For Carol - and others who may be interested - I have finally resolved the problem with System Restore. With enormous help from a Member of the windowsme.systemtools NG, it eventually transpired that my problem lay in the Registry. The cure was to use regedit to go to:
KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VxDMon and there change the DelayFirstRstpt value from 1 to 0 Upon rebooting, I was then able to manually create RPs, which are now also being created automatically. M$ has provided a new KB for those having trouble with RP creation. It is at: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q303/3/54.asp where three alternative methods are given. Method 1 resolved my problem - once I realised that a final instruction to replace value 1 with value 1(?) was just another typo ! (I was subsequently informed this error is being corrected). Hope this info may assist other Listers. Jim, in sunny Brisbane, Oz Carol Warman wrote on Sunday, January 06, 2002 4:25 AM Subject: RE: PCWorks: WinME System Restore won't work > Jim: > > Have you seen this MS Knowledgebase article, Q290700? It may have some > relevance. Hope it does! > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=%2fsearch%2fviewDoc.aspx%3fdo > cID%3dKC.Q290700%26dialogID%3d8455928%26iterationID%3d1%26sessionID%3danonym > ous%7c6239552 > > > Carol Warman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________________ > > > > Jim Cladingboel wrote on Friday, January 04, 2002 10:27 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: PCWorks: WinME System Restore won't work > > > > Hi Carol, > > > > I thought I had it made. Following your lead, I was lucky to > > find someone with a similar problem just resolved. From this > > I discovered that the problem was with smgr.dll in > > Windows\System. It should have been updated from v 4.90.0.2533 to v > > 4.90.0.3003 and this hadn't occurred during the M$ download and > > install, even tho the new version was in two other places on > > Drive C. Windows wouldn't allow the old version to be deleted > > or replaced, as it was a "sharing violation". Acting on > > advice received, I downloaded the SR update again, but still the > > old version wasn't replaced. I then rebooted into DOS, and > > replaced the old file with a copy of the new version. > > > > However, while this _should_ have solved the problem, I still > > can't create a restore point, and none was created on the > > reboot. I guess I still have another problem somewhere else...... > > > > Jim > > > > Carol Warman wrote on Friday, January 04, 2002 10:00 AM > > Subject: RE: PCWorks: WinME System Restore won't work > > > > > > > Jim: > > > > > > My only other suggestion is to check out the MS user groups for > > Win ME at > > > the following URL (If link wraps around, it ends in -US): > > > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?PR=news&FR=0&SD=GN&LN=EN-US > > > > > > Scroll down and look under Microsoft Windows and then at > > > Windowsme.systemtools. There are a number of posts from users > > with the same > > > problem. > > > > > > Let us know if you come up with a solution, please! > > > > > > Carol Warman > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ______________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > Jim Cladingboel wrote on Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:04 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: PCWorks: WinME System Restore won't work > > > > > > > > Hi Carol, > > > > > > > > A good thought, which led me to a dialogue box page I hadn't seen > > > > before, but nothing there was checked. Checking/unchecking > > > > (with reboots) didn't work for me but many thanks for the tip. > > > > If you've any other thoughts I would be pleased to hear . > > > > Help tells me that not only can I not create a Restore point, > > > > none has made since the re-install of WinME, so there's nothing > > > > to go back to! I still have over 3 GB on Drive C, so that > > > > shouldn't be the cause. Failing a cure, I'll have to > > > > re-install again so any further advice is very welcome. > > > > > > > > Jim, still sweltering in sunny Brisbane, Oz. > > > > > > > > Carol Warman wrote on Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:21 AM > > > > Subject: RE: PCWorks: WinME System Restore won't work > > > > > > > > > Jim: > > > > > > > > > > I have seen System Restore be disabled by a variety of things. > > > > Right click > > > > > on My Computer, left click on Properties. Click on the > > > > Performance tab and > > > > > then on the File System button. Then click on the > > > > Troubleshooting tab (They > > > > > really buried this one), and make sure that "Disable System > > Restore" is > > > > > unchecked. Another trick that has worked in the past, even if > > > > this option is > > > > > unchecked, is checking it and then unchecking it. I forget > > > > whether a reboot > > > > > is needed in between the checking and unchecking actions. It may be. > > > > > > > > > > Another factor is disk space. Make sure you have enough for > > > > System Restore. > > > > > > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > > > > > > > Carol Warman > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > In order to cure my problems with Error 404, I had to reinstall > > > > > > WinME. I then went to Windows Update to see what items I > > > > > > needed to download (again!) . Some 7 MB of updates needed > > > > > > downloading and installation, including the update for WinME Help. > > > > > > Since that time, System Restore does not work. Trying to make a > > > > > > Restore point before loading a new program I get Bill's > > > > > > message "System Restore is not able to create a restore point. > > > > > > Please restart your computer and run System Restore again." > > > > > > > > > > > > I have done this; scanned and defragged and the problem is still > > > > > > there. Is there anything else I can do? TIA for any > > > > > > advice. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
