How Can I Use System Restore When I Have Anti-Virus/Spyware Protection?

Question

I desperately need to use system restore on my computer, but every time I attempt it, it says that "System Restore cannot be completed". When I click "Help", it says that the problem may be due to the fact that I got Anti-Virus/Spyware and Firewalls installed on my computer (which I'm aware that I do). How can I use System Restore while being able to keep my "protection" running and functioning? Please give me answers in as simplified form as possible.

Answer 1

There is no logic to what you have written. System Restore, does not always restore 100%. And your firewall, antiviurs/antispyware has no relationship to a system restore. If you know the date when you put in your protection and your system will allow you to perform a system restore after the date your security was installed. You will still have your security on a system restore.

Some times a system restore, performs a 100% restore, other times, will only restore until it will say was not able to complete a full system restore. Your pc still should work. If you have any missing programs, just reinstall them.

Minddoctor, France

Answer 2

try this:

'Antivirus utilities can affect whether your system can be restored to a previous point. If a restore point contains an infected file because the utility is not set to clean the file within the restore point, or if an infected file has been removed from a restore point by an antivirus utility because it could not be cleaned, System Restore will not recover the computer to this partial or infected state. If System Restore could not restore your computer to a previous state, and you suspect that one or more restore points contain infected files or have had infected files removed by the antivirus utility, you can remove all restore points from the System Restore archive by turning off System Restore and then turning it back on.'

Answer 3

Insert your residing domicile windows XP CD. Then as quickly as you reboot your computing gadget, save on with the regulations till finally you get to the section that asks even with in case you choose for to create a partition. Erase the previous partition and reformat the now no longer easycontinual. Then this is going to reboot and then initiate installation residing domicile windows XP onto your computing gadget. in the adventure that your computing gadget desires as properly out of your A: ability, this is your floppycontinual, then you definately certainly ought to pass into the BIOS and alter the boot upcontinual order as properly up from the CD-ROMcontinual first. to objective this, press and carry between the F keys or the Delete key on your keyboard, mutually as the computing gadget is purely taking off as much as boot. On mine this is the Delete key. reliable success.

Answer 4

read this from microsoft

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831829