System restore in specific order?

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I have lost a very important program access through some glitch I made myself. The probrlem is this: I need to restore back to the point that this program was working ... I have tried every 'check point' and some restore points I set myself. It will not restore to those points, only goes through the procedure, then shuts down, comes alive again, then when I click on my user name, it says, "system cannot be restored to that point. No changes have been made." I tried several.
However, yesterday I set a NEW system restore point, and today I successfully restored to it. My question is --- Do I need to restore only one point at a time and progressively work backwards to the time I need? Anyone tried this?to get back several days or weeks
Thanks
 
Bobw said:
I have lost a very important program access through some glitch I
made myself. The probrlem is this: I need to restore back to the
point that this program was working ... I have tried every 'check
point' and some restore points I set myself. It will not restore to
those points, only goes through the procedure, then shuts down, comes
alive again, then when I click on my user name, it says, "system
cannot be restored to that point. No changes have been made." I tried
several. However, yesterday I set a NEW system restore point, and
today I successfully restored to it. My question is --- Do I need to
restore only one point at a time and progressively work backwards to
the time I need? Anyone tried this?to get back several days or
weeks?
Thanks
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There is no "special procedure". The points have become corrupt and you must
purge them (turn off system restore and then turn it back on). They cannot
be recovered.

This just begs one question - why can't you reinstall the application from
its installation disc(s)?
 
I cannot reinstall the program because the copy protection only give you three installs, which I have used because of system crashes. You keep them if you UNinstall at their website. Otherwise you lose them. I have already pleaded with them several times to revalidate me, and they did just that about a week ago, but then everything went awry again. So without the restore I lose the program AND the writing files I have in it.
:)
Bob
 
Hi Bob

System Restore doesn't monitor data files. So unless you have manually adapted SR to monitor those files, you won't be able to recover them using System Restore.

The checkpoints that can't be restored could be corrupted and you will need to delete them:

1. To delete all but the last checkpoint created - Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup - select appropriate drive/partition then the More Options tab - last box 'System Restore'>Cleanup.

2. To delete all checkpoints - Right click on My Computer, select Properties and then the System Restore tab. Enable 'Turn off System Restore on all drives' - Apply>OK and then reboot your PC. After that reboot, go back in System Restore and disable 'Turn off System Restore on all drives' - Apply>OK and reboot your PC a 2nd time. System Restore will create a new checkpoint after this 2nd reboot.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| I cannot reinstall the program because the copy protection only give you three installs, which I have used because of system crashes. You keep them if you UNinstall at their website. Otherwise you lose them. I have already pleaded with them several times to revalidate me, and they did just that about a week ago, but then everything went awry again. So without the restore I lose the program AND the writing files I have in it.
| :)
| Bob
 
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