restore point

Weird link between an old HDD with Win 7 on it and the actual HDD with active win 7 on it Hello, I've experienced today a weird "error", that I even do not know how to search for it. Let me explain: I had win 7 (32bit) installed at job, and worked on it for more than a year. Two weeks ago I...

About to pull my hair out. My son and I have identical systems. His I have been fighting this last year with BSOD from USB Bug Code Drivers. Mine has not had any problems at all. On his - I have reinstalled Windows 7 a couple of times - replaced a video card that had gone out because when I...

An update released today (25-10-2011) may cause issues after being installed when you try to rename or move files/folders. There was another update in April 2010(?), KB980408, that caused the same issues for many people running Windows 7 64bit. So if you find yourself in this position, you...

For several months I have had problems each day when asked to install "Windows Updates", some days I get 4 or 5 updates or more, for a long time it installed all except one. This has now expanded so I have three updates that will not install for some reason. It creates a restore point then tries...

I created a restore point but fatfingered the description and it's bugging me. I want to rename it (the text in the "description" column of the restore point). I know restore points are in the System Volume folder and I deprotected the one for the C:\ volume to the extent I could and tried to...

Whenever I try to run any Administrative tool or some, but not all, programs, I get a message box that says, "Class not Registered". Generally, most of Windows 7 appears to work, but System Restore is broken, can't make a Restore Point, Administrative Tools doesn't work, and a couple of...

My electric power went off after that I have a blue screen at startup after win logo and its restarting after BSOD, i cant login to windows..I run to startup rescue, it says there 0x4f error couldnt fix.. I've done these but its the same: -I turned back to older restore point -Checked RAMs...

Hi. My grandfather called me yesterday and said the other day - his Dell Desktop automatically downloaded Sp1 and Sp2 and once it restarted - he could no longer connect to the internet. *Note - he is connected via a cable to the router* The computer shows he's connected to the router but it...

I am starting a new thread here to post my solution, since so many other threads were opened on this topic. I am cross posting on a number of sites, too, since so many people are having a similar problem. Apologies for that, but I am trying to spread this solution. Took me about six months to...

I have a batch file that I use to: Create a restore point, then swap out my modified system files. I store the "Sleep.exe" file in the same folder as the batch file. The script goes something like: echo Please wait while a Restore Point is made. sleep 17 Take ownership,Rename Replace, Blah...

Hello everyone, Yesterday I experienced 3 restarts in a short space of time. I took the minidump files onto a memory stick before reverting to a manually created restore point (created on 30th May). I also have a restore point just before a windows update was installed on 24th and 25th May...

Hi, i'm having a problem. Few days ago i turned on my pc. Lauched DiRT 2. My game resolution was set to 800x720. All games was set on that resolution. My dekstop resolution was 1280x800. But when the other day i turned on my pc, my dekstop resolution was okey but when i launch any game, DiRT 2...

Here is how it all went down. Playing Age of Empires III with my son, game freezes. Pop out to desk top to see what's going on, Core 3 of 8 is going nuts After a few minutes of the computer hanging: BSOD Auto-restart, windows tries to repair itself, repair fails, suggests restoring from...

First off I'm running Widws 7 Home Premium as an upgrade from Windows Vista Home Premium. I was using our main PC at home this evening when for no reason whatsoever it just shut down and went to restart itself. When it tried to reboot Startup Repair started up instead. It goes through a...

hi guys!.i recently got my video card fixed and updated my computer and turend it off for the night. when i woke up and turned on my computer it didnt work. when i turned it on it booted to the point where the startup sound came and then restarted. it then told me to go to startup repair so i...

Hi everyone, I have recently noticed that i cant get system restore to work.I`ve tried to create a new point and it says ....The restore point could not be created for the following reason, The specified object was not found ( Ox80042308 ) . It did work about 3 months ago. Im stumped. Ive tried...

There is a task scheduled to run at startup named SystemRestore which creates a system protection point. The task completes successfully but the restore point doesn't appear in the System Restore program. Does anyone have any ideas? I am running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1.

All right, I just spent the last hour and a half working on this, so hopefully things work out as well for you guys as they did for me. Earlier tonight I booted up my computer (I'm actually on an Apple iMac, dual booting OS X and Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit) and started up using the Windows 7...

I have dual boot, win 7 and win Xp. Every time i use Win XP, my restore points on win7 are missing. I changed the drive letter on win 7 partition in win Xp with diskmgmt.msc, but still is the same problem. What to do?

Hi,Everyone Earlier today I installed Anti Trojan Elet Program, then restarted my computer as it said, it then failed to boot up, showed a black screen for a few second then a blue error screen, I put her image attachments . Screen also showed up when I tried booting in safe mode. I'd try system...