System Restore gone?

rizla01

Hi Again,

More probs.

Can anyone tell me what causes my System Restore points to disappear?

Have I still got a Virus somewhere?

d900

i have no idea of ur past history with a virus so i dunno about that
i assume u did have one and attempted to get rid of it - some system cleaning software needs to delete system restore points so maybe thats it

rizla01

My system was runing very haphazardly, so I re-installed windows (XP) on the 'C' partition leaving all of the other partitions intact.

I have just run superantispyware to give it a thorough clean. it found about 40+ instances of malware (Low risk) and nothing else.

I also used Ccleaner to clean the registry of installation file remnants Etc. but that's all.

Sys restore use to delete restore points before the re-install too.

Exo

Hi, some guides here that may be of interest.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302796

Exo

Conor_3

System Restore is allocated a percentage of the free HDD space to use. Once it exceeds that, it deletes restore points starting with the oldest.

rizla01

I have a 250Gb HDD 60% free.

d900

if u reinstalled xp it would delete the restore points.
(unless im not understanding what ur on about)

rizla01

I formatted drive'C' and re-installed the op sys.

As soon as I re-installed and felt that I had a stable system I created a restore point.

I re-installed a few items of software and creaed a restore point at intervals, to allow me the opportunity(So I thought) of rolling back to a specific time in the re-install process.

Today things were not working as they should. screens locking Etc programs acting strange (Comodo not letting me load Adobe and STILL not when I closed it down) . ETc.

About to go into safe mode now to finish that install.