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System Restore will not restore.
About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more
slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help. -- Ed Avery |
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System Restore will not restore.
Hi Ed
SR could have had some corrupt files in it when you tried to restore originally. The subsequent success at using SR would suggest that the SR checkpoints with the corrupt files in had been deleted. Is everything working OK now still? -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups "Obadoty" wrote in message ... About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help. -- Ed Avery |
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System Restore will not restore.
The options I would try is -
1. Do a complete system cleanup - go to Windows Explorer, right click on your main-drive, Properties/Disk Cleanup/OK 2. While in Windows Explorer, go to Documents and Settings, expand 'your user-name' in the tree, / Local settings & delete everything in both the Temp & Temp Internet files folders 3. Install both Adaware & Sybot to finish cleaning your system out - they're both safe to use.) 4. Check if that improves your system. 5. If everything now seems to be working fine, right click on My Computer (on the Desktop), Properties, select the System Restore tab, check the 'Turn off System Restore" box, reboot, go back & uncheck that box. -- johnf About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help. -- Ed Avery |
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System Restore will not restore.
Hi Will-Thanks for your input and quick response. Everthing seems to be
working OK now. Ed "Will Denny" wrote: Hi Ed SR could have had some corrupt files in it when you tried to restore originally. The subsequent success at using SR would suggest that the SR checkpoints with the corrupt files in had been deleted. Is everything working OK now still? -- Will Denny MS-MVP Windows Shell/User Please reply to the News Groups "Obadoty" wrote in message ... About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help. -- Ed Avery |
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System Restore will not restore.
John- I do use Spybot. Will Adaware run compatibly with Norton Personal
Firewall? Thanks for your detailed reply to my SR question. Ed "johnf" wrote: The options I would try is - 1. Do a complete system cleanup - go to Windows Explorer, right click on your main-drive, Properties/Disk Cleanup/OK 2. While in Windows Explorer, go to Documents and Settings, expand 'your user-name' in the tree, / Local settings & delete everything in both the Temp & Temp Internet files folders 3. Install both Adaware & Sybot to finish cleaning your system out - they're both safe to use.) 4. Check if that improves your system. 5. If everything now seems to be working fine, right click on My Computer (on the Desktop), Properties, select the System Restore tab, check the 'Turn off System Restore" box, reboot, go back & uncheck that box. -- johnf About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help. -- Ed Avery |
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System Restore will not restore.
Adaware AFAIK, will run with anything installed.
Interesting that you're running Norton Personal Firewall, there've been so many "all-invasive" complaints about their latest products recently. I'd tend to completely uninstall it & also remove ANY traces from the Registry temporarily. then see if you note any change. After all, you do have XP's firewall as a backup. I dumped them about 4 years ago, as their one at the time (Gold, I think it was) started off fine, but after a few months my system slowed down completely - e.g., everything started to slow down, one thing for example I discovered was that if you opened a Word doc., it would completely vet it first before it would allow it to open, usually about 20-30 secs., then do the same when you tried to close it. Also, you could 'disable' it, but parts of it still kept running in the background! -- johnf John- I do use Spybot. Will Adaware run compatibly with Norton Personal Firewall? Thanks for your detailed reply to my SR question. Ed "johnf" wrote: The options I would try is - 1. Do a complete system cleanup - go to Windows Explorer, right click on your main-drive, Properties/Disk Cleanup/OK 2. While in Windows Explorer, go to Documents and Settings, expand 'your user-name' in the tree, / Local settings & delete everything in both the Temp & Temp Internet files folders 3. Install both Adaware & Sybot to finish cleaning your system out - they're both safe to use.) 4. Check if that improves your system. 5. If everything now seems to be working fine, right click on My Computer (on the Desktop), Properties, select the System Restore tab, check the 'Turn off System Restore" box, reboot, go back & uncheck that box. -- johnf About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help. -- Ed Avery |
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System Restore will not restore.
However, be aware that the Windows firewall only monitors incoming, not
outgoing traffic. NIS and Zone Alarm do both. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "johnf" wrote in message ... Adaware AFAIK, will run with anything installed. Interesting that you're running Norton Personal Firewall, there've been so many "all-invasive" complaints about their latest products recently. I'd tend to completely uninstall it & also remove ANY traces from the Registry temporarily. then see if you note any change. After all, you do have XP's firewall as a backup. I dumped them about 4 years ago, as their one at the time (Gold, I think it was) started off fine, but after a few months my system slowed down completely - e.g., everything started to slow down, one thing for example I discovered was that if you opened a Word doc., it would completely vet it first before it would allow it to open, usually about 20-30 secs., then do the same when you tried to close it. Also, you could 'disable' it, but parts of it still kept running in the background! -- johnf John- I do use Spybot. Will Adaware run compatibly with Norton Personal Firewall? Thanks for your detailed reply to my SR question. Ed "johnf" wrote: The options I would try is - 1. Do a complete system cleanup - go to Windows Explorer, right click on your main-drive, Properties/Disk Cleanup/OK 2. While in Windows Explorer, go to Documents and Settings, expand 'your user-name' in the tree, / Local settings & delete everything in both the Temp & Temp Internet files folders 3. Install both Adaware & Sybot to finish cleaning your system out - they're both safe to use.) 4. Check if that improves your system. 5. If everything now seems to be working fine, right click on My Computer (on the Desktop), Properties, select the System Restore tab, check the 'Turn off System Restore" box, reboot, go back & uncheck that box. -- johnf About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help. -- Ed Avery |
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System Restore will not restore.
Sorry, forgot to mention that.
But it was only supposed to be temporary to see if made any improvement over several days - besides, I did say 'clean your whole system first', so there should be nothing going out for a couple of days anyway :-) -- johnf However, be aware that the Windows firewall only monitors incoming, not outgoing traffic. NIS and Zone Alarm do both. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "johnf" wrote in message ... Adaware AFAIK, will run with anything installed. Interesting that you're running Norton Personal Firewall, there've been so many "all-invasive" complaints about their latest products recently. I'd tend to completely uninstall it & also remove ANY traces from the Registry temporarily. then see if you note any change. After all, you do have XP's firewall as a backup. I dumped them about 4 years ago, as their one at the time (Gold, I think it was) started off fine, but after a few months my system slowed down completely - e.g., everything started to slow down, one thing for example I discovered was that if you opened a Word doc., it would completely vet it first before it would allow it to open, usually about 20-30 secs., then do the same when you tried to close it. Also, you could 'disable' it, but parts of it still kept running in the background! -- johnf John- I do use Spybot. Will Adaware run compatibly with Norton Personal Firewall? Thanks for your detailed reply to my SR question. Ed "johnf" wrote: The options I would try is - 1. Do a complete system cleanup - go to Windows Explorer, right click on your main-drive, Properties/Disk Cleanup/OK 2. While in Windows Explorer, go to Documents and Settings, expand 'your user-name' in the tree, / Local settings & delete everything in both the Temp & Temp Internet files folders 3. Install both Adaware & Sybot to finish cleaning your system out - they're both safe to use.) 4. Check if that improves your system. 5. If everything now seems to be working fine, right click on My Computer (on the Desktop), Properties, select the System Restore tab, check the 'Turn off System Restore" box, reboot, go back & uncheck that box. -- johnf About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help. -- Ed Avery |
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System Restore will not restore.
Right.
-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "johnf" wrote in message ... Sorry, forgot to mention that. But it was only supposed to be temporary to see if made any improvement over several days - besides, I did say 'clean your whole system first', so there should be nothing going out for a couple of days anyway :-) -- johnf However, be aware that the Windows firewall only monitors incoming, not outgoing traffic. NIS and Zone Alarm do both. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "johnf" wrote in message ... Adaware AFAIK, will run with anything installed. Interesting that you're running Norton Personal Firewall, there've been so many "all-invasive" complaints about their latest products recently. I'd tend to completely uninstall it & also remove ANY traces from the Registry temporarily. then see if you note any change. After all, you do have XP's firewall as a backup. I dumped them about 4 years ago, as their one at the time (Gold, I think it was) started off fine, but after a few months my system slowed down completely - e.g., everything started to slow down, one thing for example I discovered was that if you opened a Word doc., it would completely vet it first before it would allow it to open, usually about 20-30 secs., then do the same when you tried to close it. Also, you could 'disable' it, but parts of it still kept running in the background! -- johnf John- I do use Spybot. Will Adaware run compatibly with Norton Personal Firewall? Thanks for your detailed reply to my SR question. Ed "johnf" wrote: The options I would try is - 1. Do a complete system cleanup - go to Windows Explorer, right click on your main-drive, Properties/Disk Cleanup/OK 2. While in Windows Explorer, go to Documents and Settings, expand 'your user-name' in the tree, / Local settings & delete everything in both the Temp & Temp Internet files folders 3. Install both Adaware & Sybot to finish cleaning your system out - they're both safe to use.) 4. Check if that improves your system. 5. If everything now seems to be working fine, right click on My Computer (on the Desktop), Properties, select the System Restore tab, check the 'Turn off System Restore" box, reboot, go back & uncheck that box. -- johnf About six weeks ago I felt that my system was bogging down and running more slowly than I thought it should. I accessed System Restore, and received the message "Unsuccessful restoration, use previous day." I repeated each preceding day's restore point with no success. Then I did nothing. After a week everything seemed to be acting fine--until today--when it slowed down again, almost to a stop, after I accessed several files, and then it locked up. Shutdown was the only option. After restarting I used System Restore and it successfully brought everything back to normal from the previous day's restore point. --- What has been happening here and what can I do to keep System Restore working as it should? --- Thanks for the help. -- Ed Avery |
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Cannot drag files in Explorer anymore..!!
Please the New Post button and start a new thread.
-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) wrote in message ... Can someone tell me what I did that now inhibits file dragging in explorer, and how to remedy..?? |
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Cannot drag files in Explorer anymore..!!
Please start a new post with New Post and not Reply Group.
-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) wrote in message ... Can someone tell me what I did that now inhibits file dragging in explorer, and how to remedy..?? |
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