restore point

I have an HP laptop that came with Windows 8 installed. One of the automatic updates ran and changed pathways to my files. If I click on Libraries, my documents, music, and pics that were there before the upgrade are not there now. I have to click c:/users/myusername/ then whichever folder...

Hello, My machine has been running a bit sluggish recently. After running various clean up tools this does not seem to change the performance on boot up and i still get a few errors that come up sometimes. I have been searching the internet and found this site answered a couple of the issues i...

Hello! Got problems with Start up. I decided to copy all DLL files from RecoveryCD System32 to the %windir%\System32 in hope it will help to start it. Now it does'nt matter what I chose in the Boot Menu ... it always boots a Start-up Recovery like if it was from a Recovery Boot CD. I tried to...

Win 7, Home Premium, 64 Every time I reboot my machine I get a volsnap Event 25 error: "The shadow copies of volume C: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time. Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being...

I booted up and get the shown below window error messages. Restore points fail, When trying to get to the system protection I was getting Windows explorer stopped and is restarting. But it let up. I also get Windows media player has stopped working when trying to play a video. I run a RAID1...

Hi i install baidu pc faster and then i removed using revo uninstaller this operation in successful but i uninstall another program restore point failed to create and i unable to shutdown . i restart by (restart normally option) after delete some folder c: program c: program data it run...

How do I change the amout of storage reserved for SystemRestorePoints on partition D? Is there a Registry entry for that? As I found out the current number of days my RestorePoints are kept is 90 days. How can I increase these number of days? Is there a Registry entry for that? If I change...

Hi After having a failed attempt to go back to an earlier restore point (the computer just sat there for ever saying that it was restoring the registry, so I finally shut it off) my computer wouldn't boot so I tried several attempts at automatic repair from the disk etc. I started getting a...

Hi I'm pretty reliable as far as creating restore points before I do anything major. The problem is that when I look for them later they aren't there. Even though I use an app called Restore Point Creator and make my own they don't hang around very long. Is there a way to make Windows retain...

Hi everyone, I'm new here, looking forward to speaking with you all. Hopefully I'm posting in the right area! :) I help my mom with most of her computer issues, and I'm usually able to troubleshoot most of them without much difficulty, but today I've encountered a real whopper that I just...

Hi Today I was getting a little audio distortion in a new game I'm trying out. So I decided to update the drivers for my Creative SB Recon3D PCIe sound card. The problem was probably with the game not the drivers but I figured what the heck I might as well keep things up to date. I downloaded...

I'm stuck at this screen. Starting Windows normally sends me back, and startup repair "can not fix this computer automatically". Choosing the other modes sends me back as well. I don't have a restore point, and I don't want to reinstall windows and lose all my files for a 2nd time in just a...

Hello there! On Friday, I started having a problem with my system, running Windows 7 Ultimate, where I get a BSOD right at the login screen. Computer boots up normally, the blue login screen pops up, and immediately goes to the BSOD with BAD_POOL_HEADER at the top. It then will go back through...

Recently managed to brick my computer by trying to clear up some space on my C: drive. I checked 'Compress Drive'. The problem is when I boot up my laptop it goes straight to a blank screen with the following: WIDTM is compressed. Press ctrl+alt-del to restart. I can't access safe mode. I can...

I am unable to repair create windows restore point, I have attached few image. can any body please help me out. I use Windows 7 64Bite Thank you!!

Hi I updated my video drivers and it screwed up some settings. I want to use a restore point to restore the settings to before I updated. I can see in CCleaner that I have restore points from before the update, but I can't find anyplace in Windows 8 to use one of them. Mike

On my system I have an SSD,so I have (Windows Restore) turned off. When I download a program and try to install it ,it says creating a Restore Point and sits there for a while. A log while. I have found that I can go into Safe Mode and install things with no problem,fast. Even after it is...

I bought a computer with windows 7 pre-installed, it expired, I got black screened, I used up all of my restore points,............ Should I just order a windows 7 OS directly from microsoft?

Trying Windows 8 at work and bought new Samsung 700t tablet. Windows 8 works fine with local user (linked to live id) and all our software including Symantec Endpoint 12.1.2. As soon as I join to domain (server 2008) and reboot the live tiles no longer function. Have total reset several times...

Does file history also create a restore point? It was nice to have that restore point to where is you blue screened you could reboot and restore to a recent, previous system state. Doesn't really say anything in the file history settings page, and I'm curious. Thanks for any insight...