system restore will not run (visibly)

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igor

I have used XP's system restore many times, though not in the past few
months. I am running SP1. Now, when I try to run it, nothing _visible_
happens. In Task mgr, rstrui.exe is shown as running in processes, but not
in Applications.

I have tried starting in safe mode|command prompt, to no avail and get the
same result. (If I try to start restore when it is already "running", I do
get a window to pop-up, but it is blank/white.)

I also followed directions at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302796
compmgmt.msc did not show any evidence of system restore, but running Net
Start did show that restore is activated. I could not find any evidence of
system restore in the event viewer (following the directions at the MSKB
link). I do have plenty of disk room for restore files and the setting is
at max. (I only track logical drives C and D; other logical drives are not
tracked.)

I tried uninstalling Norton AV and McAfee's firewall, but still nothing
happens.

BTW, otherwise, Windows seems to be running.

Any ideas -- especially ideas that do _not_ require trashing all restore
files and starting over? If I do need to rebuild/repiar system restore, a
pointer to instructions for that would be appreciated.

Thanks. -- Igor
 
How many restore points are there now?
The classic fix is to disable System Restore on all drives, reboot, and
re-enable System Restore on your system drive. You will lose all restore
points but it sounds like restore points several months old are useless
anyway. There may be recent daily restore points, however.
 
Thanks. There are daily restore points. Besides, I cannot even start
system restore, so turning it on or off is not currently possible.
 
Problem solved -- a Norton issue. Thanks.

How many restore points are there now?
The classic fix is to disable System Restore on all drives, reboot, and
re-enable System Restore on your system drive. You will lose all restore
points but it sounds like restore points several months old are useless
anyway. There may be recent daily restore points, however.
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I gald that its fixed,but just so you know in the future you do not need to
access SR to shut it off, if that was the case their would only be 4 or 5
computers worldwide that it still worked on.
Right click my computer select properties then the SR tab,and put a check in
the box "turn off SR".
 
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