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XP System Restore
Name: Mark Long Date: April 30, 2004 at 08:15:19 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: 2.66/256
Comment:
I am trying to do a system restore, the checkbox is unchecked that says Turn off system restore but whenever I click on a restore point it goes throufg the process but then says it can't be done as no restore points are available. What has happened to the auto restore point?
Name: Solarian Date: April 30, 2004 at 08:21:41 Pacific
Reply:
Pat:
A few months ago, the same thing happened to me. I cured the problem by disabling System Restore (which deletes all its restore points), rebooted the box, then re-enabled SR.
XP is designed to create a new restore point automatically every 24 hours.
Solarian
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Response Number 2
Name: johnr Date: April 30, 2004 at 09:57:03 Pacific
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How do you get System Restore to create restore points at set intervals? This PC runs 24/7 - last restore point I have is 17/04 when I re-booted after Windows updates. I don't particularly want points every 24 hours, but once a week would be nice :-)
Regards Johnr
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Response Number 3
Name: Solarian Date: April 30, 2004 at 10:42:19 Pacific
Reply:
johnr:
On average, automatic restore points are created once every 24 hours. As far as specifying how often to make a restore point, research didn't turn up a thing; I'm not sure you can.
Looks like it's either XP's way, or nothing. 8-)
Solarian
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Response Number 4
Name: Solarian Date: April 30, 2004 at 10:43:58 Pacific
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PS Of course, you can manually create a restore point any time you like.
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Response Number 5
Name: per Date: April 30, 2004 at 13:41:28 Pacific
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see dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_sysrestorepoint.htm. It allows you to put a point creator on the desktop or wherever.
You can also designate how much space is allocated to the System Restore. I don't think it makes one every 24 hours though... might need to check up on that.
Once I thought I was wrong, now I'm not so sure!
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Response Number 7
Name: El-Trucha Date: May 1, 2004 at 09:25:35 Pacific
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