Restore Doesn't

[Ken Hall]

I made a serious mistake, I believed the restore feature could restore
me to a previous configuration -- obviously not.

What good is this feature?

Over the last 3 days I've been rolling over to/setting up a new
system. At key steps along the way I created restore points, so if
something went wrong I could revert to a working configuration.

Something did go wrong . . . BUT, when I tried to restore, Mr.
Gates said:

Your Computer Cannot Be Restored To:

[whatever point you're trying to restore to]

I have now tried all 7 of the restore points I created. It always
repeats, "Your Computer Cannot Be Restored To . . ."

This is a evil, treacherous feature. It leads you into depending on
it and then, when you need it --- April Fool, Fool, Fool, Fool . . .
Bill gotcha.

Anybody know how to recover a bollixed registry from one of these
restore *NOT* points?

Ken

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

I made a serious mistake, I believed the restore feature could restore
me to a previous configuration -- obviously not.

See "Troubleshooting System Restore in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302796).

 

[Ken Hall]

See "Troubleshooting System Restore in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302796).

Hi Thorsten

Thanks for the reply. It doesn't address my problem, but it's an
interesting article.

Thanks for the try, though.

Ken