System Restore Points

Hello

I haven't got any System restore Points. Whenever I try to use System
Restore the only System Restore Point is one created as I open System
Restore. This morning I created three System restore points at hourly
intervals however when I looked, just now, they have all gone & I have only
one and that one created as I opened the program. I'm running Win XP SP3 &
have allocated 12% of my hard disk (nearly 6GB) for System Restore. For
quite a while I had only been able to use System Restore to restore in Safe
Mode & now I can't even do that. Any ideas please?

Tony

Tony wrote:
Hello

I haven't got any System restore Points. Whenever I try to use System
Restore the only System Restore Point is one created as I open System
Restore. This morning I created three System restore points at hourly
intervals however when I looked, just now, they have all gone & I
have only one and that one created as I opened the program. I'm
running Win XP SP3 & have allocated 12% of my hard disk (nearly 6GB)
for System Restore. For quite a while I had only been able to use
System Restore to restore in Safe Mode & now I can't even do that.
Any ideas please?

Presumably, you have a 50GB hard drive? If so, how much free space is on
there? (If there is more than one partition on this drive, report the
sizes and amount of free space on each.)

Also, note that certain programs interfere with System Restore (e.g.,
Zone Alarm and Norton). For more info:

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

Some people have reported success using System Restore in Safe Mode
*with Command Prompt*:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449

"Tony" wrote in message
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Hello

I haven't got any System restore Points. Whenever I try to use System
Restore the only System Restore Point is one created as I open System
Restore. This morning I created three System restore points at hourly
intervals however when I looked, just now, they have all gone & I have
only one and that one created as I opened the program. I'm running Win XP
SP3 & have allocated 12% of my hard disk (nearly 6GB) for System Restore.
For quite a while I had only been able to use System Restore to restore in
Safe Mode & now I can't even do that. Any ideas please?

Tony


Along with what Daave posted, if you are running ZoneAlarm Internet Security
Suite version 9.1.507.000, that is probably your problem. Uninstall that
version, then do a clean install of version 9.1.008.000. Back up your
security settings first, then when you install the earlier version (if you
wish to), restore those settings and you won't have to set everything up
again.
If you don't want to use ZA any more, you could always enable the Windows
firewall and download and install Microsoft Security Essentials
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ .
--
SC Tom

"Daave" wrote in message
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Tony wrote:
Hello

I haven't got any System restore Points. Whenever I try to use System
Restore the only System Restore Point is one created as I open System
Restore. This morning I created three System restore points at hourly
intervals however when I looked, just now, they have all gone & I
have only one and that one created as I opened the program. I'm
running Win XP SP3 & have allocated 12% of my hard disk (nearly 6GB)
for System Restore. For quite a while I had only been able to use
System Restore to restore in Safe Mode & now I can't even do that.
Any ideas please?

Presumably, you have a 50GB hard drive? If so, how much free space is on
there? (If there is more than one partition on this drive, report the
sizes and amount of free space on each.)

Also, note that certain programs interfere with System Restore (e.g., Zone
Alarm and Norton). For more info:

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

Some people have reported success using System Restore in Safe Mode *with
Command Prompt*:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449

Thank you. The hard disk is nearer 240GB and contains 6 partitions. I give
below the sizes of each partition followed by the used space & then the free
space. As you can see I've got lots of free space on each partition.

Partition 1 with OS 45GB used 21GB free 24GB
2 165 66
99
3 4 1
3
4 2 1
1
5 20 11
9
6 3 1
2

It is interesting you mentioned Zone Alarm as I am using Zone Alarm Internet
Security Suite but this hasn't "lost" restore point in the past

I have always had to run System Restore in Safe Mode but then I had restore
points to use; now I've lost those and as I said in my original post even
those restore points I created today have vanished. I've made a note of the
MS article 304449.

Tony

Tony wrote:
"Daave" wrote in message
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Tony wrote:
Hello

I haven't got any System restore Points. Whenever I try to use
System Restore the only System Restore Point is one created as I
open System Restore. This morning I created three System restore
points at hourly intervals however when I looked, just now, they
have all gone & I have only one and that one created as I opened
the program. I'm running Win XP SP3 & have allocated 12% of my
hard disk (nearly 6GB) for System Restore. For quite a while I had
only been able to use System Restore to restore in Safe Mode & now
I can't even do that. Any ideas please?

Presumably, you have a 50GB hard drive? If so, how much free space
is on there? (If there is more than one partition on this drive,
report the sizes and amount of free space on each.)

Also, note that certain programs interfere with System Restore
(e.g., Zone Alarm and Norton). For more info:

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

Some people have reported success using System Restore in Safe Mode
*with Command Prompt*:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449

Thank you. The hard disk is nearer 240GB and contains 6 partitions. I
give below the sizes of each partition followed by the used space &
then the free space. As you can see I've got lots of free space on
each partition.
Partition 1 with OS 45GB used 21GB free 24GB
2 165 66
99
3 4 1
3
4 2 1
1
5 20 11
9
6 3 1
2

Unfortunately, the above table is very difficult to read!

It is interesting you mentioned Zone Alarm as I am using Zone Alarm
Internet Security Suite but this hasn't "lost" restore point in the
past

Ah ha!

Refer to SC Tom's post then. It sounds like you are running the
messed-up version.

In my opinion, Zone Alarm isn't even necessary; I wouldn't run it.

I have always had to run System Restore in Safe Mode but then I had
restore points to use; now I've lost those and as I said in my
original post even those restore points I created today have
vanished. I've made a note of the MS article 304449.

Tony

"SC Tom" wrote in message
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"Tony" wrote in message
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Hello

I haven't got any System restore Points. Whenever I try to use System
Restore the only System Restore Point is one created as I open System
Restore. This morning I created three System restore points at hourly
intervals however when I looked, just now, they have all gone & I have
only one and that one created as I opened the program. I'm running Win
XP SP3 & have allocated 12% of my hard disk (nearly 6GB) for System
Restore. For quite a while I had only been able to use System Restore to
restore in Safe Mode & now I can't even do that. Any ideas please?

Tony


Along with what Daave posted, if you are running ZoneAlarm Internet
Security Suite version 9.1.507.000, that is probably your problem.
Uninstall that version, then do a clean install of version 9.1.008.000.
Back up your security settings first, then when you install the earlier
version (if you wish to), restore those settings and you won't have to set
everything up again.
If you don't want to use ZA any more, you could always enable the Windows
firewall and download and install Microsoft Security Essentials
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ .
--
SC Tom


Yes you're right I am running version 9.1.507.000 but unfortunately I've
never had version 9.1.008.000 to roll it back to. My previous version was
only v.8......

I've Googled v 9.1.008.000 but don't recognise the sites it's available
from. Where can I get a copy please?

Tony

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"SC Tom" wrote in message
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"Tony" wrote in message
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Hello

I haven't got any System restore Points. Whenever I try to use System
Restore the only System Restore Point is one created as I open System
Restore. This morning I created three System restore points at hourly
intervals however when I looked, just now, they have all gone & I have
only one and that one created as I opened the program. I'm running Win
XP SP3 & have allocated 12% of my hard disk (nearly 6GB) for System
Restore. For quite a while I had only been able to use System Restore to
restore in Safe Mode & now I can't even do that. Any ideas please?

Tony


Along with what Daave posted, if you are running ZoneAlarm Internet
Security Suite version 9.1.507.000, that is probably your problem.
Uninstall that version, then do a clean install of version 9.1.008.000.
Back up your security settings first, then when you install the earlier
version (if you wish to), restore those settings and you won't have to
set everything up again.
If you don't want to use ZA any more, you could always enable the Windows
firewall and download and install Microsoft Security Essentials
http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ .
--
SC Tom


Yes you're right I am running version 9.1.507.000 but unfortunately I've
never had version 9.1.008.000 to roll it back to. My previous version was
only v.8......

I've Googled v 9.1.008.000 but don't recognise the sites it's available
from. Where can I get a copy please?

Tony

You can get it he
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...seHistory.html
If you have a problem shutting down ZA to uninstall it, or it won't
uninstall through Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, download and run
this tool: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...cpes_clean.exe
--
SC Tom

I've Googled v 9.1.008.000 but don't recognise the sites it's available
from. Where can I get a copy please?

Tony

You can get it he
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...seHistory.html
If you have a problem shutting down ZA to uninstall it, or it won't
uninstall through Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, download and run
this tool: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...cpes_clean.exe
--
SC Tom



Thank you. I had previously looked at that site but the only download link
was for the latest version. The link for the previous version just gives
me the list of improvements.

Tony

"Tony" wrote in message
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I've Googled v 9.1.008.000 but don't recognise the sites it's available
from. Where can I get a copy please?

Tony

You can get it he
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...seHistory.html
If you have a problem shutting down ZA to uninstall it, or it won't
uninstall through Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, download and run
this tool: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...cpes_clean.exe
--
SC Tom



Thank you. I had previously looked at that site but the only download
link was for the latest version. The link for the previous version just
gives me the list of improvements.

Tony

I'm so sorry. That link used to have a download button next to each version.
Don't know why (or when) it was changed.
Try this one:
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...008_000_en.exe
That should work.
--
SC Tom

Thank you. I had previously looked at that site but the only download
link was for the latest version. The link for the previous version just
gives me the list of improvements.

Tony

I'm so sorry. That link used to have a download button next to each
version. Don't know why (or when) it was changed.
Try this one:
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...008_000_en.exe
That should work.
--
SC Tom


That's great thank you. It's downloaded & installed.

Thanks for your help

Tony

Why do you want that trash on your system?
"Tony" wrote in message
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Thank you. I had previously looked at that site but the only download
link was for the latest version. The link for the previous version
just gives me the list of improvements.

Tony

I'm so sorry. That link used to have a download button next to each
version. Don't know why (or when) it was changed.
Try this one:
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...008_000_en.exe
That should work.
--
SC Tom


That's great thank you. It's downloaded & installed.

Thanks for your help

Tony

"Tony" wrote in message
...
Thank you. I had previously looked at that site but the only download
link was for the latest version. The link for the previous version
just gives me the list of improvements.

Tony

I'm so sorry. That link used to have a download button next to each
version. Don't know why (or when) it was changed.
Try this one:
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...008_000_en.exe
That should work.
--
SC Tom


That's great thank you. It's downloaded & installed.

Thanks for your help

Tony

Not a problem! Glad to be of some help.
--
SC Tom

One man's trash is another man's treasure :-)
--
SC Tom

"Unknown" wrote in message
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Why do you want that trash on your system?
"Tony" wrote in message
...
Thank you. I had previously looked at that site but the only download
link was for the latest version. The link for the previous version
just gives me the list of improvements.

Tony

I'm so sorry. That link used to have a download button next to each
version. Don't know why (or when) it was changed.
Try this one:
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...008_000_en.exe
That should work.
--
SC Tom


That's great thank you. It's downloaded & installed.

Thanks for your help

Tony

Must be extremely poor to consider trash a treasure. Even if I didn't have a
penny. I wouldn't
want that trash.
"SC Tom" wrote in message
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One man's trash is another man's treasure :-)
--
SC Tom

"Unknown" wrote in message
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Why do you want that trash on your system?
"Tony" wrote in message
...
Thank you. I had previously looked at that site but the only download
link was for the latest version. The link for the previous version
just gives me the list of improvements.

Tony

I'm so sorry. That link used to have a download button next to each
version. Don't know why (or when) it was changed.
Try this one:
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...008_000_en.exe
That should work.
--
SC Tom


That's great thank you. It's downloaded & installed.

Thanks for your help

Tony

That's an old saying, possibly before your time.
You may not want it, but obviously enough other people do or they wouldn't
still be in business.
My philosophy is if you don't want it, don't use it. Otherwise, it's really
none of your concern. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean
everyone else should also dislike it. I don't like beets, but if you do,
that's fine, and if you were a guest for dinner and wanted them, I'd fix
them for you.
Have a wonderful day!
--
SC Tom

"Unknown" wrote in message
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Must be extremely poor to consider trash a treasure. Even if I didn't have
a penny. I wouldn't
want that trash.
"SC Tom" wrote in message
...
One man's trash is another man's treasure :-)
--
SC Tom

"Unknown" wrote in message
...
Why do you want that trash on your system?
"Tony" wrote in message
...
Thank you. I had previously looked at that site but the only
download link was for the latest version. The link for the previous
version just gives me the list of improvements.

Tony

I'm so sorry. That link used to have a download button next to each
version. Don't know why (or when) it was changed.
Try this one:
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/fr...008_000_en.exe
That should work.
--
SC Tom


That's great thank you. It's downloaded & installed.

Thanks for your help

Tony