Per System Restore: "Restoring your computer may take a few minutes."

All I'm trying to do is restore to the previous day's point.  My computer (running 
Win ME) has been sitting not nearly at the half-way point of restore for HOURS.

Does anyone have any idea how long this restore takes?  Or do I apparently have a 
problem with System Restore?  Appreciate any and all help!  Thanks!

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re: System Restore Taking Forever? Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 11:46 am Posted by Jack Gulley (5917 messages posted) Depends. Do you have your Windows Update fixes installed? There was a fix for System Restore, no longer being able to do a system restore after a specific date, that was released several years ago. Without this fix installed any attempt now days will result in long delays and failure after many hours of trying. Even with the fix, it will hang if the system restore files are corrupted for some reason, as can often happen when there are other errors. Or if a virus/worm infection with a new version not being detected by your Anti-Virus program (or no Anti-Virus program installed and updated) has caused the System Restore area to be filled with tens of thousands of copies of the "infected" file, then it could take a very long time to sort through the mess and complete a restore. But if everything is up to-date and working OK, it should not take long at all to do a quick System Restore from just a few days back. Sure sounds like you have some sort of problem with it. When the system restore files get messed up, your only real choice is to Disable System Restore to delete to old corrupted files and then enable it again and try to fix what ever problem you have some other way. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: System Restore Taking Forever? Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 1:00 pm Posted by brian (497 messages posted) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279736 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum