Re: Can system restore be turned "on" in safe mode?

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From: D. (d_at_no_usenet_email..org)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 05:25:54 -0700

Stever Streeter <Stever Streeter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I was attempting to remove a virus [spybot.32] and while doing
> so turned off system resore, as directed. A malfunction occured
> and the system froze completely. I can restart in safe mode,
> but restore cannot be turned on . When I try normal mode the
> startup freezes during the "loading user settings" mode.
> Any suggestions?

I've never said this, as I've always said try other things & wait for
a good reply, but with you're turning off system restore & deleting
all of your restore points, & you can't go back to a good config, it's
time to consider re-installing Windows. Of course you can start in
safe mode so maybe there is something you can do.

I just re-installed Windows because of a very intermittent shutting
down problem that I couldn't trace. Even when I set Windows to give me
the blue screen of death & it reported what failed, it was always
something different failing.

So with the re-install I got rid of all of the crap I had always said
yes to & installed. Like a bunch of non-critical updates at the
Windows update site to name some.. More & more stuff adding itself
into Windows. This time I am being more selective in what I load.
So far so good after 3 days. Fingers crossed...

I would suggest to anyone, especially now that prices have come down,
to purchase an external USB hard drive to save all of your installed
stuff on. I bought one a few months ago & good thing I always save to
my HD everything before i install it. & I had a lot of movies & some
music files that took up around 50 gigs. It sure made a re-install
easy to decide to do.

The external HD works great. It sits out of the way on my desk. I
have it's power supply plugged into an underneath-the-monitor power
strip with separate on/off buttons for each plugged in thing. It is
always plugged into a USB port. So when I want to use it, I just
switch it on with XP running, & in a couple of seconds XP recognises
the USB device & adds a new drive letter into start\my computer, and
everything is hunky-dory. When i don't want to use it anymore I just
toggle the power strip button off and XP removes the assigned drive
letter. I didn't even have to load up a driver from the CD. Even
though it is a Ximta brand hard drive it uses XP's Samsung driver for
it.

  D.

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