restore points

I want to use the feature of System Restore Points but I don't want to use Volume Shadow Copies. Is it possible to disable the first but let the second feature be enabled? From what I read so far it does not become clear if this is possible at all. Are VSC a pre-condition to use SRPs? If...

Hello all, I am new to this site so if this is in the wrong forum I apologize and move it is possible. Laptop has been acting up over the last couple of months. First off I run Windows 7 home pro on a Sager system (2 years old) and AGV antivirus a the time, now McAfee antivirus. I have ran...

went,t to open system restore ,no restore points, when i tried to create one i get this error,not enough space on disk i have it set at 12g.max,will up load pic,also checked out some fixs from forum thanks for any help you can give me on this.

I just purchased a new PC and have a problem with File History restoring multiple copies of files. I am using the same external hard drive I used with my old computer. I copied the files I needed from File History back to the hard drive of my new computer. I then turned file history on to...

Specs: Motherboard: FOXCONN 2A92 Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 RAM: 6 GB OS: Windows 7 SP 1 When I started my computer this morning, I got an immediate BSOD after logging into my account. Trial and error eventually narrowed the cause down to establishing a network connection, which was done...

There are a number of old posts regarding this problem and some people were able to fix their problem using the guidance provided. However, many people, including myself, were tearing their hair out because none of the provided suggestions worked. The suggestions included: ensuring Volume...

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! 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...

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 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...

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...

I cant say I've ever actually seen my BSOD, but Windows claims to be recovering from one. This has been going on for the last 4 months. This computer was built in 2011 mid year. I've been assuming that this is a video card issue due to it only happening when the graphics card is "intensely" in...

I had a dual boot on my computer which was XP and Windows 8 Beta. I put the Windows 8 upgrade on XP. Now I have two Windows 8 that I can boot into. My computer say that my C drive is my system, and Default drive. However my Windows 8 upgrade in my D drive because it has Windows old on it. Now...

hi everybody, I built a Win 7 PC for recording MIDI and everything was going fine until recently the main application that I use has been crashing. I've talked to the manufacturers and they can't figure it out,but I have a feeling it's from some updates I did on Oct 20th 2012. I looked in my...

My son in his haste, installed the system disk and loaded windows again. Now I have a folder windows.old created. Can I just simply copy folders back to root drive? There is no restore points to go to ,the laptop is new. I have reloaded most of the drivers but there are some programs in the...

Hi all, I am new to the forums and I'm here out of desperation. I bought my wife a Dell Inspiron Zino HD with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled about 3 years ago. It has been working well since, with a few hiccups here and there. Three days ago it started behaving really badly: it would boot...

I recently had to replace some bad memory which caused my home built system to fail to boot into Windows. I have a dual-boot (XP on one HD, and Win7 on a separate HD). The system has been running smoothly for more than a year until the failed RAM module. I can boot into XP, but not into...