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System Restore stopped working, restore points gone?

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    Hydro

    Hydro Inactive Thread Starter

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    Anytime I install a new program I will create a new system restore point. But I have notice recently that anytime I check for restore points they are all gone, even if I made them yesterday. I have disc space on max in the system restore setting and this still is a problem for me. Has anyone else experience this problem and can there be something done for this?
     
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    Hello Hydro,

    The first thing I woud check is what the time for deleting the oldest RP is. The default is 90 days. That can be changed thru a register setting.

    If you didn't do it, I can't think of how it was changed - but I think it ought to be checked. I'm not home and don't have access to my manual/documentation so can't tell you where to find that registry entry. So I'm hoping someone will know where it is and eliminate that as a possibility.

    Regards - Charles
     

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    Hydro

    Hydro Inactive Thread Starter

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    I know I personally haven't change any reg settings for system restore.

    Hydro
     
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    H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore. The RPGlobalInterval default setting is 00x00015180 (86400). Make sure that RestoreStatus REG_DWORD value is set to 0x00000001 (1).
     
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    Hello Hydro,

    Bumping this - really curious about this one.

    Can you give us an update?


    lj50,

    Thanks for the Reg info.

    Regards - Charles
     
  8. 2004/07/01
    Hydro

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    I have a partition on my computer and one of the drives are full and apparently if one drive is full system restore may delete some or all restore points. Here is an artical I found:

    Note: If you have a multiple-partition computer with a drive that has almost no free space, this drive may cause System Restore to stop responding all across the system and to delete restore points. However, this only occurs if you have reached the minimum disk space that is allowed and if you perform operations on monitored file types. Examples of such operations are upgrading, uninstalling or installing programs, moving, and deleting or renaming files. If your drive has almost no free space but you only perform operations on non-monitored files, System Restore does not stop responding.

    So far it has been one day and I still have a retore point. I will give it a few more days and check again. I will let you know on what I find.

    Thanks to everyone that replied to my problem.

    Hydro
     
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    charlesvar Inactive Alumni

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    Thanks for the reply.

    Ok, you have two drives being monitored, and one was full.

    Regards - Charles
     
  10. 2004/07/09
    Hydro

    Hydro Inactive Thread Starter

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    System Restore

    Thank you to everyone that helped me on this problem. Just to let you know that I have checked system restore and all my restore point are still there and there are also a system checkpoint restore point for everday now.
     
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