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system restore
Name: Rich Taylor Date: December 17, 2003 at 21:26:33 Pacific OS: Win ME CPU/Ram: P-4 1.6 gig/256k
Comment:
My wife's computer is acting like its possessed. I figured I would do a system restore ( I have done this on her computer many times). Now matter what date I use for a system restore point, ut goes through about half way through the process and then reboots without the progress line being complete. When it goes back on, it says that system restore was un successful, pick another point. I'm stuck, the computer is useless in its present conddition.
Name: Dave02 Date: December 17, 2003 at 21:57:44 Pacific
Reply:
Well if system restore isn't working, then you can't use it. You could try System file checker. Click on Start/Run and type sfc /scannow click ok.
Or you could boot from the ME CD and reinstall ME over top of itself, without formatting. That should get it stable again.
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Response Number 2
Name: Leroi Date: December 17, 2003 at 22:18:10 Pacific
Reply:
AFAIK, there is no SFC in Windows ME.
A dirty install might work as suggested above.
Are you ending tasks of everything except explorer and systray before attempting to use System Restore?
Some programs lock certain functions (antivirus?), maybe a clean boot of Windows ME would permit you to restore to an earlier time, or try from safe mode.
Name: John Date: December 18, 2003 at 01:05:24 Pacific
Reply:
Just a guess.Try system restore in safe mode.
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Response Number 4
Name: sonny bancroft Date: December 20, 2003 at 09:22:20 Pacific
Reply:
system restore doesn't work anymore and I seem to wind up with a few virus's and am always having to reformat the hard drive and reload everything to get things to work right
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