System Restore Does not Work, What to Do?

System restore is a helpful and important function in Windows system. It helps to backup the system when any important change is made, so you can get your computer back to previous state if any damage is caused by the change. However, system restore sometimes does not work due to certain errors. Usually when this case happens, many people will desperately reinstall the entire Windows and start from scratch. If you are having this problem and you haven’t done the full reinstallation, read this article and it may help you save a lot of time and energy.

If you are seeing error messsage as below:

System Restore could not access a file.

An unspecified error occurred during System Restore, (0×80070005)

System Restore did not complete successfully. Your computer’s files and settings were not changed.

 

 Please follow below instructions to fix it:

First, disable your antivirus and firewall sofftware.

Anvirus software is always the first to be blamed for failed system restore. It does protect the computer from virus and malware, but it also blocks any action that wants to replace system files. Such action is always what virus wants to do. Unfortunately, to do a system restore, the computer has to replace all current system files with old versions so to get the system back to previous state. So, make sure to turn off your antivirus and firewall before you do that.

Second, run a system file check to see if any file is missing.

• How to run sfc by administrator on windows 7 /vista:
  Go to Start / All Programs / Accessories.
  Right click the Command Prompt item and select the ‘Run As Administrator’ option.
  Click Continue on the UAC prompt.
  In the command prompt window, type the following command.
  SFC /SCANNOW
  Press ENTER.
  (Make sure the command is entered exactly as shown, including the space)
  This will take a few minutes to run, try not to use the computer while it is running.
  After this is finished, exit any running programs and reboot the computer.

• How to run sfc by administrator on windows xp:
  press Win+R button on your keyboard
  type cmd press enter
  type SFC /SCANNOW
  Press ENTER.
  (Make sure the command is entered exactly as shown, including the space)
  This will take a few minutes to run; try not to use the computer while it is running.
  After this is finished, exit any running programs and reboot the computer.

Third, get a registry cleaner to clean the registry errors. A good registry cleaner will help you to clean registry, fix errors and improve system performance. Use such tool will help you fix all the problems, you don’t even have to do system restore to solve the problem. It is just so simple to use and so quick to fix.