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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Restore point creation and task scheduler 'catastrophic failure'
« on: January 08, 2016, 07:50:26 am »
Having run Windows Repair v3.7.4 in safe mode on a PC and a Laptop both running Vista (one 32 bit the other 64bit) both machines had the same serious problem. When trying to create a restore point from within Windows I got the error "The restore point could not be created - catastrophic failure 0x8000FFFF" Got same error trying to access Task Scheduler. Attempting to do a System Restore from an existing restore point also failed.
Thankfully I had taken the advice in the program to back up the entire registry and also create a restore point from within the program. By restoring the registry from within the program itself, I was able to get the two machines working properly again.
I would like to run the program again as it appeared to have made some significant improvements but I am obviously wary of doing so in case the same problems occur and may not be so lucky in succeeding with the restore a second time.
Any ideas what may have caused these problems and whether unticking any of the options in running it would bypass the likely cause?
Incidentally, I reset the following Services several times to 'automatic' and rebooted several times but the error remained on both machines - WMI Performance adaptor, Background Intelligent transfer, Windows Management Instrumentation, Windows search and Plug and Play.
Thankfully I had taken the advice in the program to back up the entire registry and also create a restore point from within the program. By restoring the registry from within the program itself, I was able to get the two machines working properly again.
I would like to run the program again as it appeared to have made some significant improvements but I am obviously wary of doing so in case the same problems occur and may not be so lucky in succeeding with the restore a second time.
Any ideas what may have caused these problems and whether unticking any of the options in running it would bypass the likely cause?
Incidentally, I reset the following Services several times to 'automatic' and rebooted several times but the error remained on both machines - WMI Performance adaptor, Background Intelligent transfer, Windows Management Instrumentation, Windows search and Plug and Play.