System Restore ERROR:: 0x80040154

i NEED my sys restore to work and when i went to go use it it says

there was and unexpected error
class not registered (0x80040154)
Please close system restore and try again..

ive tried again...and again and again.. and the error code help from
microsoft doesnt seem to relate at all to my problem
i hope you all can help me.. THANK YOU.

* Dale:
> i NEED my sys restore to work and when i went to go use it it says
>
> there was and unexpected error
> class not registered (0x80040154)
> Please close system restore and try again..
>
> ive tried again...and again and again.. and the error code help from
> microsoft doesnt seem to relate at all to my problem
> i hope you all can help me.. THANK YOU.

Have you installed any new software?
I'm having a hard time really finding anything
solid about the error. Most of what I've seen
usually relates to some other program causing
the problem. An uninstall of that program fixed
the issue.

This error has many references to other problems,
not so many referring to System Restore.


-Michael

What are you trying to restore when this error pops up.
Make it brain dead simple - every step. You Click this
then this and so on....

"Dale" <> wrote in message
news:66CAD9CF-E391-4075-8496-...
>i NEED my sys restore to work and when i went to go use it it says
>
> there was and unexpected error
> class not registered (0x80040154)
> Please close system restore and try again..
>
> ive tried again...and again and again.. and the error code help from
> microsoft doesnt seem to relate at all to my problem
> i hope you all can help me.. THANK YOU.
>

Dale wrote:
> i NEED my sys restore to work and when i went to go use it it says
>
> there was and unexpected error
> class not registered (0x80040154)
> Please close system restore and try again..
>
> ive tried again...and again and again.. and the error code help from
> microsoft doesnt seem to relate at all to my problem
> i hope you all can help me.. THANK YOU.
>
Very often wording for error message is missleading which was the case
with my problem. Please refer to my post one thread above.

no new software has been installed at all, the reason i need to restore is i
was messing around with permissions on my comp with 3 users, trying to make
our files sharable, and now we are all standard users, and if i try to change
back to admin when i go back to settings it is standard user again. now i
cant modify anything...for ex: cant uninstall or install programs like
iTunes, etc. i even tried deleting all accounts except one and when it says
keep files i say no, its says press ok to delete, i press delete and it just
goes back to the user screen and the account (which im not logged on to) is
still there...all my permissions and stuff are screwed, thats why i want to
restore...UGH!!

"MICHAEL" wrote:

>
>
> * Dale:
> > i NEED my sys restore to work and when i went to go use it it says
> >
> > there was and unexpected error
> > class not registered (0x80040154)
> > Please close system restore and try again..
> >
> > ive tried again...and again and again.. and the error code help from
> > microsoft doesnt seem to relate at all to my problem
> > i hope you all can help me.. THANK YOU.
>
> Have you installed any new software?
> I'm having a hard time really finding anything
> solid about the error. Most of what I've seen
> usually relates to some other program causing
> the problem. An uninstall of that program fixed
> the issue.
>
> This error has many references to other problems,
> not so many referring to System Restore.
>
>
> -Michael
>
>
>
>
>
>

Dale,

It will probably be best to reinstall Vista, or just put the Vista
disk in while at your desktop and do an in-place-upgrade.


-Michael

* Dale:
> no new software has been installed at all, the reason i need to restore is i
> was messing around with permissions on my comp with 3 users, trying to make
> our files sharable, and now we are all standard users, and if i try to change
> back to admin when i go back to settings it is standard user again. now i
> cant modify anything...for ex: cant uninstall or install programs like
> iTunes, etc. i even tried deleting all accounts except one and when it says
> keep files i say no, its says press ok to delete, i press delete and it just
> goes back to the user screen and the account (which im not logged on to) is
> still there...all my permissions and stuff are screwed, thats why i want to
> restore...UGH!!
>
> "MICHAEL" wrote:
>
>>
>> * Dale:
>>> i NEED my sys restore to work and when i went to go use it it says
>>>
>>> there was and unexpected error
>>> class not registered (0x80040154)
>>> Please close system restore and try again..
>>>
>>> ive tried again...and again and again.. and the error code help from
>>> microsoft doesnt seem to relate at all to my problem
>>> i hope you all can help me.. THANK YOU.
>> Have you installed any new software?
>> I'm having a hard time really finding anything
>> solid about the error. Most of what I've seen
>> usually relates to some other program causing
>> the problem. An uninstall of that program fixed
>> the issue.
>>
>> This error has many references to other problems,
>> not so many referring to System Restore.
>>
>>
>> -Michael
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

What worked for me to fix this problem was to reboot, press F8, and
chose the option to use Last Known Good Configuration. Problem was
fixed.


--
mjw9999

More information on this error.

Error message created by System Restore, file backup and Defrag in Windows
Vista:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/eerrormsgsv.html#5

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

mjw9999 wrote:
> What worked for me to fix this problem was to reboot, press F8, and
> chose the option to use Last Known Good Configuration. Problem was fixed.
>