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System Restore Failure
Have a Dell 8100 running Windows Me. Have been having a problem with what seems to be memory leaks. Quicken, which I use pretty extensively, has been having problems and crashing. Thought I'd use the system restore feature in case my kid added some programs that messed up my registries etc.
Well, I ran it to reconfigure me back a few months. When it tried to reboot, there was some sort of weird, almost DOS looking screen saying that my Norton Anti-Virus could not intialize its database or something like that... No worries, right? I'll undo the restore. Whoops, not going to happen. Keeps failing. So here I am with shortcuts going to nowhere, old versions of software trying to be started and a total mess.
Is there a way to get things back to normal manually?
distillers168
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Posted November 6th, 2002 21:00
When using system restore, make SURE to disable your anti-virus software(ctrl + alt + delete to see if you have it running) beforehand.hockey4_mom
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Posted November 12th, 2002 13:00
Should this be done with a Dimension XPS T700r Windows 98 too?????? If I want to restore back to a couple months..usually when i tried to restore it only took me back about 4 days.........I would love to restore my comp back a few months cause I have had probelms with my comp freesing up too or we get errors with diff programs...including explorer
kennyk-alias
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Posted November 6th, 2002 18:00
I would redo the system restore to the point you wanted. You will have to reinstall any software you've installed after that restore point. Icons leading nowhere, check and make sure the software doesn't exist on your harddrive. If all it is is an icon, then delete it. If there is leftover debris from it, try removing it using add/remove programs. If that doesn't work, try reinstalling it then removing it using add/remove programs. As for the NAV initialization error, see here:
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/8d071816eedd7cac88256c0e005a96e5/06436e1ff2666a158825696200619851?OpenDocument