Hi youngharry
Understood!
Just had to make sure and the only way to do that is to ask right, so now I know your situation better and see why you're where you are.
@djmorgan - Yes it has helped many people, but almost none of them know exactly what Sys Restore does or doesn't do. In a way it's what it "Doesn't" do that can make it so unreliable to try a restore point over a week old. Since it doesn't take and replace a complete system snapshot, it leaves many file types as they were and that's where things can get ugly when someone has few failed restores or tries too old of a restore point.
We (I) did a very comprehensive and detailed study of System Restore on my other site and the numbers I came up with were pretty much mirrors of what other sites who tested Sys Restore were getting too. There are just too many different configuration options to have something like this work well across everyone's systems, so some will win while other will lose...big time in some cases.
Don't get me wrong tho, it's a great tool to have when needed but I think people should read & understand just what it's capable of doing and not doing before they ever use it...again because it's not a complete system snapshot & only monitors certain file types for changes.
youngharry said:
I enjoy a challenge & nothing beats solving a problem like this, thats why I will carry on until I or someone else manages to do it.
Same here..
, and I guess that can be said about almost everyone who ask questions at, or contribute too, Tech forums like this. We are the folk who discover probably 75% of the Problems & Fixes for MS and the other S'ware makers out there.
I have about the same issue with Vista's repair install (InPlace Upgrade now) feature. Whenever I needed and used that in XP, it worked Flawlessly almost every time! Yet now in Vista, I've tried it 5 times and 5 times it failed miserably. I was Beta testing Eset's ESS software and Comodo Firewall Pro V3 awhile back and due to some bugginess in the s'ware, I had to try a couple of Repair Installations. Again, while I worked with XP Pro SP1&2 for years and a number of times had to rebuild the installation for whatever reasons, it worked pretty much every time for me then, but in Vista that's altogether another story. It has yet to work for me and I've read about countless others who say the exact same thing.
These tools are great when they work, but frustrating and possibly Damaging when they don't...but that's Software 4 U!