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June 30, 2003 at 02:16 PM
winmorgan

System Restore Greyed Out—Windows XP–

by winmorgan . Updated 23 years, 3 months ago

After trying unsuccessfully to update NAV today (I’m not sure that was the culprit, but problems started shortly thereafter), I noticed sluggish behavior and decided to use System Restore to return to pre the NAV update. But…System Restore is grayed out.

The other thing that happened around the same time this afternoon was that NAV reported a virus: w32.Kwbot.F.worm. Said it couldn?t repair the file. I restarted in Safe mode and trashed the file and emptied the trash, then restarted in regular mode.

I found one reference to increasing it’s memory but when I checked My Computer > Properties > System Restore, I found it was set at “Max.”

I have a 30 GB hard drive (this is on a Dell Inspiron 8200)and there is 1.8 GB left of space (according to C drive Properties.

I also just noticed, in trying to search MS’s database that all of the drop down menus in IE were blank, and found also that I couldn’t search a browser page (i.e., I type Ctrl-F which brings up search, enter a term, bug “Find” is grayed out.

I have the original OS disc and a Dell disc with Utilities etc., but nothing on the Dell disc looked like help…and I’m not sure what to do, if anything, with the Windows XP OS disc.

Any help tremendously appreciated.

Win

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