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Before I try and deal with your system restore problem, if all you want to
do is restore a copy of the registry you can use SCANREG. With no other
applications running as the system will reboot on completion, click Start
| Run and enter
SCANREG /RESTORE
and click OK. You will now be offered the option to restore one of five
backed up copies of the registry.
System Restore problem:
Check that you don't have a wininit.ini file in your Windows folder. If
you do, rename this to wininit.old and retry System Restore. If this works
then you possibly have a program that creates a wininit.ini file each time
you boot your system. One known example is tgcmd.exe, another is a
program called "ACCESS DENIED". If you have tgcmd.exe I understand that
disabling it in MSConfig | Startup will have no adverse effect on your
system but enable you to use System Restore. Likewise ACCESS DENIED
needs to be "switched off" whilst using SR to either create or restore to
a previous checkpoint. McAfee's Spam Killer also seems to create a new
wininit.ini file each time the system is booted. See also MS KB 274092 -
"Error Message: System Restore Cannot Run Until You Restart the Computer"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=274092).
If this isn't the reason for your problem then try running
SCANREG /FIX
from a command prompt such as Start | Run. Note that the system will
re-boot so don't have any applications open when doing this. I suggest
this because the same message is also displayed when the registry has been
corrupted in some way. scanreg /fix attempts to repair that damage.
Hopefully one or the other will solve your problem and allow you to create
a manual check point. If so then please continue with the rest of the
test.
If however you find that you keep getting a wininit.ini file created each
time you boot your system another known cause is due to having unwanted
malware but hopefully we won't have to go down that path.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mike.maltby@gmail.com
L M <LM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I try to do a system restore by going to Start, Programs,
> Accessories, System Tools, System Restore to bring up the System
> Restore Wizard. To restore the Registry, select Restore my computer
> to an earlier time.
>
> When I try to bring up the Wizard I get this message: System restore
> cannot run until you restart the computer. Please restart the
> computer and then run system restore again. I then restart the
> computer and try running system restore again but I get the same
> message saying I have to restart my computer. I would appreciate some
> help on this problem. Thanks
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