restore points

Whenever I try troubleshooting internet connection problems (which I often do) I run into the same message time and time again without fail; "The diagnostics policy service is not running" I attempted to go into services.msc and fix the problem, when I attempted to start the service manually I...

Hello, My computer contracted the AntiMalware Doctor/Spyware Suite trojan several days ago. I was able to remove the majority of it, but upon booting AND connecting to the internet I would receive the following message: "Windows has encounterd a critical error and will restart in 1 minute."...

I have been unable to maintain system restore in Windows 7. I run Win 7 Ultimate, both 32 and 64 bit on different machines. Everything starts out OK but after some time if I access system restore I get a message that no restore points have been created and that is the end of that. When I go...

I am using a Toshiba NB305-410BL Netbook with Windows 7 Starter Edition. I am new to Windows 7. In the System Properties>System Protection tab screen of Windows 7, there is a section called, “Protection Settings.” When I first went to that screen, there are two items listed there: “C: drive”...

I recently bought a PC with Windows 7 x64bit. All was working fine and then last night there was a windows update to my machine KB980408 and KB975496, and since then I cannot get network connectivity. I have re-installed the drivers (Onboard Intel NIC), enabled disabled, rebooted etc. I can ping...

OK, full story. I was meddling a bit with the security settings for my C: partition (where my Windows 7 resides) by right clicking the drive and selecting properties > security. The reason for doing so was because I thought someone had meddled with it first, so I was trying to get it back to...

Hi, I'm not sure If I'm in the right spot. I've installed the 64bit Windows 7 and it's great!! However, About once a week my system restore points disappear and the recovery service is shut off. I've tried everything I can find relating "normal" installations but still no luck. In addition...

Alright, I've searched these forums and a number of others and haven't found a solution to my exact problem. Basically what is happening to me is my C Drive where Windows 7 is installed is only saying I have 28gb's of harddrive space left (on a 100gb partition) yet when I've run treeview it...

How do you put a system restore point,while you are in safe mode,mine wont let me,and it wont restore in normal mode,even though it has restore points?

After every reboot I loose all my restore points because "the shadow copy memory was not expanded on time" (translated from german). I have Win7 Home Premium and set the available disk space for shadow copies to 100% (1TB). it also slows down the startup by more than two minutes. here's the...

Hi, First posting. I am trying to figure out why my Win7 Home Premium system doesn't have any restore points, and I seem to have found the problem. "System Protection" is not turned on for the C: disc. When I go to the "System Properties" / "System Protection" tab, under available...

Hello i want to manage system restore points, but in windows 7 you can only delete all restore points or leave them. and i cant delete specific restore points i had create. in win xp i could set the life time of last restore points : Link Removed in windows 7 i didnt find any value like...

This morning I decided to use the System Restore to revert back to a previous state, but after the computer rebooted and everything, I get an error message saying that it couldn't revert because there was a file that could not be accessed(doesn't say which file it is) and I got the error message...

Hello Everyone, I hope your reading this message, after reading, feel free to reply ! Microsoft System Restore is located in Control Panel in 'System'. There is a tab called 'System Protection'. That is where the System Restore is. If you click on 'Configure' you will see something that is...

Updated from Windows Vista a few days ago and now basically any internet browser I use crashes. I get a message that Shockwave Player or Adobe Flash or Unknown Plug-in is unresponsive. I reboot and am able to use the internet for about five minutes and then i get that error message again. I...

I am running windows 7 64 bit home edition. System restore is not working. When I clicked on it, I had no restore points. When I create one manually, It says it created it, but then I close out and go back, and it is gone. Once today, it created one and kept it for an hour or so, but then it...

The NVIDIA Drivers installed by Windows Update when I installed Windows 7 64-bit worked fine on my 2 Dell 24" Monitors but not all the NVIDIA "extras" were present. I receved an email this week from NVIDIA stating that their new driver, 195.62, was available for Windows 7. I downloded fromthe...

I'm running Win7 Pro x64, which is a fresh install upgrade from WinXP Pro x32, installed during the first weekend in November, just a few weeks ago. I've included more detailed specs in my user profile, though I don't think my questions are spec-dependent. I just had the strangest problem. I...

Having installed 7 Home Premium I have been adding programs and configuring them accordingly. I noticed that about 7 or 8 restore points had been created when I installed new video and sound drivers, amongst other events such as removing other programs. I was about to create an Acronis True...

Hello All :) Ive been having this weird problem with system restore ever since i formatted and reinstalled Vista. Now ive upgraded to Windows 7 (new installation) and the problem still persists. If i go to system restore there are zero restore points, even though i have the option on for my...