corruption(?) affecting System restore, Send to, etc.

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Problem first noticed that a certain package always hangs
with an error in NTVDM.EXE. Tried System Restore but it
always fails to restore to earlier point on reboot, saying
no changes made. System Restore used to be a lifesaver.
Also found that right-click Send To now only lists the few
default items and not the three or four extra ones I added
months ago - and which are still apparently in my Send To
folder. All non-destructive advice welcome. Thanks.

Am running Win XP Home SP1 with all security updates
(apart from Q329048 and rollup which incorporates it,
since they stop Win XP seeing some archived files in a
ZIP).
 
-----Original Message-----
Problem first noticed that a certain package always hangs
with an error in NTVDM.EXE. Tried System Restore but it
always fails to restore to earlier point on reboot, saying
no changes made. System Restore used to be a lifesaver.
Also found that right-click Send To now only lists the few
default items and not the three or four extra ones I added
months ago - and which are still apparently in my Send To
folder. All non-destructive advice welcome. Thanks.

Am running Win XP Home SP1 with all security updates
(apart from Q329048 and rollup which incorporates it,
since they stop Win XP seeing some archived files in a
ZIP).
.
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Hi: For your system restore problem,turn it off, your
system volume(restore) is corrupted and then reboot, this
will delete ALL restore points,once you restart your
computer turn system restore back on and create a new
checkpoint,it should work fine now.
NTVDM.EXE
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_n.h
tm

Perhaps you should run sfc /scannow ?
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi: For your system restore problem,turn it off, your
system volume(restore) is corrupted and then reboot, this
will delete ALL restore points,once you restart your
computer turn system restore back on and create a new
checkpoint,it should work fine now.
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Maybe, but that means losing all earlier restore points
for good. If there's another problem causing this, should
I be panicked into trying to fix this one?
NTVDM.EXE
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist_n.h
tm
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Thanks. It is indeed a Win 16-bit app that's failing.
Perhaps you should run sfc /scannow ?
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I did: no error msgs generated.

Any thoughts on the Sent To problem? I wondered whether
this meant the user accounts were screwed up somehow. But
I tried putting a different shortcut in every user's Send
To folder, and none of them showed up on right-clicking a
file.

Another thing I should have said: the disk checker
couldn't complete its task on the C: drive. Can't
remember how I found it last night in the absence of
Scandisk: Win XP makes it incredibly hard to find.)
 
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