...installing the patch for Windows ME System Restore that Microsoft supplied at the link below?:
Checkpoints That You Create After September 8, 2001 Do Not Restore Your Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290700
Hope this helps.
Grif
running w/me on HP pavillion t-936. Never used sys. restore and recently found it was enabled but hadn't set a restore point since 02. Needless to say I didn't want to use that one. when manually trying get unable to set restore message each time. Any ideas?
everything else is operating ok.

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