Windows System Restore Utility Problems And Usage

I am not a big fan of Windows System restore ,for your information,By default Windows creates restore points at the time of significant system events.I is a handy tool free from Micresost.However,you should too rely on it,there are many factors thast can make Windows System Restore Utility Quits and All Restore Points Are Deleted! ...

Windows System Restore Utility Quits and All Restore Points Are Deleted!

   -- System restore folder or Windows Registry is corrupt
   -- Not enough hard-disk space to retain system restore points
   -- A system utility program or antivirus that is set to automatically clean
      up restore points
   -- Virus or malware in system disabling system restore

 How to Enable and Disable Windows XP's System Restore feature

System Restore (restorept.api) is a new Windows XP feature that's similar to "Last Known Configuration." However, System Restore maintains multiple restore points instead of one last restore point. The user can manually create restore points, or System Restore can keep restore points during the following operations:

Installing new software, if the application uses a current installer that is System Restore-compliant, Using AutoUpdate, During a restore operation, During a Microsoft backup or recovery operation, Installing an unsigned driver, Automatically following 24 hours of inactivity.

By default, System Restore monitors all partitions. So, for example, if you delete an executable file, you can have the system state revert to a specific restore point to recreate or repair the executable file. When you revert to a restore point, however, you lose all changes since that point, except for changes to files in the My Documents folder and documents you've created with applications such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

If you use System Restore and don't like the new system state, you can undo the process and restore the machine to the system state it had before you ran System Restore. Alternatively, you can run System Restore to change the system state to a different restore point.

To enable or disable System Restore, perform the following steps:

Start the System Control Panel applet. Select the System Restore tab. Clear the "Turn off System Restore on all drives" check box to enable System Restore, or select this check box to disable System Restore.  Click OK.  Also here:

To delete older restore points, but leave the system restore turned on: Right Click the Drive in question/Properties/Disk Cleanup/More Options/System Restore/Cleanup.

You can also click the Settings button to set a maximum amount of space that you want each drive to use for restore information. If the drive you select isn't the system drive, you can also disable System Restore on a per-drive basis. The maximum amount of space that you can use for restore information is 12 percent per drive.

An alternative to the usual method of enabling and disabling Windows XP's System Restore feature is to use the registry. To use this alternative, perform the following steps:  Start the registry editor (regedit.exe).

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore.
If a "DisableSR" value doesn't exist, go to the Edit menu, select New, DWORD value, and create the value.
Set the value to 1 to disable System Restore or 0 to enable System Restore.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sr to prevent the System Restore service from starting.





Ref:

• www.support.microsoft.com/kb/302796 on Troubleshooting steps for issues when you try to use the System .
•  kellys-korner-xp.com

firefox browser security settings problem:FIX

If you use FF browser and come across these Error message:

"Your browser security settings don't permit the editor to........."

 "Because of your browser security settings, the editor is not able to access your clipboard data directly. You are required to paste it again in this window. Please paste inside the following box using the keyboard (Ctrl+V)"

It not allow you to copy and paste when editing post,this problem happened on part of the content rich html post editor such as FCKEditor for WordPress.

note:"CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG editor,It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice."

According to firefox: To protect users' private information, unprivileged scripts cannot invoke the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands in the Mozilla rich text editor, so the corresponding buttons on the Mozilla Rich Text Editing demo page will not work. To enable these functions for purposes of the demo, you must modify your browser preferences.

Now that something very annoying and might be too complicated to certain users.

This post  talk about How to Set  browser security settings in the Firefox Browser,if your Clipboard not working at all,you should visit firefox to describes why the clipboard (Cut, Copy, Paste) may not work and get the solution.The url is:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Clipboard_not_working.


How to fix the firefox browser security settings problem:

Method #1 :
Bypass the JavaScript restriction .Rich text editors (such as implementations of Mozilla's Midas) often require access to the clipboard to use copy/paste functions. Other sites may copy useful information to the clipboard for the user to paste elsewhere. 

Detail at :
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Granting_JavaScript_access_to_the_clipboard


Method #2:
Get this Add-ons for Firefox:AllowClipboard Helper 

 After install the add on ,click on "tools",select "AllowClipboard Helper" to add the allow list.If you are running a local host wordpress, the "server" that add to the list would always be "http://localhost".It should able to solve the problem.


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