sys restore prob in Win 7

[tape]

Have Win 7 professional on older Dell. All was working well until this past weekend when my Dell would lock and refuse to come back from sleep and then locking up in middle of using an app. I tried to restore to an earlier date (3 days earlier) but machine would not complete the restore. I then began working my way towards the current restore point, 4 restore points away. Every single restore point was refused by the system. What is sense of have restore points if I can't use them? I thought this was a thing of the past when I went to Win 7. Is it just a Microsoft thing or is there a work-around? Is there a minimum amount of disk space I should allot for restore points? I currently have it set to 20% of partition space and the total space used on the system partition was 80% used.

[EzyStvy]

When the restore failed did you get an error message you could GOOGLE?

[tape]

No specific message other than the generic unable to restore to this specific restore point

[nightfishing]

1. Do you use a registry cleaner? If so, make sure to add "mui" to it's ignore list. I had issues with restore points being unrestorable due to this.

2. Since they are built incrementally, if one goes bad, all the latter ones will go bad as well. I suggest cleaning them out regularly. Restore isn't ideal for rolling back to a state 3 months ago (or 2 years ago), use a full image backup for that and keep restore to recover from bad sw installs and other daily or weekly hiccups.


3. I would also keep old fashioned registry backups handy. I use ERUNT and the benefit of these over restore points is that they are NOT incremental and pretty much fool proof and easy to store, backup and move.

I've got three Dell computer's and so far the older two, (both xp) had to be started in "safe mode" for system restore to work. Third one's new (win 7) and haven't goofed it up yet to use system restore.

[tape]

I'm beginning to think my inability to restore to an earlier time wouldn't help with my situation. Over these past few days, I am having lockup problems again and again. Sometimes while in the middle of running an app and once in the middle of a restart. Restart repair CD couldn't help. Seems to have cured itself after a few hours of having power off, but I am probably looking at a mother board failure. I'm just hoping the thing stays together long enough for me to transfer my files to the new machine that is coming.