mitroxis

I have not yet found and answer for this question. Maybe you can help.

I need to restore my Vista back to sometime last week. My only restore points are from today! WTF? I noticed some versions of Vista have a "View restore points from last 5 days" check box. I'm SOL. I don't have that option. Is there another way I can restore the system or somehow find an older restore point?

PC eye

Did you install anything new today? Even seeing MS updates go on will see restore points created unless the creation of new points was turned off. The new ones are simply from the first startup of the day being automatically created.

Some other questions could be asked here like are you presently dual booting XP along with Vista at the present time? When booting into XP in a dual boot setup XP will automatically neutralize the Vista restore points making them totally useless!

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mitroxis

I didn't install anything new. I started getting one of those web browser viruses. System restore has always fixed the problem before. (I have virus protection now...the computer was new and I hadn't gotten it yet.) I'm not dual booting either.

The point is, I can't restore from a point last week like I could with XP. Is there any way I can do that?

PC eye

Without any restore points available you can't roll the system back. After so many days old points are automatically deleted to make room for new ones. A lot of that is controlled by how much drive space is reserved ahead of time.

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/q_a.html answers quite a few questions on the restore feature in Vista there. If the restore was turned off and then later turned back on by some 3rd party tool all previous restore points would have been wiped. You are now left with the latest seen in the list.

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mitroxis

No. Nothing was turned off. Today, all the restore points are from today. And tomorrow will be tomorrows. And there is still...five days later...no option to see the last five days worth of restore points. There's lots of drive space reserved. I'm going back to XP. Old restore points weren't deleted and went back to as far as I needed them. Vista has been a depressing and horrible experience. I didn't even get into the fact that every time I try to edit video the computer shuts down...and the computer and drivers super exceed the bare minimums for the software to work properly.

PC eye

That's a little odd since the oldest here is from 4/10 following a reinstall of Windows. If you leave your system running 24/7 all the time then there won't be many without new programs being installed or periodic updates going on where you will see a new point being created at the time.

You can also manually create them along the usual one each time the system is turned on for the first time on each day. If you were not shutting the system down fully and simply letting it go into sleep/hibernate that would be one reason for not seeing hardly any points at all.

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