Re: Cannot System restore

From: Thorsten Matzner (tmatzner_at_gmx.net)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:22:45 +0200

"Ben Stevenson" <casiopie963@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Went to your indicated page kb 302796. It says to go to Start/Control Panel
>and then to Performance and Maintenance, but I don't have that. Would that
>be any problematic in future? But managed to go to the next step
>Administrative Tools in the Control panel and proceeded.

"Performance and Maintenance" is not available in the Classic view of
the Windows Explorer.

>Towards the end it says "Make sure that System Restore is enabled on the
>drives where you want System Restore enabled." How do I do that?

In the settings you can find a list of drives and their status
regarding SR. Make sure that "Monitoring" is shown for all drives.

>And then it says "Try to run System restore in safe Mode". How do I get to
>Safe Mode? I couldn't as in WinME by pressing Cntrl key on restart.

See "A Description of the Safe Boot Mode Options in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315222) 

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