Found cause of my SR's lack of Regular System CheckPoints

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Ira - 18 Jul 2005 05:13 GMT

Hello:

I believe I fnally found what was interfering with the regular creation of
system checkpoints in my system Restore utility.

Seems that in the most recent build of MSN Messneger 7.0.0813, if the
Messenger runs

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Mike M - 18 Jul 2005 23:25 GMT

AFAIK you are to date the only person reporting this however ANY
application running continuously in the background such as MSN Messenger
can cause the lack of system restore checkpoints.

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> Hello:
>
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> Seems that in the most recent build of MSN Messneger 7.0.0813, if the
> Messenger runs

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Doc - 23 Jul 2005 02:17 GMT

> AFAIK you are to date the only person reporting this however ANY
> application running continuously in the background such as MSN
> Messenger can cause the lack of system restore checkpoints.

Interestingly, I have recently installed MSN Messenger 6.2. After
reading these posts I had a look at my system restore. To my amazement
my last restore point is Jun 16th, the very same day I installed MSN
Messenger. It had been working flawlessly prior to that, any time I had
had the need to use system restore there had always been a dozen or so
current restore points to choose from.

I managed to create a manual restore point OK, so will go and do some
investigating now.

BTW, I do NOT have MSN messenger running 'automatically', just start it
up as required.

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Ira - 23 Jul 2005 06:11 GMT

<<<<
BTW, I do NOT have MSN messenger running 'automatically', just start it
up as required.
>>>>

I discovered this problem with MSN Messenger 7.0.0813. But it could well be
the same with the version you are using.

Keep in mind that when you use MSN Messenger as you do and then close it
and sign/or sign out, the program likely keeps running in the background
even after you go offline --as you might well see by that icon in the system
tray with some sort of x on it. It continues as an active process even whn
you're signed ou and logged off.. I have no idea why its set up that
way.... In my own expereince, this continues to prevent regular system
checkpoints until you right click on that icon and click on : "Exit". After
I did this a couple of times, it became second nature. Result: Two system
checkpoints daily for over a week now....But.I forgot to hit "Exit " once,
and no new chechpoints were generated for a day.

Good luck with this:

-Ira

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| > AFAIK you are to date the only person reporting this however ANY
| > application running continuously in the background such as MSN
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| BTW, I do NOT have MSN messenger running 'automatically', just start it
| up as required.

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Doc - 23 Jul 2005 11:55 GMT

> I discovered this problem with MSN Messenger 7.0.0813. But it could
> well be the same with the version you are using.
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> icon in the system tray with some sort of x on it. It continues as an
> active process even whn you're signed ou and logged off..

I right click that system tray icon and close down Messenger completely.
I have always done it that way, I don't want anything 'running' when not
required. Have confirmed all processes terminated with SysInternals
Process Explorer.

>I have no
> idea why its set up that way.... In my own expereince, this continues
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>
> -Ira

Today I have just disabled and then re-enabled system restore and an auto
restore point was created on reboot. Hopefully this will be all I need to
corect the situation. I will NOT even use Messenger until the next
restore point is created tomorrow, then I will see what happens after
that.

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