Hi all,
I noticed today that I cannot create restore points on my main computer. The automatic creation doesn’t seem to be working either, which I noticed when, probably about a week or two ago, I had to boot into safe mode due to a screw up causing windows to blue screen on booting (which afaik is completely unrelated to my current problem, the cause of which was a network bridge between my wireless adapter and a virtualbox host interace), but while there, I noticed I had no restore points, which I put down to the recent install of SP1, but when I tried to create one today, there were still none.
When I try to create a restore point, it sits with a loading bar for ages saying “Creating a restore point…”, then after about 10 minutes, stops with the following error message:
The restore point could not be created for the following reason:
The creation of a shadow copy has timed out. Try again this operation (0x81000101)
Please try again.
While not the same problem, I am also having problems with installers which may be relevent. A lot of installers (not all, but most) take an incredibly long time to complete. They usually sit at 0% for ages (anywhere from 5 minutes to half an hour) then begin to actually install, but more slowly than you’d expect usually, especially with the specs of my system. I don’t know if it is related, but as the problem with the creation of a shadow copy is a timeout I thought I’d mention it. Also, if anyone knows how to solve it then please share as it rather annoying (nothing more really, but still…).
Also, I have noticed recently that my CPU usage has gone through the roof. Normally after startup it remains stable at between 0% and 5%, when idle. But after a while, the CPU stars getting consumed more and more. According to resource monitor it is mainly being consumed by svchost (at the time of writing, svchost was using 98% of the CPU, when all that was running was this firefox window and background tasks). As you can imagine, this is a little concerning. It doesn’t seem to be affecting the performance though. These figures are coming from task manager, resource monitor and the screen on my Logitech G15 Keyboard
I have tried google for all 3 of these problems, but to no avail, and virus and malware scans all come out clean.
Other possibly relevent system details:
OS – Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 32-Bit
CPU – Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz (Q6600)
RAM – 4GB DDR2 (I am aware that 32-bit OSs cannot utilise it all)
MOBO – Asus P5K-Premium