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Question

System restore

Nov 20, 2013 9:53AM PST

I am running Win XP Pro and I find that my "system restore" will not restore. It tells me that no changes were made to my computer. I am using Firefox. Any suggestions? Bill

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Can be true for many many reasons.
Nov 20, 2013 10:02AM PST

The most common reason I see it fail is the antivirus suite has blocked it.

The next is some virus or registry cleaner damage. Registry cleaners and fixers break things rather than what we all hoped for.

Tell more.
Bob

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System restore
Nov 20, 2013 11:21AM PST

Bob, I'm using AVG, free version and CC Cleaner.

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It seems you found it. Search example for you.
Nov 20, 2013 11:21PM PST
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System restore
Nov 21, 2013 1:26AM PST

Bob, I have used AVG free version for years. Thanks so much

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System restore
Dec 13, 2013 3:03AM PST

Thank you for the response, I uninstalled AVG and my system works just fine now. Thanks, Bill

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hello
Dec 12, 2013 3:28PM PST

well, I think the reason is that you didn't create a restore point for the computer. Because the windows self-provided system restore function always asks user to create a restore point before you want to do the restore job if you didn't turn the "automatical creating restore point" function on. So I guess that would be the reason.
And if you have important files to get back. You may need to seek helps from other data recover & backup software on the market. There are plenty of them out there.
You can also get some hints from here how to restore windows 2003 server. Don't mind it is for windows 2003 server, it is a compatible solution for windowsXP as well.

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(NT) -1 for spamming this.
Dec 13, 2013 1:56AM PST
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Wrong fosterpeople . . .
Dec 15, 2013 3:01AM PST

In XP Pro System Restore is turned on by default and will remain on until available space on the drive reaches 200 Mb or less.

Three conditions will prompt an automatic restore point:

1. Every 24 machine running hours. IE if a PC is running 24/7 a restore point will be created every 24 hours. If a PC is running 4 hours a day the the restore point will be created every 6 days. More or less.

2. On every MS update.

3. When most programs or utilities are installed.

Manual restore points can be created at any time.

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Been down this road many times
Dec 31, 2013 8:03AM PST

I have taught myself to always check for Restore Points first ,before clicking restore ....
Because , if there's no saved restore points , your pc won't be able to divert to an earlier time , thus
the message " No Changes Were Made " meaning the pc is in the same state as it was before clicking
restore...Ihad a rough go of understanding what it was being conveyed.....
The solution to the problem was in the regular cleaning of files , disk cleaning and so on...My restore
points were thrown out ....Somewhere in XP bellows theres a check box or somthin
to skip over the Saved Restore Points...im in Win 7 now , an playing on memory
Also , if your using another form of PC cleaning other than the XP system , looksee for files
pretaining to restore