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« on: January 31, 2007, 19:33:39 »
Anyone any ideas as to why my system restore refuses to work?

Has spybot or ccleaner wiped something important off my laptop?

I'm running xp sp2.
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« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2007, 19:39:08 »
would you mind letting on why you would need to use this? cos my reply would depend on the severity of the problem.

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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2007, 19:45:35 »
After downloading property details from fish4.com and various estate agent websites.... When i disconnect from the internet, my laptop now tries to connect on its own.... and it carries on trying & trying.
Also its started to show a black screen with a flashing line in top left corner at boot up..... this all started today.

I was hoping a system restore would remove any possible malicious software i may have downloaded?
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« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2007, 19:57:03 »
run lavasoft adaware in safe mode, and also a virus scan and it should come good :)
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« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2007, 19:58:14 »
Thanks smo, i'll give it a try.
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« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2007, 20:00:10 »
system restore is crap - dont use it! try adaware as simon mentioned.. its probably just something daft though
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« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2007, 20:12:43 »
I had some grief with my desktop refusing to talk to my router. Have used system restore before, and tried it again, completely inoperative. wont system restore back to any saved point.

anyone got any ideas?
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« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2007, 20:28:51 »
Quote from: "rollazuki"
I had some grief with my desktop refusing to talk to my router. Have used system restore before, and tried it again, completely inoperative. wont system restore back to any saved point.

anyone got any ideas?


Is the system still working but just not talking to the router?

The first port of call is a firewall, if you have one then disable it and see if there is any network activity then, if it works then sort your firewall out, if it doesnt then check the router and internet settings.
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« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2007, 21:06:09 »
ran adaware....... it sorted the black screen with flashing bar..... but system restore just wont work at all.
Computer is no longer trying to connect to the internet by itself.... so ill leave it as is....
Thanks SMO, much appreciated.
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« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2007, 21:12:44 »
No worries, glad it helped.

In all honesty system restore is only handy when it all goes really really bad, and in those cases it never works!
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« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2007, 22:26:27 »
Quote from: "smo"
In all honesty system restore is only handy when it all goes really really bad, and in those cases it never works!

The best result that I have ever had from a system restore (on a friend's PC which was crashing part way through a normal boot sequence) was a totally defunct system that needed an XP install disk run in "repair" mode. The other results that I have had involved using the manufacturer's "red disk" which restored the hard disk to factory state from a hidden partition disk image.

PS. Make sure that your anti-virus software is up to date and is set to check for new updates at least once a day.
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« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2007, 18:51:00 »
Ha HAH...... apparently Internet Explorer is the culprit :evil:

http://forums.computing.co.uk/message.jspa?messageID=708251

I'll give it a go and see what happens.
On another forum, there's mention of an update (windows update) that clashes with restore... (something about a microsoft backdoor trojan was mentioned).

 :cry:  :cry: EDIT...its not internet explorer :cry:
lets try the other option.
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« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2007, 20:10:48 »
so it tries to load up your internet connection when you boot up?

have a look in your startup folder and list things that you dont recognise on here.
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« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2007, 10:08:23 »
No, its stopped trying to access the internet (after running adaware in safe mode). But system restore wont restore to any checkpoints and is now not making any checkpoints.... :?
I'm going to try uninstalling the last windows updates, to see if that fixes it...
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« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2007, 10:37:07 »
Quote from: "TRUG2"
No, its stopped trying to access the internet (after running adaware in safe mode). But system restore wont restore to any checkpoints and is now not making any checkpoints.... :?
I'm going to try uninstalling the last windows updates, to see if that fixes it...


I see your running spybot. Are you running AVG or similar?
If you are uninstall spybot and or AVG  in safe mode. Re-boot then install the two progs again
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« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2007, 10:56:35 »
SORTED  :D  =D>  \:D/ ...... I uninstalled the updates from "windows update" and system restore now works again......

Thanks guys.

No Cassilis, i'm running Kaspersky 6.0  :D  (Which seems to be pretty damn good at its job). Used to run AVG/Antivir/Avast etc, but wasnt happy with there level of protection.... for instance " ran AVG for a few months... then installed Antivir, and antivir picked up problems that AVG missed, went back to AVG later and it picked up problems Antivir missed  :shock: ".
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« Reply #16 on: February 03, 2007, 16:21:12 »
Kaspersky is good, its worth the money, but AVG isnt all that bad.

Also listen to the advice people have given earlier about the system restore point, its alot of problems if you use it, it never works as it was intended to do.
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