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Can one make their own system restore date?

17 years ago

tech tweeked my font back to normal, and a couple days later this annoying little box comes up with program not responding, click now to end. I do that, but I know the program should be responding, I am just in email, and shutting down.

This occured before a system restore date on the program, and since the tech changed my font. Wondering if I can make my own date for a restore? Not sure I explained well, but asking anyway. XP is OS, everything fine but this.

I am always in muddy water it seems. As always appreciate any insight.

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owbist
17 years ago
If I understand you Shaddy you wish to restore to back before the issue of 'not responding' but after the tech did his work. If there is a restore point created in between those 2 dates then yes you can. However if there is none then you cannot restore to that time frame.

This is why I like to suggest (but often forget to do myself sadly) that people should create a restore point before making changes to their computer. Then if those changes do not create the desired effect the computer can be restored to before the changes made.

On the issue of 'not responding' take a look in your Event viewer next time this happens. To do so
click Start
click Control panel
click Administrative Tools
click Event viewer

Now you have a new window, look on the left site and click on System so you can view the results in the right side. Scroll down if needed looking for red error marks or yellow warning marks. Double click on any of these for further information. Much of it you will not understand but there will be a link there and if you click that you will be taken to the Microsoft site and hopefully an answer to your problem. If not then report back here with the error number and any pertinent comments they make.
shaddy101
Original Author
17 years ago
owbist, there is nothing there for red error marks, or yellow warnings, so I will just keep clicking the box and let it go, not a big deal, just annoying. But I guess as long as I am on this, why are there sometimes 2 days in a row that system restore can be done, as boldened on the calender, and sometimes over a week and nothing? Is this something we should be aware of and watchful of?
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Can't help on the restore thing Shaddy, I know very little about it and only ever used it once myself. But you can create them yourself as often as you wish. When I create one I add a comment so I know what I was attempting if things went wrong and I had a need to restore
fredferrell
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Shaddy,

You will need to run regedit and check your settings. The link below will give you some instructions on how to do it.

Here is a link that might be useful: How to change system restore settings in registry

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