Thanks for your input, and the link. I will check that out.

Between my visits to my parents, there aren't many changes to their system.
They mainly use it for email and my Dad's Flight simulator. When I visit, I
download updates to software and clean things up. This is whey I thought it
would be good to use the restore point that I made during my last visit.

I would think that manually created (custom) restore points wouldn't be
deleted automatically. That's just my logic, though.



"Bert Kinney" wrote:

> quebi wrote:
> > Summary of Problem: When trying to restore to a custom restore point,
> > created in September, the calendar will not go back past October!
> > Therefore, I can't restore to the last custom restore point!
>
> The calendar only shows available restore points. By default System
> Restore (SR) holds restore points for maximum of 90 days. The amount of
> days restore points are held can also depend on the size of the restore
> points and the amount of disk space assigned to hold them. Going back to
> September would probably cause more problems than it solves.
> You may also find this page helpful.
> Keeping System Restore Healthy
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/healthy.html
>
> > More details: Recently, my parents computer was unbootable. My dad
> > answered "yes" to a system restore prompt at the DOS prompt. After
> > that, all the user settings and software configuration that I'd
> > worked HOURS on, in September, were gone.
>
> I agree with Ted, and your dad did a system recovery. SR doesn't prompt
> the user to restore the system.
>
> When did your dad perform the recovery? And how may restore points are
> there available?
>
> > Since we don't live in the
> > same city, I am trying to provide system support, over the
> > long-distance telephone line and I have tried to walk my mother
> > through the system restore process. However, whenever we get to the
> > calendar, she is unable to go back to September. She can only see
> > October and November. She is logged in as "Owner", since that is the
> > only user that was on the computer after my dad did the restore.
> > Argh!
> >
> > What could be the problem? Why would the calander not go back beyond
> > October? I'm assuming that "owner" has admin rights, so that can't
> > be it. I'm lost.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
> http://bertk.mvps.org
>
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