hello, my system restore was working before i uninstalled norton firewall 2003. i was having trouble with the firewall and free-serve and with emails back and forth to norton and still the trouble i decided to unistall it. i know the restore was working because i checked it a week before. i would be grateful if anyone knows anything , because system restore is a life saver sometimes. i had to down load a patch for it after i bought my p.c but i think you can only get the patch once . thanks for any one who may have an answer. roger

Sounds like you have to use the restore option quite often? why is that?

properly because i was new and in the process of learning i made some big cock-ups, i am hell of a lot better now but would still be uneasy without the restore working.

Sounds like your registry got hosed by norton. here's the full System Restore registry key: ----Begin Copy Below This Line--- REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\PerUser_PCHealth] @="System Restore" "IsInstalled"=hex:01,00,00,00 "Version"="4,90,1,1" "StubPath"="rundll.exe C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\setupx.dll,InstallHinfSection PerUser_PCHealth 64 C:\\WINDOWS\\INF\\pchealth.inf" ---End Copy Above This Line--- To restore this, simply open notepad and copy the text above into it. Copy between the notated lines. Save the file, and name it whatever you'd like. After you save the file, rename the extension from '.txt' to '.reg'. Then, right-click on the file and select Merge. Presto! Registry keys restored.

thanks fjb, when i do what you suggest do i have to have the correct distance between the notated lines or just the text , i think you mean just the text. and do i have to use small letters or capitals or both.if it goes wrong could it affect or damage any thing else.i know the registry is important place. thanks for your time fjb how do you know all this stuff? thanks again roger