system protection

There's a new malware attack on Facebook and it's significant for multiple reasons. This attack is particular spreads through bogus links, and it appears to change form in line with news events. While there have been several similar scams in the past, they've usually involved tricking users...

Recently after downloading some apps my system won't bootup properly it does go through the normal process but when it gets to the desktop and is loading it will crash and do the blue screen thing with a system dump, so I thought I would do a restore but it wouldn't allow that because there is...

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...

4 Days ago I downloaded and used a product called LITTLE REGISTRY CLEANER,which cleans the registry. But since that time now I find that System Restore on my Windows 7 Netbooks no longer works. In fact it does not work at all any more,I tried all the restore points and when I try to do a system...

Hi all, I've been on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 since January this year. Before this, I used XP (2003-2010). My problem is that now I'm using Windows 7, I seem to be getting invaded by malware. Since January, I've had over 10 cases of fake antivirus programs and the like (most recently something...

I'm having problems booting into windows. (currently on a laptop running XP) I recently updated my AMD Southbridge driver via "drivergenius" as well as installing an Advanced System Optimizer but i dont think that has anything todo with it. I restarted my pc as stated by the program and upon...

G'day. Trying to shrink my C drive to 40gb for Windows 7. I'm restricted to having it at about half of it's original size. This excerpt copied from sevenforums explains the reason for this. The size of the available shrink space can be restricted by the amount of space currently allocated to...

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”...

Hi, I don't remember when this started, but whenever I boot my laptop it asks for my permission to run update.exe just after the start-up. When i click on Yes to allow it, it shows the following error message: "Run-time error 339: Component 'MSWINSCK.OCX' or one of its dependencies not...

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...

Where are system protection settings stored on the system? In windows XP, this was in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore In Windows 7, this key exists, but the only values available are: FirstRun (what is this?) LastIndex (what is this?) RPSessionInterval (set to...

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...

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I have been using the Win7 64 bit for a while and yesterday, after it crashed a couple of times while is was gaming, I installed the newest nVidia drivers. After this it started freezing right after startup, as the startup programs are initializing. I it to boot in safemode and I reinstalled the...

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...

Sandbox There is an option in the True Image software called Try&Decide. This feature allows creating a secure, controlled temporary workspace on your computer without requiring you to install special virtualization software. You can perform various system operations without worrying that you...

First I did this: 1. In the Control Panel, select System. 2. Select System Protection. 3. In the Protection Settings section, select the D drive. 4. Click on the Configure button. 5. Enable Only restore previous version of files. 6. Set Max Usage to 50%. 7. Click on the OK button. 8. Click on...

Hi, I have quite srange problem with my restore points. I have enabled system protection on my system partition (5% on C:) and it seemed to working fine, but recently, I have tried to recover my computer and I found out, that there were no recovery points. So I created one for the next time, but...

Hi all, I have installed windows vista then windows 7 in 64 bits version in order to get my computer memory higher. They work fine ! I had trouble with both system when installing a firewall or internet security third party (my network config : wireless connection through a gateaway, wifi...

Please accept my apology ahead of time for any breach of protocol I may unknowingly commit. I'm a newby to the forum and didn't want to wait any longer than necessary before posting this thread for help with a problem I've just encountered. The first thing I did after installing Windows 7...