LintMan
Senior member
I'm in a bit of a bind. For some reason, I can no longer run the System Restore Service in WInXP Pro.
It's set for automatic startup, but cannot start due to these errors, as reported in the event log:
The System Restore initialization process failed.
The System Restore Service service terminated with the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.
If I try to start the System Restore Service manually, I get the message:
Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified.
That path error is very odd. From the service properties, I see the path is specified as:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
I've checked, and svchost is right there where it should be in C:\WINDOWS\System32. Also, several other services seem to use the exact same executable path, and they start fine.
From what I can tell, the only dependency for the SR service is the RPC service, and that is automatically started, and it runs fine.
Any ideas how to fix this?
It's set for automatic startup, but cannot start due to these errors, as reported in the event log:
The System Restore initialization process failed.
The System Restore Service service terminated with the following error:
The system cannot find the path specified.
If I try to start the System Restore Service manually, I get the message:
Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified.
That path error is very odd. From the service properties, I see the path is specified as:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
I've checked, and svchost is right there where it should be in C:\WINDOWS\System32. Also, several other services seem to use the exact same executable path, and they start fine.
From what I can tell, the only dependency for the SR service is the RPC service, and that is automatically started, and it runs fine.
Any ideas how to fix this?
