Walter E. wrote:
> System Restore in Win XP SP2 has become completely unresponsive. It
> will not even open up the restore panel with the calendar that shows any
> restore points.
>
> Would a "Repair Installation" fix this or should I re-install windows?
> -
> Walter
> www.rationality.net
In Administrative Tools : Services, I see a service listed for
"System Restore Service". It is set to a Startup Type of Automatic,
and on my machine, is currently running. What does yours look like ?
For other hints, have a look at C
WINDOWS\inf\sr.inf , which can be
opened with a text editor. It'll show you what things are installed
as part of System Restore. For example "rstrui.exe" is the thing
that brings up the Calendar window. You can find rstrui.exe here.
C
WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\rstrui.exe
Hmmm. Great. Mine is busted too! Running rstrui.exe is generating
an error report to Microsoft, and a blank window which closes. Maybe
the "Patch Tuesday" fix did this ? I only did that one yesterday.
I think I'm going to try a reboot now, and see if it is still busted.
There wasn't a reboot after Patch Tuesday update, so maybe that
is the problem. I'm running SP3 too.
Paul