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General Computer Support / (SOLVED) Remote Desktop cannot be enabled, Windows 7 Professional.

« on: October 23, 2015, 05:16:28 pm »

I am trying to enable remote desktop on my Windows 7 system.
I am setting up a site to site vpn and I need it to be able to get to my router here from the other site.

For some reason, even though I have turned on RDC, checked all the services in services.msc (some do not allow me to start them) I cannot connect to the system, and the problem is clearly this particular computer.
I turned off the firewall, no difference.

I have forwarded a port through my router and set the RDC port to that port.
I used a remote ping service from here, and it reports that port is closed.
http://ping.eu/port-chk/

So to test, I turned on RDC on the default port on my old notebook computer, XP, and on the router I forwarded the default port 3389 to that computer.  The port check site says that port is open. I changed the port to test to 3388 and the port is closed. Duh, I didn't forward that one. So the port test works.

The problem is the windows 7 professional system. Something is preventing RDC from working.

Any ideas for steps to isolate this problem? 

I did remove KB2984972 which added an additional security setting, but that did not solve this problem.

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General Computer Support / System Restore points silently disappear

« on: August 08, 2015, 07:39:51 pm »

This is a window 7 x64 system.

I had a piece of malware on this system, which I was able to kill.
So that was deleted and I feel confident it's not a problem anymore.

I went through the process over at Bleepingcomputer.  They declared it clean.

The problem I have left is system restore was not creating restore points. I found there was no space allocated.

I was able to allocate space on my system drive, and I was able to create points manually, both with system protection and with System Restore Manger v2.
By the next day they were missing.

I found a system backup service was not running, and after I enabled that the system automatically created a restore point associated with windows update.
I also created a couple manually.

The next morning they were still there.  So far so good.
By that evening, there were none again.

I just created one manually with system protection and one with system restore manager. 
I will wager in 24 hours they will both be missing.

I did notice this in the event log

   volsnap              The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume C:.

That's the only red item in the system log from today.

Can anyone suggest any steps to isolate this issue?
Drive C seems to be working great.  I ran seagate tools on it.  They declared it fine.