if i disable system restore what does that do to my computer?
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Great Question and thank you for participating. It's great that we have the ability to enable and disable the system restore as there are many trojans, viruses and other malicious programs that have the ability hide in particular places so that even if you restore your computer back to a certain date when everything was working well or even completely remove your Windows Program so that they can rewrite themselves into the new changes just as soon as you boot up for the first time. By disabling the system restore, those malicious programs cant follow you if you completely format the hard drive and put in a new, fresh copy of Windows XP or whatever Platform you're using. By enabling the system restore, you'll be able to restore the computer back to a date when everything was working fine. This will end any new or arising issues due to conflicts in any hardware or software that you may have added recently and is now causing problems. You will of course lose any and all programs and changes you've made since the date you choose to restore back to so be sure to think it all out before hitting buttons. If I can help further, let me know. Always happy to help. Larry Radio Shack 01-9590
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use the system restore function.
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This link will tell you how to reinstall system restore.  You will also see a link for a free system repair.\n\nhttp://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairsr.htm
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IF you did accidentaly delete some system critical files don't worry. If your using windows XP your can do a repair just make sure you have your cd with you. Boot with and choose the repair option, (don't press r, that's recovery console"). everything will be restored as normal but you will have to windows updates again. Also makes sure you use a service pack 2 cd. All mail and links will still be intact
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You should keep restoring, going back one restore date at a time, until your puter is working good.  You might need to reinstall some software but that is not much of a problem.  You will not lose your personal files.  \nE
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It's called System Restore.\n\nStart > All Programs > Accessories > System > System Restore.
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If, when you try to run system restore, and you have no dates in the calander that are in bold; you have system restore turned off. This can happen with some drive cleaners. To check if it is on or off:\n\nOpen System Properties. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click System. In the System Properties dialog box, click the System Restore tab\nEnsure that the Turn off System Restore check box is cleared. \n\nIf it is on, post a comment.
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i'd try 2 things...one thing is go to your control panel and click on "classic view" so you can see wat you're doing, and click performance and maintenance. Then go to the upper left corner and click on system restore and try to go back to a time when u didnt have it..it doesnt always work but it's worth a try. if that doesnt work you're going to have to reformat your computer
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Yes, you can go back into it and re-check things if you want, it won't delete anything.\n\nAnd it will help at startup and should also help while the computer is running because all those things you uncheck usually run at startup and continue to run while using the computer.\n\nWhen you restart the computer the first time a message will pop up saying you've changed the startup options, just click on the box to not show it anymore and you're set.
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System restore only work if you created a restore point ,and if your computer has any kind of virus the system restore would not work because the virus is already spread,the only way to fix this is to kix your window system with the windows cd,you have to fix it in the dos mode,,just insert the cd inside you cd drive and check your boot order ,the installation will go on until you have a choose eother format and install a new windows or repair ,now you cohsse the perair mode and wait till it finishs.....Good Luck  :)
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you have a lot of "stuff" running in the background or something like drivers or programs are conflicting and XP has to deal with them before shutting down. Also if you have restore points activated it could be saving a restore point
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If you haven't turn off the System Restore utility, you can restore it by Start Menu | Program Files | System Tools | System Restore\n\nThen you choose which date (before you mess around with the group policy setting)
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A PC restore will take your system back to the factory settings. During the PC restore all the information on your hard-drive will be erased, so it is essential that you get any of your important information backed up onto external media such as CD, memory key, or a zip drive.\n\nOnce you have all you data backed up you can continue with the PC \nrestore.\nTo run a PC restore please follow the below steps.\n\n1. Turn your system off. \n2. Remove all the cables from the desktop apart from the power lead, keyboard, mouse and monitor.\n3. Turn the system back on and as soon as you turn it on hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and as you are holding it down start tapping the F11 key along the top of the keyboard once every two seconds.\n4. This will lead you to a screen with two options, one for restore and one or reboot. You click on restore,\n5. You will notice a progress bar at the bottom of the screen counting up from 0% to 100% this is the process wiping all the data on the drive. When this process has finished it will then take you through the windows set up procedure.\n6. During the windows set up you follow the on screen instructions. It will ask you for some basic information such as setting the time and the date, picking a country and a language, giving you computer a name and a company name (you can give it any name you want). It will also ask \nyou if you want to set up an Internet connection (It is recommended that you select no at this point and do it later).\n7. When the procedure is finished it will leave you back at your Windows desktop and hopefully every thing will work as normal. You can then go ahead and install any of you own software or hardware.
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The first thing I would do is a virus scan to get ride off the virus if you have one.\n\nWhatever you do, do not manually delete the restore files as it won't change anything to the system.\nWindows has to do the restoring for anything to take effect.\n\nYou could also try to re-boot in safe mode and see if it will then restore your files.\n\nIt is also possible that it won't restore because you deleted a program manually and Windows cannot find the files to restore.
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I suggest you try in Safe Mode per :\n\nTo run System Restore in safe mode\nAccess System Restore through Help and Support. \nFollow the instructions on your screen. \n Notes\n\nTo access the System Restore Wizard, click Start, and then click Help and Support. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Using System Restore to undo changes, and then click Run the System Restore Wizard. \nWhile the computer is in safe mode, System Restore does not create any restore points. Therefore, you cannot undo a restoration that you performed when the computer was in safe mode. \nYou can use System Restore to restore your computer to any restore point while in safe mode. If you cannot start the computer in standard mode, you can use System Restore to restore to a time when you could start the computer without errors. \nTo restore to a time when your computer started without errors, select a restore point as close to the time you remember it last started without errors. \nIf System Restore is suspended because of insufficient disk space, you cannot enable it by making more disk space available while in safe mode. You must restart the computer in standard mode and make more disk space available.
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Start>programs>accessories>system tools>system restore
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I have XP in my system. Whenever I see spywares in my system, I immediately rollback to previous system restore point. (It is in Accesories->SystemTools->SystemRestore.)