System Restore Wierdness

I'm running Vista Home Premium in Virtual PC 7. Just installed latest updates
then SP1. Now restart Vista and check that no more updates available from MS.
Now go to welcome center, show details, system restore and then click on
restore button when it becomes active.

At this point I consistently get a message that system restore has detected
pending updates and I should restart windows first. I do not detect any
remaining pending updates even after several manual restarts but still get
this message.

The only updates I have never installed are the language packs.

This was an issue before the latest update and sp1 installs.

How does one tell if pending updates are actually quequed up?
Is system restore just simply screwed up?
Is it some strange quirk because Vista is running in a virtual machine?

Luckily I've never actually used restore on any of my systems, haven't
needed to. I was just fooly around to see how it worked. Wasn't intending to
actually do a restore.

You may have found a bug in sp2. I would try clearing the catroot2 folder.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822798

--
Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button. Voting helps the web
interface.
http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales....htm#RateAPost

Mark L. Ferguson

..
"WhoCares" <> wrote in message
news:EACF6A21-BAFD-40E1-8FDC-...
> I'm running Vista Home Premium in Virtual PC 7. Just installed latest
> updates
> then SP1. Now restart Vista and check that no more updates available from
> MS.
> Now go to welcome center, show details, system restore and then click on
> restore button when it becomes active.
>
> At this point I consistently get a message that system restore has
> detected
> pending updates and I should restart windows first. I do not detect any
> remaining pending updates even after several manual restarts but still get
> this message.
>
> The only updates I have never installed are the language packs.
>
> This was an issue before the latest update and sp1 installs.
>
> How does one tell if pending updates are actually quequed up?
> Is system restore just simply screwed up?
> Is it some strange quirk because Vista is running in a virtual machine?
>
> Luckily I've never actually used restore on any of my systems, haven't
> needed to. I was just fooly around to see how it worked. Wasn't intending
> to
> actually do a restore.