re: System restore wrecked machine?
Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1353 messages posted)
Hyuga,
Check this link for the best Registry Backup and Optimization tools for Win2000/NT/XP.
Both free.
Then you can turn off System Restore and reclaim the Space on your HDD.
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Just a guess, you picked up some Malware that was affecting your System. System Restore
only made things worse because it only restores System files, not Programs, Data
etc.
Hopefully you Formatted the HDD on Re-install. If not take the time to do Malware
Scans to ensure your system is Clean. Install ERUNT and NTREGOPT.
Disable System Restore.
BW
BW
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On Saturday, September 27, 2008 at 3:19 pm, Hyuga wrote:
>Hello
>
>I recently did a system restore as my pc seemd to be acting a bit off, hwoever this
>was a bad mistake
>>
>>When it rebooted the monitor dispalyed the bios then a little white cursosr then
>no image at all. as I was unable to see anything I had to kill the power.
>>
>>However Upon rebooting again the pc was messed up. When the desktop apeared I notice
>dimmdiately that no icons appeared in the system tray and also I couldnt open any
>ex file or open task manager (later attempts showed the icons appeared but only
after
>5 minutes)>
>>
>>I then tried to restore again to an earlier date & then back to the original and
>neither worked. I then tried a repair, that didnt work and finally a full reinstall.
>>
>>As i mainly chose xp for the safety net of the restore Im somewhat annoyed that
>it seems to of wrecked my machine, as such I wanted to ask if it was the restore
>program itself that wa sunstable, or the fact I kileld the power when there was
no
>image. as until I know xp isnt really worth risking the system restore with
>>
>>Thanks to any replies
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