The biggest problem with the System Restore and Previous Versions features
is that they often don??™t work. If they??™re not properly set up, the restore
points on which they rely don??™t get made.
To fully enable restore points, start by opening the System Protection window.
Open the Start menu, type SystemPropertiesProtection, and press
Enter. (Or, open the System page in Control Panel, click the Advanced system
settings link on the left, and choose the System Protection tab.) Here,
place a checkbox next to drive C: and any other drive for which you want
to create restore points, and then click Apply. Unless those checkmarks
were already present, take this opportunity to save a restore point by clicking
Create.
Next, open the Services window (services.msc), and find the Volume
Shadow Copy entry in the list. If it doesn??™t say Started in the Status column,
double-click the entry, and from the Startup type list, select Automatic.
Click Start to get the service running, and then click OK. Do the
same for the Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider service as well.
Lastly, check your PC for utilities that may not be fully compatible with
Vista??™s restore points. For instance, some Registry ???cleaners,??? like TuneUp
Utilities and CCleaner, have been known to interfere with restore points
(among other things). And Diskeeper 2007 (defragmenter software) and earlier
versions were known to erase shadow copy data (Diskeeper 2008 fixes
this problem).
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