BrY Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Why is my system restore points not even available even just after 1 restart?! I think I have the settings set appropriately turning on for just drive C: and plenty reserved room for it to save at least a couple of restore points. Anyone have/had this problem? I think during the early betas it was working properly, but for me I've been putting it off. But system restore is crucial I need it to be functioning. Has anyone else had/solved or still have this problem and what are some possible fixes? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimsland Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 System Restore is one of the first areas that can be corrupted by Malware (Virus; Trojan etc) Have you completed a full updated Antivirus scan? Also you may want to run these tools as well: CCleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com/download/downloading Malwarebytes: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam-download.php Both of the above state they work on XP and Vista, I expect they also work on the Windows 7 Beta or RC that you are using. If you have mission critical data on your system, then possibly you should not be using Windows 7, as this is just a testing OS, Windows 7 will be released officially on 22nd October 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAckEur Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 if you have a multiboot environment like XP-VISTA-LINUX-WIN7, everytime you boot in your XP/VISTA/LINUX partition all the restore points in WIN7 get deleted. It's explained in detail on the Microsoft site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrY Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 Yes I believe this as to the reason why my system restore isn't working then. I haven't heard about that as a problem. Is there a fix to this? I have Win 7-64 WinXp Ubuntu Mac OSX all installed to the same system multiboot. Would it be fixed if I turn on system restore through Win 7 for all my partitions? I can't give up multiboot just like I can't give up system restore either. Please advise. Thanks. if you have a multiboot environment like XP-VISTA-LINUX-WIN7, everytime you boot in your XP/VISTA/LINUX partition all the restore points in WIN7 get deleted. It's explained in detail on the Microsoft site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAckEur Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 workaround solution is here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrY Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 Thanks for that, turning BitLocker on. Although I notice when I turn on TPM hardware through my BIOS, it takes a few seconds longer to get through the boot screen. :( workaround solution is here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DataCabbitKSW Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Yes, it will take another second or so to start up with TPM enabled, since that is loading all of the security bits that make the encryption work faster and make it harder to just crack from memory peeks by intruding malware and miscreants. However, I personally think it is worth it to have it turned on if you are actually using it (have BitLocker turned on or other real-time encryption software). Thanks to Hackeur for pointing that KB article on how to get around the multi-windows boot issues where other windows versions were blowing away System Restore points. For BrY, you can also try posting any problems, questions or suggestions to the official Windows 7 RC Support Forum located here http://<< spam >>/9fhdl5 . It is supported by product specialists as well as engineers and support teams. They are usually pretty quick to respond. If anything it gets your voice heard. Many of the problems you might face have likely already been asked and aswered there, so just looking around usually provides a lot of information, but don't be afraid to post over there. They are there to help out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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