Harriet
When you go to programs/accessories/system tools/system restore, you are
given three options - restore to an earlier time, create a restore
point, or undue the last restore. To create a restore point you chose
create a restore point, give it a name, and then create the point.
Apparently this is what you did on 11/16.
To restore to the 11/16 restore point, select the option to restore to
an earlier date. The next screen has a calendar with the highlighted
dates having restore point(s). Select 11/16 and all restore point(s) on
that date will be listed. Select the restore point you created and then
select restore. If there is no restore point shown for 11/16 see if
there are any restore points before the "mess". XP creates its own
restore points and there may be one on 11/17 before you ran into the
problem.
If there are no restore points, post again to see if anyone has any
ideas on why your restore point creation is not indicated. One thought
is that somehow system restore was turned off after you created the
restore point in which case all restore points would have been deleted.
I hope this helps.
Tom Mayer
When you go to restore
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> Hi There, Tom...
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> I created a restore point AFTER I formatted, got my antivirus thing,
> firewall, and one program I wanted on here, and my stuff back on my desktop in the
> order I wanted, but I was told to create a restore point after I got all of
> this done. So I created a restore point on 11-16-06, but I got my computer
> messed up by saving a pic. off the net, and I wanted to go back to that restore
> point. Im sure I dont understand what you are talking about. The picture I
> saved was on the 17th.. so I figured if I could go back to the 16th where I
> made that restore point, then I would get rid of what destruction that pic.
> did to my computer.
> But when I tried to find what I had named it, it said there was no restore
> point there. So perhaps I'm not understanding what you are talking about. My
> computer is still messed up, and I didn't want to have to format again.
> Harriet
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> I think there is a misunderstanding. When you "create" a restore point,
> it is as of the time of the creation. When you "restore" you can select
> what previously created point to restore from. XP automatically creates
> restore points and, due to the size (which you can adjust) of the
> restore cache, the older restore points will be removed/overwritten to
> make room for the newest restore points.
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> Tom Mayer
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