I don't have problems with windows vista.
(or XP).
it seems like a whole lot to do, but it's not.
do it twice and you'll know it.

there are a few more things, like automatic Log On or taking out the
constant warning about running a program (DEP) and so on.

I hope this helps some folks.


"Christine [MSFT]" <chfok@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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checked with avg

Your not alone. MOST people don't have problems with Vista. The ones with
the most problems are "upgrades" on old hardware, and people who just fear
change. It is different enough from previous versions to scare some people
(especially the increased security, to which most computer people say "bout
time!")

A case in point about about old hardware. I originally ran Vista on my
computer with a 4 year old P4X400 motherboard with a 2.4 ghz processor, and
1.5 gigs of ram. Vista ran ok, but experianced occasional blue screens, and
the report/solution to MS was to update the bios.

The last free update to the bios was from 2 years ago, and the latest one
was from a third party that took over support for the now un-supported
motherboard, and costs 34 dollars.

So, I got a good deal on a new motherboard with a dual core processor for
140 dollars, and swapped it out. (It could use the same ram I had, and my 2
year old NVidia 6600GT AGP video card).

A cheap upgrade, and works like a champ. No more Blue screens.

Vista does make more use of your installed ram, and this pointed out an
interesting thing about my old motherboard. I was running 3 512 meg sticks,
and apparently, the motherboard specs said this was NOT one of the supported
modes. But I had no problems with XP. I guess it very rarely used over 1 gig
of my 1.5 gigs so the potential problems never showed up.

Kurt

"daniel" <h4464d@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm having the same problem as Brian, did the reboot thing but to no avail

"Christine [MSFT]" wrote:

"nntp.aioe.org" wrote:

I have the same problem: running Home Premium for about a month and using
ZoneAlarm. I was using Mozy for backing up data; didn't like it and tried to
restore back to before the install. It just comes up with "unspecified error".

Is there a tecnical problem note for this? I suppose I'll have to search for
this.

I'm about to uninstall all software that I've loaded and see what happens.

"sonjon" wrote: