Reinstalling Vista Home Premium

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I'm having a problem with system restore. Restore point are gone after
reboot. Anyway, if I reinstall Vista over the existing install will my
system basically the way it was without much changes and added clutter?
 
JamesJ said:
I'm having a problem with system restore. Restore point are gone after
reboot. Anyway, if I reinstall Vista over the existing install will my
system basically the way it was without much changes and added clutter?
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Unless you get to the root of why your restore points disappear...
you may end up back in the same place after a re-install.

If you give more details youmay get some help.

Especially important would be what you did just prior to the problem...
and software you use...
and external devices...

Also...are you dual booting? etc
 
I have along thread in group: vista.general concerning this and so far
have not found a solution.
In short when I restart my computer restore point(s) are deleted.
They remain during the session but not after a shutdown/restart.
I've gone as far as uninstalling the 2 utilities I have -
PcTools Spyware Doctor and Desktop Mechanic (cleanup tool) and
then creating a restore point but it was gone when I restarted.

James
 
JamesJ said:
I have along thread in group: vista.general concerning this and so far
have not found a solution.
In short when I restart my computer restore point(s) are deleted.
They remain during the session but not after a shutdown/restart.
I've gone as far as uninstalling the 2 utilities I have -
PcTools Spyware Doctor and Desktop Mechanic (cleanup tool) and
then creating a restore point but it was gone when I restarted.
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Well if you are sure you have tried everything...
then I guess you might as well backup your data and perform a clean install.


Next time run your system without Desktop Mechanic...
just a guess, but it might have caused some irreparable damage
 
If James is dual booting with XP then thee lies his answer. System Restore
works differently in XP to that in Vista, therefore, as soon as you boot
into XP it deletes all restore points and shadow copies on the Vista
partition.

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no dual boot

James

John Barnett MVP said:
If James is dual booting with XP then thee lies his answer. System Restore
works differently in XP to that in Vista, therefore, as soon as you boot
into XP it deletes all restore points and shadow copies on the Vista
partition.

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John Barnett MVP said:
System Restore
works differently in XP to that in Vista, therefore, as soon as you boot
into XP it deletes all restore points and shadow copies on the Vista
partition.
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Thank goodness for small favors. ;-)
 
Sadly this little glitch was found out too late to do anything about. The
problem lies with XP, not Vista and, to repair the issue, would require an
extensive amount of recoding in windows XP. As Windows XP is being fazed out
Microsoft deemed it to expensive and time consuming to change the code. Yes
they had loads of complaints, but it looks like their hearing aid batteries
were in need of replacement:-)

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Personally, I think that VISTA has no business making "shadow copies"
nor defaulting to allow up to 15% of one's drive space to be used to house
'restore' points. So if XP kicks it's ass for doing so, it's fine by me. ;-)


DM
 
JamesJ said:
Vista sure doesn't make it easy to adjust "shadow copy" max space.

James
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Hard drive growing by the gigabyte overnight ?

Can't see why ?

Microsoft und Zee Department of Zee Homeland Zecurity can...

;-)
 
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