-=PCTechTalk=- Re: system restore problem

  • From: "Dolores" <dshelham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:49:44 -0400

I should have administrator rights but maybe that's the problem and the 
reformat messed a setting up - how do I check that?  Yes I have a Compaq 
(HP) Presario 3100+  Dolores
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Andrew Dulaney Jr." <rdulaneyjr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 4:21 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: system restore problem


>
>  Hello Dolores
>
>  Am I to assume you have administrator rights?
>  This version of XP is what SP?
>  and more for curiosity sake you have an HP model . . .?
>
>
> Dolores <dshelham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  I've tried to ignore the problem but now it's bugging me again. I'm 
> running
> XP and had to do 3 reformats (don't even ask me why because it was a
> nighmare) recently. I am the only one who uses this computer so no other
> users with passwords and I don't use a password. Everything worked fine
> except the system restore which was part of the reason I had to do the
> reformats. When I try to schedule a task I get an error saying that I 
> don't
> have permission. When I contact HP via webchat she told me I had to put in
> a password for my user name (didn't have one before!) and we walked 
> through
> it and it seemed to work. Well it didn't. I had it set to do a system
> restore in the middle of the night and when I woke up all I saw was that
> system restore was opened but did not perform the task. The password thing
> was a royal pain every time I rebooted so took it out since it didn't 
> solve
> the problem. I tried googling the error message but the results basically
> said I needed to make sure I had 'permission' to set a task. I would think
> since it's my computer and only mine I should have permission. I can do a
> manual system restore which I try to remember to do every night but that 
> is
> a pain in the you know what. Sure would appreciate a solution to this
> problem. Thanks. Dolores
>
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