On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:12:04 -0400 Bert Kinney <bert@NSmvps.org> wrote:

> This is very odd, I have never heard of this happening before.
It certainly is. The first time it happened I assumed it must have been a
corrupted restore point, so chose another restore point (several in fact)
and the same thing happened every time. Flushing all restore points and
starting again with a newly created restore point failed as well.

What I don't really know is, is System restore failing to restore the
registry when a restore point is chosen, or is it failing to back it up
when a restore point is created.

> While troubleshooting this you may want to install Erunt to ease the
> pain of restoring the registry.

I have done that now!

> I would expect something like this to happen if there were a power
> failure during the restore process. But this does not seem to be the
> case.

No, no power failures, lockups, or anything like that. No programs that
might just interfere with SR were left running either.

> You will want to make sure the system malware free also.

Done that with several different scanners (Ad-aware, Spybot, XoftSpy, AVG,
AntiVir and the MS offerings).

> You may want to create a HiJackThis and examine it.
Tried that. Nothing untoward in the HiJackThis log.

> Has there been any new hardware or software installed recently?
No, apart from MS Windows updates, and on HP update (see below).

> Are there any Norton applications installed?
No, nothing, never!

> Will System Restore complete in Safe Mode?
Don't think I tried Safe Mode. Tried so many it's hard to remember...

I originally used System Restore to get rid of an un-installable
(HP/Compaq) update that I did not like. This is when I first found SR was
not working. The PC is now working fine, and I am now a bit reluctant to
attempt an unnecessary SR in case it screws the PC completely.

Eddy.