Re: restore

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I believe back to when he bought it. I don't know that he knew you can
choose a restore point. He also said that when he tried to reinstall
Microsoft office, it wouldn't accept his key code.

Terry

"Bert Kinney" <bert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

How far back in time did he restore the system?

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"Terry Kangas" wrote
Hi,
I hope someone can help me, my brother-in-law is running XP and had
his
computer crash during a lightening storm. He couldn't get it to
operate
properly , so he used System Restore. But he said that after running
it, he
had to reinstall most of his programs, including Microsoft programs,
but XP
won't let them be reinstalled. Plus when he logs on, the screen looks
different. He also thinks the computer seems slower than before. I'm
not too
familiar with XP yet, but I think the power surge did some damage
beyond
what Restore can fix?

thanks, Terry




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