System Restore Not Responding - Why??

[jayboy67]

My system restore continues to fail every time I try to create a restore point and it gives me the old "not responding" in the task manager. I found on symantec and someplace else that there are files that need to be re register. Do that and use it maybe 2
-3 times and back to the same thing and everytime it loses the previous restore points. What is happening and is there a permanent fix? Bugging the heck out of me. Have been throuch the reinstall via the upgrade option of XP pro and that doesn't fix. Also
been through a couple of clean reinstalls of XP and all latest drivers in early Dec and had the problem before and after. Where it really get annoying is when Win Update tries to create a restore point before installing an update. This is a critical issue
someone please help!

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

It's possible the SR file store is corrupted. This can be corrected as
follows, go to Control Panel, open System, go to the System Restore tab,
select, "Turn off System Restore on all drives and click apply and ok.
NOTE: this will wipe out all restore points.

Reboot the system as directed, return to the System Restore tab as outlined
above, remove the check from "Turn off System Restore on all drives," click
apply and ok and reboot. Then try System Restore again.

If that fails to resolve it, try the following link:
Troubleshooting System Restore in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q302796


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"jayboy67" > wrote in message
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> My system restore continues to fail every time I try to create a restore
> point and it gives me the old "not responding" in the task manager. I
> found on symantec and someplace else that there are files that need to be
> re register. Do that and use it maybe 2-3 times and back to the same thing
> and everytime it loses the previous restore points. What is happening and
> is there a permanent fix? Bugging the heck out of me. Have been throuch
> the reinstall via the upgrade option of XP pro and that doesn't fix. Also
> been through a couple of clean reinstalls of XP and all latest drivers in
> early Dec and had the problem before and after. Where it really get
> annoying is when Win Update tries to create a restore point before
> installing an update. This is a critical issue someone please help!

[Pavey]

Have you checked your system Restore settings .. right click My Computer, select Properties, then click on the System Restore tab.