Comments on: Using System Restore in XP

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:59:56 +0000

I love all the off-topic questions, and the really cryptic ones like “my computer won’t turn on, can you fix it?”

Anyway, I was looking for help for System Restore coming up to an unpopulated (white) window, and never getting past that. No error message, no events generated. There are some similar problem descriptions listed here, with no answer. I’m guessing this may be a dead thread, no longer being checked.

I know what caused it. I installed the multiple IE pack to check it out for web development. I made a restore point manually before I installed, and yep, it screwed me up. Now System Restore won’t start up properly. Even clicking No from the Safe Mode pop-up message. It thinks for a second, then just opens Safe Mode as if I had clicked Yes instead.

Question: Is there a manual way to restore a restore point? Command line option? Anyway, there are not many helpful replies since October of last year, so I doubt I’ll get an answer here. But if anyone else finds an answer, feel free to email it to me: basswhite -at- gmail -dot- com

By: M.J.

M.J. — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:33:28 +0000

My system restore for windows xp wont load, I need to download it. Is there anyway I can download a copy of system restore for xp?

By: chris

chris — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:08:46 +0000

wow, still no response, if anyone has found an answer to Elisha’s question please email me antix990@yahoo.com

By: Elisha

Elisha — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:20:42 +0000

I too am having the same problem as Kate and many others. I click next once I’ve selected a date and NOTHING happens. It doesn’t bring up another window, in fact, I could select the back button to choose a different date. Please help me, I need my system restored ASAP.
As for the creating a restore point, everytime I select that option, it tells me I need to close all windows and restart my computer….after doing that, the same thing occurs.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:03:24 +0000

I had a computer serviced, the tech cleared the hard drive and put all applications in a backup folder on the desk top. They are currently unusable. How do I restore to usable state.

Thanks

By: tony

tony — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:08:57 +0000

I have an HP laptop. The Operating system thats running on it is XP pro. The problem that I’m having is when I try to sign in using my user name and account, the laptop would restart itself. I tried using the guest account and try to log in but the samething happens. Before this incident had occur, it was working fine. Now everytime I tried to log in using my user name and account, and even the guest account the laptop would just restarts itself from the user screen name. Any ideas on how to fix this?

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:49:14 +0000

Hi,

I have a problem with the spell check on Word 2007 on my home computer.

I have two profiles on my computer and the spell check does not work on my one. If I open the other profile then it works. If I look at a document that I created on my side in the second profile it does not work but if I copy and paste it into a new document on the second profile it does work. If I create a new document on the second profile (where it works) and then open it in my profile the spell check can be seen for a brief second and then disappears.

I have checked the Internet and it seems that other people have had the same problem. I have followed various suggestions all to no avail. Someone did suggest restoring the settings on the computer to a previous point and that would not harm any of the files that I have recently created. So, any ideas on solving the problem and would the restore option work?

Many thanks,

Anne

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:29:53 +0000

Hey. I have a question too. Well, one day after i decided to shut off my desktop, svchost.exe error would appear when my system was booting up. Not only that, but my task bar switched to a classic view, and if i ever tired to change it the error would pop up again. So then i decided to do a system restore because i might have touched something, and it made my computer mad… When i tried to do a system restore, the system restore just didnt do anything so it just let it sit at the confirmation screen for about 5 hours.(My computer isn’t frozen though, i can still press the back button and close the program).

No matter what i did, the system restore wouldnt restore my system to that previous date .
i even did “start>>run>>cmd>>net start” to see if my system restore was working and it was….

oh and i have a Dell Demesion 9100 with windows XP

By: edward

edward — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:40:49 +0000

I try to bring up my system restore but all that comes up is a blank screen? I have windows xp. I need to bring it up. I’m having problems with java and other things. Don’t know why.

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:33:39 +0000

My wife has a toshiba laptop and recently she has been having problems with it, like it tends to restart itself without her doing anything, and even now she can not access anything without it hanging and causing her to have to hold the power button down to shut off the laptop is there anything she can do to get the laptop back to factory settings without formating it. I heard she could do the f8 way but she needs more information on how that works, this is our main way of communicating with each other as she is in the Philippines and I am in the US.