anybody know about system restore in Windows XP?

[davexnet]

Hi all, accidentally deleted all the system shortcuts at \documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs

I had a system restore point from a few hours earlier but it failed and no changes were made.
I ran the srdiag.exe program to find out what was wrong and i see the following line which shows the
error and the point where it commences the "undo"

543, 542,13693, Rename, Fail, 123, F:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\dtscsi.sys:Updt_SummaryInformation, F:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\dtscsi.sys:SummaryInformation,
544, , , START UNDO

Looks like it's trying to rename dtscsi.sys to the same name, not sure why it would fail. This file is a
driver for daemon tools. (uninstalled long ago, but the file left in the folder). Perhaps I should try the restore in
safemofe? If it fails again I have a second install of XP, can probably rebuild the icons from there

 

[DaveSimmons]

>> anybody know about system restore in Windows XP?

Not really but are you doing this using an account that has admin rights? I'd expect even XP to protect some folders against limited users.

 

[davexnet]

Yes I'm using an XP admin account. I'm not exactly sure why/how *anything* was deleted from that location,
it happened as a result of running an uninstaller for something I had on my PC for a program I know longer needed -
I don't think it was malicious some weird circumstance caused it.

I've had luck using SRDIAG before to diagnose and fix system restore, but this time, I've no idea
what it's trying to tell me.

I recreated (mostly) the deleted contents by copying some stuff out of another XP install

 

[Skunk-Works]

Try running autoruns and disabling dtscsi.sys. You can search for it in the search box while in the Everything tab. Don't disable anything you shouldn't.