Mike
Tue Jul 22 13:19:00 CDT 2003
Thanks for responding. Having been away from the NGs for a couple of weeks I
don't know what has already been covered.
If you can create manual checkpoints then the lack of automatic checkpoints is
due to one of two general reasons. Either there is no system idle time, such
as when the user is running a programs like seti@home, or because a background
application is fooling Win Me's state manager.exe into thinking that the
system is not idle although this is not in fact the case. Examples of the
latter utility include v4 of MotherBoardMonitor (but not v5), Cacheman, The
Cleaner (TCActive and TCMonitor) and Norton's System Doctor where users have
reported use of the Disk Health sensor has prevented the creation of automatic
checkpoints. NAV7 has also been reported as causing similar problems in
certain circumstances. Other users have reported similar behaviour due to
their always on cable or ADSL connection continually polling their HD and thus
giving the impression that the system is never idle.
A significant number of users report that 3.x versions of Zone Alarm also
prevent the creation of automatic checkpoints but this doesn't seem to affect
all ZA users (including myself). Similar problems have been experienced by
BlackIce users and other software firewalls have also been reported to cause
some users similar problems.
One user recently reported that B's CLIP UDF packet writing software
(
http://www.bhacorp.com/products/clip/clip.html) also prevented the creation
of automatic checkpoints.
Basically you will have to do the hard work in determining what is interfering
with the operation of System Restore by stopping the various background
processes and activities that you have launching when you boot your system
until you discover which is causing you the problems. A good place to start
would be to look at any new application that you might have installed since
you are positive that System Restore was last creating automatic checkpoints.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com
saucebox <freytag@groundnet.com> wrote:
> I *can* create manual checkpoints,checkpoints *may* be created after
> programmes installations and *are* created after System Restore
> Disble/Enable but the computer will not create them automaticlly after
> idling for ' 2 minutes or more'.I have the correct version of SMGR.DLL.
> and the SR cache is set at 200Mb.Task Schediuler and Public Health are
> disabled.Programmes running in the background have been stripped to the
> bones.I have a P4/1.7Ghz,60Gb HD partitioned 10/50 and 256mb of memory.
> I have been using 'SetPoint'-'the programme MS should have included in
> SR'-which creates manual checkpoints automatically at scheduled
> intervals.That seems to work fine.Unfortunately it is shareware but I
> *would* like to know what's wrong.Noel and Tony have been helping me but
> so far to no avail.