Resolved But No More System Restore [reinstalling System Restore no help]

I resolved my problem (http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=64697) by restoring to a 5 day old restore point. However, there now remains a possibly related issue that System Restore does not work any more. It does fire up. But if I try to set a restore point it tells me, after I have named the intended point, and hit 'Create' that Windows is unable to create a restore point and to switch off my computer and try System Restore again. But this does not work.

In trying to resolve this I removed all previous restore points by toggling System Restore in My Computer Properties - so I cannot, anyway, restore to an earlier time. However, when I did have earlier restore points I found that, in addition to this specific problem, restoring to earlier points did not work either. Hitting 'restore' after selecting a point did nothing. No message, not even a 'hang' because I could cancel out - but System Restore did not work.

So now everything seems to be working well with the computer remembering its HKLM Software... Run settings - except System Restore is buggered, if you'll forgive the French.

No viruses, no Malware - I'm completely confident. Possibly overenthusiastic use of cCleaner at one stage, though might have originated all this. But sfc /scannow has not helped (did it ever help anything?) and using Zander's old suggestion of running regsvr32 jscript.dll also does not help (although it had worked wonders in 2005 when I had a different kind of System Restore problem).

I appreciate Moderator may wish to move this to a new thread - except I do suspect that everything is related...

Actually - don't respond anyone... I'm going to try reinstalling System Restore first.

...No reinstalling System Restore does not help

 

System Restore Problem Resolved

For the first time ever sfc /scannow appears actually to have worked - or maybe it was just a coincidence. System Restore was able to create a restore point...

 

Thanks Pete
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