Home to Pro upgraded, System Restor edont work.

[Terry]

I upgraded from XP home to Professional and now when I
hit system restore i get this..

The procedure entry point
RemoteAssistancePrepareSystemRestore could not be located
in the dynamic link library WINSTA.dll

Does anyone know how to get this to work again?

Thanks,
Terry

[babuji]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:922664

Hi Terry,

To fix this System Restore issue, follow these steps:

1. Double click My Computer, click the Tools menu -> Folder Options.

2. On the View tab, make sure to check the option "Hide extensions for known
file types".

3. Click OK.

4. Click Start -> Click Run. Type "%windir%\inf" (Without quotation marks)
in the Open field. Click OK.

5. Locate and select the file "sr.inf". Right-click it and then click
Install.

--
Thanks,
Babuji [CCNA]

"Terry" > wrote in message
...
> I upgraded from XP home to Professional and now when I
> hit system restore i get this..
>
> The procedure entry point
> RemoteAssistancePrepareSystemRestore could not be located
> in the dynamic link library WINSTA.dll
>
> Does anyone know how to get this to work again?
>
> Thanks,
> Terry

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Terry,

Once System Restore goes bad, the only thing you can do is stop it and
restart it. Start/run services.msc, locate the SR service and doubleclick
it. Click the stop button, then set the startup type dropdown to disabled.
Click apply/ok, then reboot. Reverse the steps to restart it.

Be forewarned that doing this removes all existing restore points, but it
doesn't really matter as they weren't working anyways.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Terry" > wrote in message
...
> I upgraded from XP home to Professional and now when I
> hit system restore i get this..
>
> The procedure entry point
> RemoteAssistancePrepareSystemRestore could not be located
> in the dynamic link library WINSTA.dll
>
> Does anyone know how to get this to work again?
>
> Thanks,
> Terry

[Alex Nichol]

Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:

>Once System Restore goes bad, the only thing you can do is stop it and
>restart it. Start/run services.msc, locate the SR service and doubleclick
>it. Click the stop button, then set the startup type dropdown to disabled.
>Click apply/ok, then reboot. Reverse the steps to restart it.
>
>Be forewarned that doing this removes all existing restore points, but it
>doesn't really matter as they weren't working anyways.


Two points: With the Winsta not found, doing the reinstall as suggested
by babuji is worth it too. And after rebooting with SR Disabled, I
would have Folder Options - View set to show Hidden files, and *not*
Hide Protected mode ones then open the System Volume Information folder
on each drive and delete all the contents - troubles may have resulted
in there being 'orphaned' files still around

And when setting it up again, I would take the Settings for each drive
and review the amount of space being allocated. By default it is 12% of
a drive, and there is reason to think that this is far roo much for its
own good on modern high-capacity drives. I run SR on C: only and find
allowing it 500 MB keeps about two weeks worth of points, which is
about as far back as is worth going

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

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

I agree with all of this. It's definitely worth deleting the existing
information to avoid conflicts before restarting. Generally, if restarting
doesn't help, then reinstalling is the next step. I also use SR only on C:\
(the system drive) and also have reduced the allotted space to a much more
reasonable 4-5%.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Alex Nichol" > wrote in message
...
> Rick "Nutcase" Rogers wrote:
>
> >Once System Restore goes bad, the only thing you can do is stop it and
> >restart it. Start/run services.msc, locate the SR service and doubleclick
> >it. Click the stop button, then set the startup type dropdown to
disabled.
> >Click apply/ok, then reboot. Reverse the steps to restart it.
> >
> >Be forewarned that doing this removes all existing restore points, but it
> >doesn't really matter as they weren't working anyways.
>
>
> Two points: With the Winsta not found, doing the reinstall as suggested
> by babuji is worth it too. And after rebooting with SR Disabled, I
> would have Folder Options - View set to show Hidden files, and *not*
> Hide Protected mode ones then open the System Volume Information folder
> on each drive and delete all the contents - troubles may have resulted
> in there being 'orphaned' files still around
>
> And when setting it up again, I would take the Settings for each drive
> and review the amount of space being allocated. By default it is 12% of
> a drive, and there is reason to think that this is far roo much for its
> own good on modern high-capacity drives. I run SR on C: only and find
> allowing it 500 MB keeps about two weeks worth of points, which is
> about as far back as is worth going
>
> --
> Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
> Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)