Is there any reason system restore on Windows 7 is not successful?
It has happened several times before and I searched the registry to remove traces of the program I wanted to be rid of (not suspicious, just not useful)
This time I downloaded a "Giveaway of the Day" and checked what users had to say on download.com (after installing unfortunately). A fair number of users warned that it carried spyware and even worse. For what it's worth I never opened the program. I uninstalled using Revo uninstaller and manually deleted two more items found in a reg edit search. Still nervous, I tried to do a system restore that didn't succeed. I went back a couple of weeks and tried another that didn't work. In the past several months I tried a couple of time and it didn't work. Actually it has never worked.
I run firefox in sandboxie and have Avast security suite. After recovery, before installing, I scanned the downloaded file with Avast and Malabytes and it passed.
Just now I scanned my computer with malabytes which found no problem.
Does anyone have any idea why system restore won't restore? I have several system backups, none very recent. Not sure when I first tried to restore, likely several months after getting the PC.
I use CCleaner often, but doubt that would erase anything that would stop system restore. How concerned should I be about this? And can anyone suggest how to restore the system restore function. While I wait I'll try find that problem on microsoft's website.
Would be grateful for your advice!
It has happened several times before and I searched the registry to remove traces of the program I wanted to be rid of (not suspicious, just not useful)
This time I downloaded a "Giveaway of the Day" and checked what users had to say on download.com (after installing unfortunately). A fair number of users warned that it carried spyware and even worse. For what it's worth I never opened the program. I uninstalled using Revo uninstaller and manually deleted two more items found in a reg edit search. Still nervous, I tried to do a system restore that didn't succeed. I went back a couple of weeks and tried another that didn't work. In the past several months I tried a couple of time and it didn't work. Actually it has never worked.
I run firefox in sandboxie and have Avast security suite. After recovery, before installing, I scanned the downloaded file with Avast and Malabytes and it passed.
Just now I scanned my computer with malabytes which found no problem.
Does anyone have any idea why system restore won't restore? I have several system backups, none very recent. Not sure when I first tried to restore, likely several months after getting the PC.
I use CCleaner often, but doubt that would erase anything that would stop system restore. How concerned should I be about this? And can anyone suggest how to restore the system restore function. While I wait I'll try find that problem on microsoft's website.
Would be grateful for your advice!