Re: System Restore Problems

In news:39CABD29-AF1C-49BA-B57F-FB3F1767934C@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
BuddyHollyLives <BuddyHollyLives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> Thanks for the DVD tip. I'm still scratching my head on that one
> because I cannot recall anything I have done since installing that
> bugger. It is as if the drive is changing itself from time to time.
> Oh well, maybe NEC can answer it. I actually was in Safe Mode to do
> virus and spyware scans. I looked at the Appearance Tab of the
> Display Properties and only Windows Classic was in the pulldown. Is
> there another way to change it?

Actually you might not be able to change it that easily from within safe
mode now that I think about it. You might have had to force users to use a
certain theme which can be done (on XP Pro) via the GPEDIT.MSC section if I
recall though I don't remember where in there it is specifically. If it was
causing you to crash in regular mode an idea might have been to check and
stop some of the running services or to look in the error log (eventvwr.msc)
to see if there's any errors from the attempts to start it and what they
are. A quick check shows that it's not dependent on any other services so as
long as the service was up and running (set to automatic) then it *should*
have started, if failed it should have tried again... Do you have a lot of
processes running? Did you at that time?

Galen
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Signature changed for a moment of silence.
Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.


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