XP System Restore

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Hi all,

After many years of trouble free operation using 2000 professional I
recently upgraded to a newer PC with XP urgh- that was a backwards step in my
opinion.

I have had nothing but trouble with programs freezing, hanging for ages and
most annoying of all when I finally reboot it goes straight to Disc Check but
does not allow me the option to cancell this. As a result I then wait an hour
or more for it to do its thing, and invariably it reports that it has found
completly unreadable files and has removed them. I now seem to have more
files that are unusable than working particularly any that were open when it
froze.

I tried to iniatate System Restore in the hope that this would prove to be a
work around, but when I click on the icon nothing seems to happen. I don't
get any error messages, nor do I get any message along the lines that it has
reverted the drive. All the time my hard drive is going beserk, but I can't
escape this screen without it reverting to yet another disc check and another
long wait.

Any advice before I launch this out the window- it really is driving me nuts.

By the way I do know have Go-back installed which works (sys restore still
does not)
also have up to date Norton anti virus from day one as well as Norton
internet security and no problems there.
 
Sun, 9 Apr 2006 03:06:01 -0700 from Ian
I have had nothing but trouble with programs freezing, hanging for ages and
most annoying of all when I finally reboot it goes straight to Disc Check but
does not allow me the option to cancell this. As a result I then wait an hour
or more for it to do its thing, and invariably it reports that it has found
completly unreadable files and has removed them. I now seem to have more
files that are unusable than working particularly any that were open when it
froze.
Click to expand...

It's normal for a file to be unusable if it was open when a program
or Windows froze. But the base problem is all those crashes and
freezes. And "an hour or more" for a CHKDSK doesn't seem reasonable
either.

Have you run a thorough scan of your disk (using scanning software
provided by the disk manufacturer)?

Have you run a memory test <http://www.memtest.org> for at least two
hours straight?

Particularly since you say you have new hardware, I'm betting one or
both of those will reveal a problem.
 
Hi all,

After many years of trouble free operation using 2000 professional I
recently upgraded to a newer PC with XP urgh- that was a backwards step in my
opinion.

I have had nothing but trouble with programs freezing, hanging for ages and
most annoying of all when I finally reboot it goes straight to Disc Check but
does not allow me the option to cancell this. As a result I then wait anhour
or more for it to do its thing, and invariably it reports that it has found
completly unreadable files and has removed them. I now seem to have more
files that are unusable than working particularly any that were open when it
froze.

I tried to iniatate System Restore in the hope that this would prove to be a
work around, but when I click on the icon nothing seems to happen. I don't
get any error messages, nor do I get any message along the lines that ithas
reverted the drive. All the time my hard drive is going beserk, but I can't
escape this screen without it reverting to yet another disc check and another
long wait.

Any advice before I launch this out the window- it really is driving me nuts.
Click to expand...

My 1st reaction is you had a failed installation of XP. Check the CD for fingerprints, or any other foreign matter. This goes for ALL CD's and DVD's.
cat hair, dog hair in the drive.
Then if you can, backup any important data to CD/DVD or another drive.
I've seen it force a scandisk once maybe twice in 2 years use. And alwaysafter a serious BSOD failure.

Everything you've already done and your symptoms would be what I'd do b4 a reformat & reinstall. I don't much care for system restore, cause it causes more problems than it cures.

But if you're not inclined that way, a bit more info. how old are these programs that are freezing ? How much memory do you have, how much disk space ? What machine ? Which programs are failing etc.. If they're the problem, that solutions simple don't use those programs. But XP does havesuch a thing as compatibility mode.
 
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