System Restore

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betty

I am running Windows XP and need to do a system restore to 12-26-2008.
However, in the wizard, the earliest date the calendar will allow me to
select is 1-2-2009. Any ideas?
 
Hank, is something wrong with the website? When I type in the address you
gave, all I get is a picture with the heading "Are you up that creek without
a paddle?" (which I may be). But I don't see anything I can click on to get
an article. Thanks.
 
betty said:
I am running Windows XP and need to do a system restore to 12-26-2008.
However, in the wizard, the earliest date the calendar will allow me to
select is 1-2-2009. Any ideas?
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Betty

If you have used any 'cleaning' program, or reduced the disk space for
restore points to be saved, that would cause you to only have reduced choice
re restore points. There is no way back..

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Hank, is something wrong with the website? When I type in the address you
gave, all I get is a picture with the heading "Are you up that creek without
a paddle?" (which I may be). But I don't see anything I can click on to get
an article. Thanks.
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Are you a blonde?
 
He jokingly means you're out of luck.
betty said:
Hank, is something wrong with the website? When I type in the address you
gave, all I get is a picture with the heading "Are you up that creek
without
a paddle?" (which I may be). But I don't see anything I can click on to
get
an article. Thanks.
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Where the restore date calendar comes up, click at the left-hand top of it,
to go back to December.
 
Betty

If you do not have a restore point earlier than 2 January 2009 you will
have to find another way to resolve the problem. If you explain the
problem someone here may be able to suggest a way forward.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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I am running Windows XP and need to do a system restore to 12-26-2008.
However, in the wizard, the earliest date the calendar will allow me to
select is 1-2-2009. Any ideas?
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Not going to help now , but I use the ERUNT system which saves up to 1
months restore settings , 1 for each day . ( You can choose whichever
day you require ) .
 
Not going to help now , but I use the ERUNT system which saves up to 1
months restore settings , 1 for each day . ( You can choose whichever
day you require ) .
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All fine advice, but it prompts for me a question looking at my own
system...

I know I can manually create a restore point. Windows will also do it
for me when I do updates, etc. Some days I can see several restore
points depending on what I did that day.

Sometimes, I see several days in a row where I know my computer was
on, but there are no restore points for those days.

Somehow I thought Windows would do this for me automatically for some
reason at some time, and at least once a day or something, even if I
did not know about it. Could be wrong... There is no restore point
for today yet, but there are single System Checkpoints for other days
at various times. I didn't do it manually.

Does the absence of restore points for days at a time mean that I did
not significantly change my configuration on those days? (notice I
did not say I didn't do any work). What prompts Windows to create a
System Checkpoint by itself, when does it decide to do it, etc.

Just curious.
 
Jose

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srauto.html

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Hope  this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Oh, wow. I checked the Windows XP SP3 configuration I am running and
it is set to automatically create a RP at 8:30AM every day. No errors
or problems reported in the Event Viewer. Everybody seems very happy.

I looked at the timestamp on some of the older RPs that were created
automajically on earlier days. Some were around 8:30AM, some at other
odd times, some due to installs/uninstalls, some days - none at all.

Not to be redundant with my post, but I really must know everything.
Poking around where you pointed (thanks) I read this as one reason SR
might not run:

Insufficent Idle time

* Automatic restore points are only created during idle time; for
example, when there is no mouse, keyboard, or disk i/o activity.

1. If the system is in use the entire time it is turned on, then
turned off, an automatic restore point will NOT be created.
2. Some screen savers my cause little or no idle time, so temporally
disable all screen savers while troubleshooting.

Wellll... I doubt my system is going to be idle at 8:30AM, it might
not even be turned on. Sometimes I will get done for the day, run
some long arse scanning programs for a couple hours (ugh) and just go
away and shutdown later. This would not be considered idle time I
don't think. Things are happenin'!

So that could be it, but I can't explain the odd times in the
afternoon that SR ran with no other information in the SR details
except it was a checkpoint. It is way past time for it to run, but I
might have been really idle for a while, so does SR just decide that a
checkpoint might be overdue and lurk around waiting until it decides
now looks like a good time to run (whenever now happens to be) ? How
long is "idle time"? Not long for me apparently.

Still no one today, but I will go play some Frisbee for a while and
see what happens...
 
Oh, wow.  I checked the Windows XP SP3 configuration I am running and
it is set to automatically create a RP at 8:30AM every day.  No errors
or problems reported in the Event Viewer.  Everybody seems very happy.

I looked at the timestamp on some of the older RPs that were created
automajically on earlier days.  Some were around 8:30AM, some at other
odd times, some due to installs/uninstalls, some days - none at all.

Not to be redundant with my post, but I really must know everything.
Poking around where you pointed (thanks) I read this as one reason SR
might not run:

Insufficent Idle time

* Automatic restore points are only created during idle time; for
example, when there is no mouse, keyboard, or disk i/o activity.

1. If the system is in use the entire time it is turned on, then
turned off, an automatic restore point will NOT be created.
2. Some screen savers my cause little or no idle time, so temporally
disable all screen savers while troubleshooting.

Wellll...  I doubt my system is going to be idle at 8:30AM, it might
not even be turned on.  Sometimes I will get done for the day, run
some long arse scanning programs for a couple hours (ugh) and just go
away and shutdown later.  This would not be considered idle time I
don't think.  Things are happenin'!

So that could be it, but I can't explain the odd times in the
afternoon that SR ran with no other information in the SR details
except it was a checkpoint.  It is way past time for it to run, but I
might have been really idle for a while, so does SR just decide that a
checkpoint might be overdue and lurk around waiting until it decides
now looks like a good time to run (whenever now happens to be) ?  How
long is "idle time"?  Not long for me apparently.

Still no one today, but I will go play some Frisbee for a while and
see what happens...
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Looks like idle time is about 30 minutes. Happy birthday, checkpoint.
 
Oh, wow.  I checked the Windows XP SP3 configuration I am running and
it is set to automatically create a RP at 8:30AM every day.  No errors
or problems reported in the Event Viewer.  Everybody seems very happy.

I looked at the timestamp on some of the older RPs that were created
automajically on earlier days.  Some were around 8:30AM, some at other
odd times, some due to installs/uninstalls, some days - none at all.

Not to be redundant with my post, but I really must know everything.
Poking around where you pointed (thanks) I read this as one reason SR
might not run:

Insufficent Idle time

* Automatic restore points are only created during idle time; for
example, when there is no mouse, keyboard, or disk i/o activity.

1. If the system is in use the entire time it is turned on, then
turned off, an automatic restore point will NOT be created.
2. Some screen savers my cause little or no idle time, so temporally
disable all screen savers while troubleshooting.

Wellll...  I doubt my system is going to be idle at 8:30AM, it might
not even be turned on.  Sometimes I will get done for the day, run
some long arse scanning programs for a couple hours (ugh) and just go
away and shutdown later.  This would not be considered idle time I
don't think.  Things are happenin'!

So that could be it, but I can't explain the odd times in the
afternoon that SR ran with no other information in the SR details
except it was a checkpoint.  It is way past time for it to run, but I
might have been really idle for a while, so does SR just decide that a
checkpoint might be overdue and lurk around waiting until it decides
now looks like a good time to run (whenever now happens to be) ?  How
long is "idle time"?  Not long for me apparently.

Still no one today, but I will go play some Frisbee for a while and
see what happens...
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Looks like idle time is about 30 minutes for me. Happy birthday,
checkpoint.

Oh yeah, now I see that you can schedule multiple CPs to happen pretty
much as frequently as you want whenever you want, even at system
startup, as long as it is idle time (which you can also define).
There are other "rules". If one would Google "xp system checkpoint
idle time" there is a whole bunch of stuff to read.

Live & learn. Thanks, everyone.
 
Jose

Now you know more than me <G> You may be able to change the time from
8.30. Have a look in Task Scheduler.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Jose

Now you know more than me <G> You may be able to change the time from
8.30. Have a look in Task Scheduler.

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Hope  this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Well, I doubt that, sir! Yeah - its all there if you patiently
look... It helped me to still read some of the other discussions and
rules, like if I manually create a CP at 10AM and one is supposed to
fire off automatically at 12PM (2 hours later) will that second one
still happen? Hmmm?

Let's have a quiz in 2 weeks ;)
 
Why do you have such a fixation on System Restore? It's nothing more
than a troubleshooting step.
 
It can be a lifesaver in some cases, Leonard. Although admitedly not as
good as falling back to an image or clone backup. It's not just s
troubleshooting step.
 
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