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Windows Forum / Windows Me / System Tools / September 2004System Restore Froze
I was unable to get past a blue screen when booting and started it in safe mode. I then attemptd to do a system resrore, and right now it apparently has frozen. There has been no progress for the past 90 minutes. What should I do? Can I just shut it down? Update: I shut it down and rebooted. Went back to restore and tried to restore to yesterday's date, not last week as I had been doing. No luck, came back as unsuccessful. Checked to see if I have the current patch and I do have the correct version. Tried again, still no luck. Any suggestions? -Colleen >-----Original Message----- >I was unable to get past a blue screen when booting and [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >should I do? Can I just shut it down? >. Colleen, Have only just seen your posts. You say you have the current patch but have you actually checked the version of the file smgr.dll in the Windows\system folder? If so is it v4.90.0.3003? Do this by locating the file in Windows Explorer, right clicking and then clicking Properties and then the version tab.  SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004] mcmaltby@hotmail.com > Update: > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> should I do? Can I just shut it down? >> . Yes I did and it is v4.90.0.3003. Still no luck with restore. Even though it said "unsuccessful" some things have been changed. It doesn't look like anything has been fixed, just missing some icons that had been changed yesterday. Any suggestions would help. -Colleen >-----Original Message----- >Colleen, [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >. Colleen, How puzzling. I hope you get your PC sorted. Once that is done you might want to try the following quick test: a) Create a shortcut on your desktop to a file. b) Create a manual checkpoint Could you create a checkpoint? c) Delete the shortcut d) Restore your PC to the checkpoint you created. Was the shortcut restored? Did you see any error messages? e) Reboot your PC Was the checkpoint retained? Since the only thing that you will be restoring is the deleted shortcut the restore should be quick and if it fails you will have lost nothing. Regards, SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004] mcmaltby@hotmail.com > Yes I did and it is v4.90.0.3003. Still no luck with > restore. Even though it said "unsuccessful" some things > have been changed. It doesn't look like anything has been > fixed, just missing some icons that had been changed > yesterday. Any suggestions would help. Mike, I did exactly what you said, even waited 5 minutes after setting the restore point (which I could do) before deleting the shortcut. I restored it to the checkpoint. I stated that it was successful, but shortcut was still there. Rebooted it again just in case. Still there. I tried this twice and same result. I did notice that there seems to be 2-4 system checkpoints listed on most days. Don't know if that has anything to do with it. Have done virus scans and used Ad-Aware. The only problem with Ad-Aware is that I always receive the same critical updates, which can't be deleted. They are BDE files some located in C:\_RESTORE\TEMP\ (I can't seem to actually locate these files, only the folder for BDE - I don't even know what this is or if I need it). Any other suggestions? -Colleen >-----Original Message----- >Colleen, [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > >. Colleen, Shortcut still there? That's good which means that system restore restored the shortcut. You did delete the shortcut on the desktop after you created the checkpoint didn't you? I ask since the entire purpose of the test was to use system restore to restore the deleted shortcut. If not then please re-read the steps in my quick test and try again. As for your problems with AdAware may I suggest you stick to one problem as AdAware has nothing to do with system restore. You might want to start a new thread, perhaps in the windowsme.general newsgroup and set out in detail the problems you are having with AdAware including the version you are using and the version of the update you are trying to install. Best of luck. SignatureMike Maltby MS-MVP [2001-2004] mcmaltby@hotmail.com > Mike, > I did exactly what you said, even waited 5 minutes after [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > locate these files, only the folder for BDE - I don't even > know what this is or if I need it). |
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