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From: Daave on 12 Apr 2010 12:07
Lem wrote:
> Frank Martin wrote:
>> I have WindowsXP SP3,
>>
>>
>> For some reason I get only one restore point with System
>> Restore.
>>
>> I have the following drive settings:
>>
>> C: 6%
>> D: 4%
>> E 4%
>>
>> In the past I could automatically get several day's restore
>> points. Why do I get only one now?
>>
>> Please help, Frank
>>
>>
>
> 1. The percentages are not as important as the actual disk space
> allocated to System Restore. Try to have about 1 GB.
> 2. You only need System Restore on the system partition, which
> presumably is C:. Turn it off on D: and E:
> 3. Under some circumstances (which I can't recall at the moment),
> System Restore points become very large, which will limit the number
> of restore points that fit into the space allocated.
> 4. For everything you wanted to know about System Restore, and more,
> see http://bertk.mvps.org/

+1


From: Lem on 12 Apr 2010 12:56
Lem wrote:
> Frank Martin wrote:
>> I have WindowsXP SP3,
>>
>>
>> For some reason I get only one restore point with System Restore.
>>
>> I have the following drive settings:
>>
>> C: 6%
>> D: 4%
>> E 4%
>>
>> In the past I could automatically get several day's restore points.
>> Why do I get only one now?
>>
>> Please help, Frank
>>
>
> 1. The percentages are not as important as the actual disk space
> allocated to System Restore. Try to have about 1 GB.
> 2. You only need System Restore on the system partition, which
> presumably is C:. Turn it off on D: and E:
> 3. Under some circumstances (which I can't recall at the moment), System
> Restore points become very large, which will limit the number of restore
> points that fit into the space allocated.
> 4. For everything you wanted to know about System Restore, and more, see
> http://bertk.mvps.org/
>

Also see recent post by mkenewbie "No prior system restore points" --
the problem there was caused by a recent update to ZoneAlarm:

> Thanks for ALL the suggestions here from those who responded. It DID turn out
> to be an issue with Zone Alarms' latest update. Seems many (or everyone) that
> updated to it has the same issue of only the current System Restore Point
> being shown. All previous ones are wiped out.
>
> I chatted live with their tech group and they are aware of it and working on
> it. So presumably a new update will be forthcoming. In the meantime one can
> go back to a previous version or just risk having one restore point available.



--
Lem

Apollo 11 - 40 years ago:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
From: Frank Martin on 13 Apr 2010 18:35
Thank you. I have CCleaner and I switched this off for two
days as a test.

Sure enough, the extra restore points are now being added.


So is was CCleaner V2.25. How do I adjust CCleaner to
prevent it trashing past restore points?

Please help, Frank

(I already have "Malwarebytes" which I run regularly.)





"Jose" <jose_ease(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:bf866473-f9d5-4be9-9f4c-4bef54ed19c6(a)x12g2000yqx.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 11, 9:32 pm, "Frank Martin" <f...(a)general.com.au>
wrote:
> I have WindowsXP SP3,
>
> For some reason I get only one restore point with System
> Restore.
>
> I have the following drive settings:
>
> C: 6%
> D: 4%
> E 4%
>
> In the past I could automatically get several day's
> restore
> points. Why do I get only one now?
>
> Please help, Frank

Are you able to ascertain that the one RP you have is the
most recent?

If you have chosen to use the XP Disk Cleanup or some third
party
application like CCleaner with certain options, all but the
last RP
will be deleted if you choose to do so. Any of that sound
familiar?

You can test your SR by making a manual RP, reboot, check to
be sure a
new RP was created in the calendar and then wait at least 24
hours and
see if XP will make a RP on it's own when the time to create
a new RP
rolls around. XP would like to create a new RP every 24
hours, but
may not do so automatically for a number of reasons - which,
I can
explain why not later if needed. Some system configuration
changes or
software installations will also force a new RP before the
24 hours
expires. So, you can have days and days go by with no RPs
and some
days with several, but nothing should defy explanation when
it comes
to RPs.

If you are even remotely suspicious about your SR, then I
would do
this:

Perform some scans for malicious software, then fix any
remaining
issues:

Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free
malware
detection programs:

Malwarebytes (MBAM): http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/

They can be uninstalled later if desired.


From: Jose on 14 Apr 2010 07:34
On Apr 13, 6:35 pm, "Frank Martin" <f...(a)general.com.au> wrote:
> Thank you.  I have CCleaner and I switched this off for two
> days as a test.
>
> Sure enough, the extra restore points are now being added.
>
> So is was CCleaner V2.25.   How do I adjust CCleaner to
> prevent it trashing past restore points?
>
> Please help, Frank
>

Well, your CCleaner version is old - 2.30 is out now.

Looking at their forums, some users reported this phenomenon and the
CCleaner people said "no way!" (unless you manually did it).

One user said he narrowed it down and figured out that if he used
CCleaner to empty the Recycle Bin, it took the RPs with it.
Unconfirmed, but that guy is convinced.

I just used CCleaner 2.30 and emptied my RB and my RPs were still
there.

I put some things in my RB and set up CCleaner to run on startup,
rebooted and it did run/cleanup and my RPs will still there.

In the past few days, some version of ZoneAlarm seems to be behind all
but the last RP being deleted too, so do you also have ZA installed?

It could be CCleaner, but if I were you I would:

Get on the current version of CCleaner
Configure CCleaner to run on startup if that is your desire
Make some RPs by hand so you don't have to wait days to test.
Reboot
See if the RPs were deleted

I imagine the CCleaner people would like to hear about your issue in
their forums if you can reproduce it consistently on their latest
version.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/help
From: Jose on 14 Apr 2010 07:44
On Apr 14, 7:34 am, Jose <jose_e...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 13, 6:35 pm, "Frank Martin" <f...(a)general.com.au> wrote:
>
> > Thank you.  I have CCleaner and I switched this off for two
> > days as a test.
>
> > Sure enough, the extra restore points are now being added.
>
> > So is was CCleaner V2.25.   How do I adjust CCleaner to
> > prevent it trashing past restore points?
>
> > Please help, Frank
>
> Well, your CCleaner version is old - 2.30 is out now.
>
> Looking at their forums, some users reported this phenomenon and the
> CCleaner people said "no way!" (unless you manually did it).
>
> One user said he narrowed it down and figured out that if he used
> CCleaner to empty the Recycle Bin, it took the RPs with it.
> Unconfirmed,  but that guy is convinced.
>
> I just used CCleaner 2.30 and emptied my RB and my RPs were still
> there.
>
> I put some things in my RB and set up CCleaner to run on startup,
> rebooted and it did run/cleanup and my RPs will still there.
>
> In the past few days, some version of ZoneAlarm seems to be behind all
> but the last RP being deleted too, so do you also have ZA installed?
>
> It could be CCleaner, but if I were you I would:
>
> Get on the current version of CCleaner
> Configure CCleaner to run on startup if that is your desire
> Make some RPs by hand so you don't have to wait days to test.
> Reboot
> See if the RPs were deleted
>
> I imagine the CCleaner people would like to hear about your issue in
> their forums if you can reproduce it consistently on their latest
> version.
>
> http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/help

Oh yeah - we would like to hear what you discover too.
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