How to restore `system restore`

Restore is not reliable program. If you're using as a
back-up you should consider something else.


You can turn it off from Control Panel > System > and
then> re-boot and it will purge it's file. Then re-boot,
turn> it back on.

And try this if the above does not work.

1. Put the in the Windows XP CD
2. Click Start , Run
3. Type the following then OK

rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
C:\Windows\Inf\sr.inf


You can also open Windows Explorer, go to
C:\Windows\Inf folder and right-click sr.inf (Then
Install)








>-----Original Message-----
>Win xp pro..
>
>When I try and use system restore it just hangs and does
not restore to
>previous date/time anyone know how to sort or website
for information on
>this. I have had previous probs with dbx files which is
now sorted, don`t no
>if maybe this is linked in some way.
>
>help appreciated
>Juco
>
>
>.
>

[Juco]

"You can also open Windows Explorer, go to
C:\Windows\Inf folder and right-click sr.inf (Then
Install)"
There doesn`t appear to be a file of that name, there is a file named sr
though.

> "3. Type the following then OK
>
> rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
> C:\Windows\Inf\sr.inf"
Typed this in clicked ok but nothing happened

Juco

> wrote in message
...
> Restore is not reliable program. If you're using as a
> back-up you should consider something else.
>
>
> You can turn it off from Control Panel > System > and
> then> re-boot and it will purge it's file. Then re-boot,
> turn> it back on.
>
> And try this if the above does not work.
>
> 1. Put the in the Windows XP CD
> 2. Click Start , Run
> 3. Type the following then OK
>
> rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection
> C:\Windows\Inf\sr.inf
>
>
> You can also open Windows Explorer, go to
> C:\Windows\Inf folder and right-click sr.inf (Then
> Install)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Win xp pro..
> >
> >When I try and use system restore it just hangs and does
> not restore to
> >previous date/time anyone know how to sort or website
> for information on
> >this. I have had previous probs with dbx files which is
> now sorted, don`t no
> >if maybe this is linked in some way.
> >
> >help appreciated
> >Juco
> >
> >
> >.
> >

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In ,

> typed:

> Restore is not reliable program. If you're using as a
> back-up you should consider something else.


System Restore is not a cure for all problems, and is certainly
not a substitute for a backup. But it is a very useful feature,
one that has gotten me and many others out of trouble many times.

To even suggest that it could be used as a backup program shows
that you have no idea of what it does.


> You can turn it off from Control Panel > System >


That would be a foolish thing to do.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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[Alex Nichol]

Juco wrote:

>"You can also open Windows Explorer, go to
>C:\Windows\Inf folder and right-click sr.inf (Then
>Install)"
>There doesn`t appear to be a file of that name, there is a file named sr
>though.

You may have Folder Options View set to hide extensions of registered
file types: That is not a good ida if you are doing anything with the
system - and I'm against having it on at all; it makes it that much
easier for some of the trojan nasties to slip in pretending to be
something innocent.



--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)