Self Correcting PC?

Up to Saturday 23 Oct’04 my PC was trouble-free but all the next day one application after another was misbehaving including an MS Word disassociation. I suspected a registry fault and re-booted but to no avail. I spent much of the day troubleshooting plus running anti-virus checks. I also found I was unable to uninstall a "suspect" program whichever method I used. Perhaps it is just as well because the next day the computer went back to being trouble-free. Why? Could there be a clue in the registry entries Windows places in WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP. Mine are shown below. Where is rb003, rbbad.cab looks ominous but what is a file 2 months old doing there?

rb000.cab 1860Kb WinZip File 23/10/04 12:25
rb001.cab 1859Kb WinZip File 24/10/04 11:19
rb002.cab 1858Kb WinZip File 25/10/04 11:20
rb004.cab 1860Kb WinZip File 21/10/04 18:31
rb005.cab 1860Kb WinZip File 22/10/04 16:30
rbbad.cab 1878Kb WinZip File 26/08/04 20:19

Is it perhaps a case that Windows cannot correct itself every time it boots but only once per day? As you can imagine I re-booted several times on 24 Oct. but there is only one entry for that day. Of course it may have been the computer fairy BG (brother to the tooth fairy), who put it right whilst I slept!

Regards,
Pat

 

I can't explain what you were seeing, but the backups look ok.
A backup is taken on the first successful boot on a particular day.
The Rbbad file can be deleted. It was created as a result of a /fix being run. Or, windows detecting a bad registry at boot time and reverting to the previous one.

 

Thankyou WhitPhil for the information

Kind regards,
Pat