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I am unable to establish a restore point or restore to an earlier check
point in WIN ME. Also I am unable to access Help and Support.
Have a five year old Dell 4100 series PC with PIII 800mghz processor, 30G
HD, 128mg RAM, and running WIN ME.
I use Firefox and Thunderbird but use Outlook Express for NG's. Also run
Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware regularly.
Recently installed programs - Zone Alarm (Free version), AVG Antivirus (Free
version), Adaptec USB 2.0 board.
Recently uninstalled program Symantec NIS 2002 w/ NAV.
Noticed that when accessing Help that the hourglass would hang up everytime,
so I closed and got the message--
"The application is busy Do you want to abort anyway Y/N?" Answered yes
and application closed. So I thought about restoring to
an earlier check point to see if H&S would come back. During the restore
operation a black screen appeared with some verbiage
(sorry I didn't write it down) to the effect that Norton files were out of
date for NAV. Proceeded ahead and the H&S worked. Then
for some unfathmoble reason I undid the previous restore to the latest one
and the Restore function nor the H&S hasn't worked since.
I put in a startup diskette and typed scanreg /restore to see available
points and all five indicated "Started" , thinking none of these would
be of any use I then used the Method 3 of the MS Article ID 303354 and
renamed the _RESTORE directory oldrest. This also did no
good and the Restore function now says "Unable to establish a restore
point - please restart your computer etc." Otherwise everything
seems to work OK.
Any help for a better approach to this problem will be appreciated. I am
beginning to empathize with Brer Rabbit.
I am unable to establish a restore point or restore to an earlier check
point in WIN ME. Also I am unable to access Help and Support.
Have a five year old Dell 4100 series PC with PIII 800mghz processor, 30G
HD, 128mg RAM, and running WIN ME.
I use Firefox and Thunderbird but use Outlook Express for NG's. Also run
Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware regularly.
Recently installed programs - Zone Alarm (Free version), AVG Antivirus (Free
version), Adaptec USB 2.0 board.
Recently uninstalled program Symantec NIS 2002 w/ NAV.
Noticed that when accessing Help that the hourglass would hang up everytime,
so I closed and got the message--
"The application is busy Do you want to abort anyway Y/N?" Answered yes
and application closed. So I thought about restoring to
an earlier check point to see if H&S would come back. During the restore
operation a black screen appeared with some verbiage
(sorry I didn't write it down) to the effect that Norton files were out of
date for NAV. Proceeded ahead and the H&S worked. Then
for some unfathmoble reason I undid the previous restore to the latest one
and the Restore function nor the H&S hasn't worked since.
I put in a startup diskette and typed scanreg /restore to see available
points and all five indicated "Started" , thinking none of these would
be of any use I then used the Method 3 of the MS Article ID 303354 and
renamed the _RESTORE directory oldrest. This also did no
good and the Restore function now says "Unable to establish a restore
point - please restart your computer etc." Otherwise everything
seems to work OK.
Any help for a better approach to this problem will be appreciated. I am
beginning to empathize with Brer Rabbit.