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re: system restore has gone and left me Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 12:33 pm Posted by joe (7018 messages posted) just by chance, have you tried it in safe mode? and, really, with those programs, i really do not think any of them would be the cause of this, you can also try to search through Windows ME Fix's by Jack Gulley to see if anything there might be of help. good luck. ;-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 2:11 pm Posted by billy210uk (5 messages posted) Thanks Joe, I'll have a butchers at it and let u know. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 2:43 pm Posted by joe (7018 messages posted) "have a butchers"...lol ;-D good luck, let us know.. ;-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Monday, February 28, 2005 at 12:54 am Posted by brian (497 messages posted) go to msconfig, i believe there is a box there for launch system restore. see if statemgr is tick in msconfig, if not tick it, click apply, click ok, reboot. restore will NOT run with statemgr unticked. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Monday, February 28, 2005 at 9:49 am Posted by billy210uk (5 messages posted) Thanks for your suggestions Joe, I did try what you suggested and had a look through the website but I couldn't find anything. Now I come to think of it I downloaded a windows update in response to a warning about losing my restore point capabilities if I didn't download it. I think I was downloading Media Player 9 or something and then something popped up with one of those Q reference numbers spouting some bob about downloading an update. Do you think that may have interfered with it? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Monday, February 28, 2005 at 9:59 am Posted by billy210uk (5 messages posted) Hi Brian, Thanks for your suggestions. I went into msconfig and made sure all the boxes were ticked, which they were, although I didn't see a folder or and entry called statemgr. I remembered I downloaded a windows update that might of upset my system restore, could this have been likely? It was specifically an update to prevent me actually losing the very function I lost. If only I had system restore! This is why I never used to bother with updates, I don't trust em. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Monday, February 28, 2005 at 11:12 am Posted by brian (497 messages posted) go to windows,system,restore,click on RSTRUI.EXE, see what you get, statemgr could have been removed from the proper run key in the registry, if the restore components are still there you could put it back in. but see what you get first from double clicking RSTRUI.EXE. what do i know? i doubt an update removed statemgr entry. more probably a registry cleaner or some program you ran. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Monday, February 28, 2005 at 11:23 am Posted by brian (497 messages posted) i don't understand why users use such programs as this one> Panicware pop-up stopper. maybe this one caused it> Advanced Uninstaller Pro 2004. i used one registry cleaner once and the stupid thing removed my msconfig entry for systray. i put it back in manually into the registry which made it show up in msconfig again. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Monday, February 28, 2005 at 11:32 am Posted by brian (497 messages posted) did you try to launch system restore from msconfig? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Monday, February 28, 2005 at 12:39 pm Posted by billy210uk (5 messages posted) Hi. Thanks for your comments. Firstly, there was no box labelled system restore in the msconfig file to tick. I've even tried looking for the RSTRUI.EXE file but as far as my computer is concerned it's never heard of that or statemgr. And there isn't a restore file in my system folder. If you do a search for 'system restore' it comes back with sod all. It prob was that uninstaller that caused the problem. As for the panicware pop up stopper, I thought it may be a decent pop-up blocker. It had a high enough popularity on download.com that I figured the herd has better instincts than me in what's useful and whats not! To be honest this comp isn't used much and I've never used system restore on it before. But now I don't have it I miss it. Thanks for your comments tho. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: system restore has gone and left me Monday, February 28, 2005 at 3:03 pm Posted by joe (7018 messages posted) advanced uninstaller has a registry cleaner, optimizer, as well as a registry backup, to ask why is a choice of the user/owner and not of the question entailed here, ccleaner is by far a more "dangerous" choice of using if the user is not familiar with it! a lot of damaged has been done by inadequate knowledge of the product! [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