Guest Eric Anderson Posted August 13, 2008 Posted August 13, 2008 Questions: 1. I just found that I only have restore points back to the first week of August, but my computer was received in late June and I have been installing things right along. There is a checkbox that says to check it to get restore points older than 5 days, but that only displays a few more restore points. How do I get it to save restore points older than a few weeks. 2. Is there a way to edit the registry or have it "repaired" for standard Microsoft features that does not require reverting to an older version and losing EVERYTHING you have done as far as installs? Background: Several things do not work as they should and the solution is always to go back to a restore point where they did. Three problems with that. 1. I don't have a restore point where it worked (see above). 2. I have installed a lot of things that i don't want to reinstall just to get a minor thing working again. (I would have to do that, correct?) 3. I did not know that a feature was not working until just now. For example, I just found that the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is not working in the windows sharing area. It recommends....you guessed it..... to revert back a restore point where it did work. I have no idea when that was (probably upon receipt of the computer). I am NOT going to go back there to get functionality of something I have not used yet with the loss of the functionality of everything I have installed. There are other irritating things that are also not working properly. For example, the Security Center service cannot be started. It does not appear to keep the security components from working, but I can't "turn it on". I assume that there is a corruption of something in the registery. It would sure be nice if there was a Microsoft utility that check standard Microsoft registry entries for integrity and fixed those.
Guest Bill in Co. Posted August 13, 2008 Posted August 13, 2008 Re: Restore points as a solution to all problems There is a settings option in System Restore for how much space to allow for the system restore points. System Restore points vary somewhat in size, but I've found them to be about 60 MB, per restore point. So if you want to be able to go back several weeks, you'll need perhaps 2 GB or more of reserved space for it. But whatever you can see now is what you have; you can't get back the older ones that were already deleted due to the limited space. Eric Anderson wrote: > Questions: > > 1. I just found that I only have restore points back to the first week > of August, but my computer was received in late June and I have been > installing things right along. There is a checkbox that says to check > it to get restore points older than 5 days, but that only displays a > few more restore points. > How do I get it to save restore points older than a few weeks. > > 2. Is there a way to edit the registry or have it "repaired" for > standard Microsoft features that does not require reverting to an > older version and losing EVERYTHING you have done as far as installs? > > Background: > Several things do not work as they should and the solution is always > to go back to a restore point where they did. Three problems with > that. 1. I don't have a restore point where it worked (see above). 2. > I have installed a lot of things that i don't want to reinstall just > to get a minor thing working again. (I would have to do that, > correct?) 3. I did not know that a feature was not working until just > now. For example, I just found that the Windows Management > Instrumentation (WMI) is not working in the windows sharing area. It > recommends....you guessed it..... to revert back a restore point where > it did work. I have no idea when that was (probably upon receipt of > the computer). I am NOT going to go back there to get functionality of > something I have not used yet with the loss of the functionality of > everything I have installed. There are other irritating things that > are also not working properly. For example, the Security Center > service cannot be started. It does not appear to keep the security > components from working, but I can't "turn it on". I assume that there > is a corruption of something in the registery. It would sure be nice > if there was a Microsoft utility that check standard Microsoft > registry entries for integrity and fixed those.
Guest Paul Montgomery Posted August 13, 2008 Posted August 13, 2008 Re: Restore points as a solution to all problems On Aug 13, 12:12 am, "Bill in Co." <not_really_h...@earthlink.net> wrote: > There is a settings option in System Restore for how much space to allow for > the system restore points. The bozo multi-posted and his post ended up in Vista.general too. In Vista, it's a completely different animal and more difficult to change... but even the OP might be able to handle it.
Guest Eric Anderson Posted August 20, 2008 Posted August 20, 2008 Re: Restore points as a solution to all problems On Aug 13, 1:12 am, "Bill in Co." <not_really_h...@earthlink.net> wrote: > There is a settings option in System Restore for how much space to allow for > the system restore points. System Restore points vary somewhat in size, > but I've found them to be about 60 MB, per restore point. So if you want > to be able to go back several weeks, you'll need perhaps 2 GB or more of > reserved space for it. > > But whatever you can see now is what you have; you can't get back the older > ones that were already deleted due to the limited space. > > > > Eric Anderson wrote: > > Questions: > > > 1. I just found that I only have restore points back to the first week > > of August, but my computer was received in late June and I have been > > installing things right along. There is a checkbox that says to check > > it to get restore points older than 5 days, but that only displays a > > few more restore points. > > How do I get it to save restore points older than a few weeks. > > > 2. Is there a way to edit the registry or have it "repaired" for > > standard Microsoft features that does not require reverting to an > > older version and losing EVERYTHING you have done as far as installs? > > > Background: > > Several things do not work as they should and the solution is always > > to go back to a restore point where they did. Three problems with > > that. 1. I don't have a restore point where it worked (see above). 2. > > I have installed a lot of things that i don't want to reinstall just > > to get a minor thing working again. (I would have to do that, > > correct?) 3. I did not know that a feature was not working until just > > now. For example, I just found that the Windows Management > > Instrumentation (WMI) is not working in the windows sharing area. It > > recommends....you guessed it..... to revert back a restore point where > > it did work. I have no idea when that was (probably upon receipt of > > the computer). I am NOT going to go back there to get functionality of > > something I have not used yet with the loss of the functionality of > > everything I have installed. There are other irritating things that > > are also not working properly. For example, the Security Center > > service cannot be started. It does not appear to keep the security > > components from working, but I can't "turn it on". I assume that there > > is a corruption of something in the registery. It would sure be nice > > if there was a Microsoft utility that check standard Microsoft > > registry entries for integrity and fixed those.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - I guess I should ask if it is possible to save a restore point in some way "in my own area" that I can keep on a backup drive or something. The system finally blew up and gave me a "blue screen of death" one morning last week. It took me hours on the phone with Dell to recover the thing. Damn good thing I have many backups spread all over the place (paranoid, eh?) I attribute the problem to PC Mover (by Laplink). I did not turn off all the anti-maleware programs, firewalls, etc. before running the thing (there was no instruction paper manual--a file I read later). These MOVER programs (PC Mover, Easy File Transfer, etc) demand more time and expertise and possible problems than just doing the moving yourself. That is what I did and wrote an extensive step by step list of operations to do when you need to restore your system. There are about 26 steps and I probably could list 15 more. Many of these steps would not be covered in one of these mover programs.
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