System Restore Wizard is already running.....

Using new Toshiba Satellite U305, Vista Home Premium

I have been making restore points before and after installing everything
during computer set-up. I went to make a restore point and, when I went to
System Restore, I got a message: "System Restore Wizard is already running.
This program will now exit." And it closes.

It turns out the every time I go to System Restore, I get the message
"System Restore Wizard is already running....." and System Restore closes. I
CAN make new restore points but I can't use any restore points because the
Wizard is always already running.

Once, I was able to get to a list of restore points and I did a restore to a
point I made a week ago, before my last installation (a printer). After
doing the restore, the Wizard was still running.

So I tried to undo the restore.....the "undo" failed, there was a quick
flash of error messages with red X's...all I could read was that the "undo
failed", and the computer shut down.

I closed the lid (laptop) and when I opened it, I got message that Windows
start-up failed and that an "auto-repair" feature was at work. The
auto-repair did work and the computer did start up again and things look
normal except that THE SYSTEM RESTORE WIZARD IS ALREADY RUNNING.....

ALSO: during this process, I discovered that System Restore points have NOT
been made every day. They have been made after updates, installs, etc, as
well as my manually-made points....but in three weeks, only ONE System
Restore point was made which appeared to be a "Daily SR Point".

I've looked at everything I know about and this is feeling like it's beyond
my competence. I've enjoyed Vista thus far but this is very unpleasant!!!

Thanks for any and all thoughts and suggestions!
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LIFE IS GOOD!!

Ron in Ri

Unable to help.......I now have the same problem. 6 month old Dell high
spec desk machine, 2.66GHz dual core, 4GB RAM Vista Ultimate.Most
recent software loaded this afternoon latest Skype version
3.6.0.216.(have been using Skype for 5 months without probs), but
machine being going slow for four days and programs from time to time
"not responding". Scanned for viruses yesterday , no contra-indications
in Device Manager, refused to shut down twice therefore had to switch
off manually.


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I spoke with Toshiba tech support. Was told that Vista isn't supposed to
make a System Restore point every 24 hours (which I believe isn't correct).

We did a "Last Known Good Configuration" and the SR Wizard stopped running.

I made a new SR restore point to reflect the return to "Last.....Good
Configuration" and now, again, when I click on "System Restore", I get
message saying that the SR Wizard is already running and that the program
will exit....which it does.

So...I really haven't gotten closer to a solution.....
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Ron in Ri



"Ron in RI" wrote:

> Using new Toshiba Satellite U305, Vista Home Premium
>
> I have been making restore points before and after installing everything
> during computer set-up. I went to make a restore point and, when I went to
> System Restore, I got a message: "System Restore Wizard is already running.
> This program will now exit." And it closes.
>
> It turns out the every time I go to System Restore, I get the message
> "System Restore Wizard is already running....." and System Restore closes. I
> CAN make new restore points but I can't use any restore points because the
> Wizard is always already running.
>
> Once, I was able to get to a list of restore points and I did a restore to a
> point I made a week ago, before my last installation (a printer). After
> doing the restore, the Wizard was still running.
>
> So I tried to undo the restore.....the "undo" failed, there was a quick
> flash of error messages with red X's...all I could read was that the "undo
> failed", and the computer shut down.
>
> I closed the lid (laptop) and when I opened it, I got message that Windows
> start-up failed and that an "auto-repair" feature was at work. The
> auto-repair did work and the computer did start up again and things look
> normal except that THE SYSTEM RESTORE WIZARD IS ALREADY RUNNING.....
>
> ALSO: during this process, I discovered that System Restore points have NOT
> been made every day. They have been made after updates, installs, etc, as
> well as my manually-made points....but in three weeks, only ONE System
> Restore point was made which appeared to be a "Daily SR Point".
>
> I've looked at everything I know about and this is feeling like it's beyond
> my competence. I've enjoyed Vista thus far but this is very unpleasant!!!
>
> Thanks for any and all thoughts and suggestions!
> --
> LIFE IS GOOD!!
>
> Ron in Ri
>

My problem resolved itself late last night......I eventually got the
normal System Restore window and did a normal System restore to 5 days
ago. Don't know what I did that brought the window back. Sorry


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