On Apr 10, 3:21Â am, mkenewbie
wrote:
> Since 2 days ago when I check System Restore, all it has is the most current
> restore point. In the past I would show about 2 months worth of prior restore
> points. A new one would be automatically created each day. Now only todays is
> there.
>
> I checked and the settings still look proper as to what they always were.
> System Restore is turned ON and it is set at %12 (max).
>
> What could have changed and how can fix it to not purge all prior points
> except the current one?
Well, if you didn't do it accidentally or using some kind of XP
cleaning up program, something did it for you.
When you run System Restore are you presented with a calendar and you
only see one RP? If you think there used to be a whole bunch and now
there is only one, that sounds like maybe a disk cleanup option or
some third party cleanup my system to was used with options to delete
all but the most recent restore point.
Have you run anything like CCleaner and configured it (perhaps
accidentally) to delete all but the most recent restore point?
The built in XP disk cleanup also has an option to delete all but the
most recent restore point - have you run disk cleanup lately?
If you turn SR off and back on manually, that will wipe out all your
old RPs (that is proper operation). Since you seem to know where it
is by knowing the percentage, you have been in that area of your
system configuration.
RPs do not accumulate forever and it is possible to go many, many days
without an RP being created. That does not necessarily mean there is
a problem. If your old ones just seemed to have disappeared - all but
the last one, something did it for you or you did it for yourself.
XP would like to create a new RP every 24 hours, but it may not create
one. RPs automatically get created only under the "right" conditions
and sometimes the conditions may not be right (as far as XP is
concerned). Even if my computer is running every day, I have many
holes of empty days in my calendar with no RPs, but I know my SR
works. I used to wonder how in the world I could have a day or
several days in a row with no RP, but of course there is a reasonable
explanation for it when you know how it all really works.
If none of that sounds familiar or likely, then I would do this:
Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware
detection programs:
Malwarebytes (MBAM):
http://malwarebytes.org/
SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS):
http://www.superantispyware.com/
They can be uninstalled later if desired.
If you still have issues then eliminate questions and guessing, please
provide additional information about your system.
Click Start, Run and in the box enter:
msinfo32
Click OK, and when the System Summary info appears, click Edit, Select
All, Copy and then paste the information back here.
There will be some personal information (like System Name and User
Name), and whatever appears to be private information to you, just
delete it from the pasted information.
Make a manual RP - or make several and see what the calendar looks
like then.