I had a interesting challenge today with a very slow laptop. I did all the usual things, deleted unnecessary programs, cleaned up the startup list, removed Norton Internet Security, deleted all temporary files and folders, etc. And then came to the cleanup of System Restore which was using over 7Gb of disk space. But there was no System Restore tab in the System Properties!
First, I checked the services and sure enough System Restore service was set to Automatic but was stopped. Tried to start it and got 'Code 5: Access is denied'. Did a search on Google and there was some information about clearing registry entries that disabled it, but all to no avail. Then I ran a virus and spyware check but nothing was found.
Finally started thinking about repair installing Windows and I thought about just reinstalling only System Restore. I did a little bit of investigation about this and found that right clicking and selecting Install on C:\WINDOWS\inf\sr.inf started this off. Give it the latest Service Pack files in C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles and then reboot. System Restore is restored and the restore point storage area is cleaned out as well. Worth knowing.
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