sysme restore does not work

I've always relayed on Windows' Sytem Restore when everything else has
failed. So I'm quite alarmed now using Vista Ultimate to discover that it
does not work anymore. Now, I have to machines: a desktop and a laptop, both
running Vista. The first time I tried a system restore on the desktop it
failed (there was a message at the end of the long restore process saying
so, and the problem I was trying to solve remained). I read a solution (or a
work-around) somewhere that made it work: starting system restore from
safe-mode. That worked, although it made me re-install several applications,
something I never experienced with XP. Yesterday I ran into trouble with a
program I've been using for a long time this time on the laptop. After not
being able to solve it I tried the SR. You guessed: failed! But this time
not even the safe-mode made it work. Now that's a 100% failure rate for me
(on two separate hardwares).

Has anybody else had the same problem? Solution?

Thanks

Billinares;92151 Wrote:
> I've always relayed on Windows' Sytem Restore when everything else ha
> failed. So I'm quite alarmed now using Vista Ultimate to discover tha
> it does not work anymore. Now, I have to machines: a desktop and
> laptop, both running Vista. The first time I tried a system restore o
> the desktop it failed (there was a message at the end of the lon
> restore process saying so, and the problem I was trying to solv
> remained). I read a solution (or a work-around) somewhere that made i
> work: starting system restore from safe-mode. That worked, although i
> made me re-install several applications, something I never experience
> with XP. Yesterday I ran into trouble with a program I've been using fo
> a long time this time on the laptop. After not being able to solve it
> tried the SR. You guessed: failed! But this time not even the safe-mod
> made it work. Now that's a 100% failure rate for me (on two separat
> hardwares).
>
> Has anybody else had the same problem? Solution?
>
> Thanks

Hope 'Cannot create a System Restore Point in Windows Vista.
(http://www.winvistaclub.com/t89.html) helps yo

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Why would an article devoted to *setting* a System Restore Point help OP
Restore the system to a former Point? Are you suggesting that the SR storage
is corrupt and needs to be rebuilt before it will work again, losing all
stored Points in the process?

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"HappyAndyK" <> wrote in message
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>
> Billinares;92151 Wrote:
>> I've always relayed on Windows' Sytem Restore when everything else has
>> failed. So I'm quite alarmed now using Vista Ultimate to discover that
>> it does not work anymore. Now, I have to machines: a desktop and a
>> laptop, both running Vista. The first time I tried a system restore on
>> the desktop it failed (there was a message at the end of the long
>> restore process saying so, and the problem I was trying to solve
>> remained). I read a solution (or a work-around) somewhere that made it
>> work: starting system restore from safe-mode. That worked, although it
>> made me re-install several applications, something I never experienced
>> with XP. Yesterday I ran into trouble with a program I've been using for
>> a long time this time on the laptop. After not being able to solve it I
>> tried the SR. You guessed: failed! But this time not even the safe-mode
>> made it work. Now that's a 100% failure rate for me (on two separate
>> hardwares).
>>
>> Has anybody else had the same problem? Solution?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Hope 'Cannot create a System Restore Point in Windows Vista.'
> (http://www.winvistaclub.com/t89.html) helps you
>
>
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If you Restore to a date before the applications were originally installed,
you lose them.
It was that way in XP as well.
That is the way System Restore is supposed to work.

And, if you are using Norton, it causes probs with SR.
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Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Billinares" wrote:

> I've always relayed on Windows' Sytem Restore when everything else has
> failed. So I'm quite alarmed now using Vista Ultimate to discover that it
> does not work anymore. Now, I have to machines: a desktop and a laptop, both
> running Vista. The first time I tried a system restore on the desktop it
> failed (there was a message at the end of the long restore process saying
> so, and the problem I was trying to solve remained). I read a solution (or a
> work-around) somewhere that made it work: starting system restore from
> safe-mode. That worked, although it made me re-install several applications,
> something I never experienced with XP. Yesterday I ran into trouble with a
> program I've been using for a long time this time on the laptop. After not
> being able to solve it I tried the SR. You guessed: failed! But this time
> not even the safe-mode made it work. Now that's a 100% failure rate for me
> (on two separate hardwares).
>
> Has anybody else had the same problem? Solution?
>
> Thanks
>