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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 13, 2005 02:07 PM
 
Your welcome. ------------------
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paulkaye Member |
posted April 13, 2005 11:19 AM
Thanks for that. I can't get access to the machine yet so will try over the weekend and will let you know how it goes! Paul IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 12, 2005 02:22 PM
Alright here is what you need to do 1. Start the registry editor (regedit.exe). If you have any problems then let me know, if you don’t understand anything then do not continue with this. ------------------
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paulkaye Member |
posted April 12, 2005 06:31 AM
Hi again Josh, ok - I'm ready to play! Let me know what to do whenever you can. Paul IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 11, 2005 02:12 PM
Good point, well I will try to make it as clear as I can, so that you will not have any trouble. For some reason, system restore program does not work properly, so if the value that controls whether to keep it on or off has changed, we can turn it back on. What worries me is that the error message is a Policy one, so when we do change the value then the same error message may come back or the value that needs to be changed may have never been changed in the first place. ------------------
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 11, 2005 12:36 AM
I sent you the email. ------------------
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paulkaye Member |
posted April 10, 2005 06:30 AM
Doing it now - thank you! IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 10, 2005 01:22 AM
Okay well then email me them to me at web_95@hotmail.com, you can send them to me as an attatchment if you wish. ------------------
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paulkaye Member |
posted April 09, 2005 03:37 AM
Well I tried to do that but the files were so long that I think your forum wouldn't let me post them! I kept getting "This page cannot be displayed". This was without the SR-ChgLog.LOG as it is REALLY long (as if these ones aren't!) nor the C-- RPxx-rp.LOG files as there are so many! Any other solutions?!? Paul IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 09, 2005 12:03 AM
Okay you should be able to open the txt files in notepad, open them up and then you can post the results in your reply, you may or may not be able to open the log files, if you can then try notepad or just double click the icon and see if it opens and that you are able to read it. Don’t worry about it, without asking question how would we learn? ------------------
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paulkaye Member |
posted April 08, 2005 01:23 AM
Hi, Thanks for your reply. Here's what I've got: Service status was 'automatic' and 'started'. I tried system restore in safe mode but the same error message came up. As I said, I've tried srdiag but couldn't understand what I was looking at (!) so here is a list of what I have (do you not need to know the contents of the files?!?): _driver.cfg If you need me to send you any of the files, let me know. Any further suggestions? It's funny - I normally help others with comp stuff and I simply haven't a clue about this! Paul IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 07, 2005 11:46 PM
Yea its never a good idea to mess with the registry, so lets see if I can walk you through it. Alright the first article does not apply to you because you are using Home and not Professional. Let’s make sure the service is not disabled, go to start-control panel-administrative tools-services. Now the list is in alphabetical order, so hit the “s” key until you see system restore. Once found, double click it, make sure startup type is set to automatic, and service status is started, if it is not then do so, then hit apply and ok. Now if the service is already started then lets try this. Restart the computer, when the computer is restarting hit the F8 key until you get to a menu, then from that menu choose safe mode, then once in safe mode Windows try and start system restore, let us know if it does or does not work. Then restart your computer normally, if that does not work then try this. Go to start-run then type in srdiag.exe then press enter, a file should have been made that will help us help you, the file you made, you should be able to right click it and then look for extract, extract the files to the desktop. Now I have a question for you, that folder you extracted what files are in there? Let us know what happens and what the contents of that folder is, if you want to just tell us the names of the files within that folder, so we can help you. ------------------
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paulkaye Member |
posted April 07, 2005 09:14 AM
Hiya, Well, I've read that through and through but I'm not entirely clear what I should be scanning for!!! I've run srdiag.exe and got the CAB file but don't know what I'm looking at. I've flicked through the text files but can't see anything terribly helpful! Paul IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 04, 2005 03:18 PM
Have a look at this and see if it helps, http://www.footslog.com/board/Forum14/HTML/000244.html If not then let us know. ------------------
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paulkaye Member |
posted April 04, 2005 11:35 AM
Sorry - forgot to mention. I have Home Edition IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 03, 2005 11:17 PM
Do you have XP Professional or Home edition? ------------------
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paulkaye Member |
posted April 03, 2005 01:50 PM
I'm new to this forum but it looks promising! I'm having a strange problem with System Restore. None of my system restore tabs are visible so it would seem like I wasn't logged in as an administrator. The error that I get when I try to load the system restore ultility is "System Restore has been turned off by group policy. To turn on System Restore contact your domain administrator." Again, this looks like I'm not logged in as an administrator. BUT I AM! I am the only user of this computer and 'guest' login is disabled. I do not login to XP each time I boot as there is only one user - me. If I go to users in control panel, I see that my user is an administrator. I can't find the answer to this one anywhere and you guys seem to know what you're talking about! Many thanks in advance, Paul IP: Logged |
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