Ok, I have Windows ME,and while I was doing a system restore,the computer froze. I had no choice but to restart the computer. Well I restarted and now the system restore is gone. Its not in the start>program files>accessories>system tools area. What can I do to bring it back? I don’t want to reinstal windows because I have so many games and other downloaded files that I don’t want to d/l again. HELP MEEEEEEE!!!
Go back to Windows 98. It has all the old bugs that we all know, love and understand - instead of a complete set up new alien bugs.
I installed WMe once, for about 4 hours. Then reverted back to 98.
I really don’t see how you can have lost it. Just because the computer froze and you restarted it will not lose it. If you really lost it (and I repeat I don’t know how that is possible), you can purchase Norton Antivirus 2002, which has a Go Back feature, which is the same as System Restore. Costs $50. I think it is also possible just to download System Restore from the ME cd. You may have to go to DOS to do that.
Mike, calm down. You did not “lose” System Restore. It isn’t possible to just “lose” it. Here speaketh a veteran of many a wrestling match with Windows ME. Here is how to find it again.
Click on Help–that’s Start (the button down in the lower left-hand corner), then Help.
Right there on the Help and Support screen over on the left where it says “Fix a Problem”, there’s a link that says “Use System Restore”. Click on that.
If there’s baby oil and scissor holds involved save me a ringside seat!
I wonder if scandisk /restore at the dos prompt works for Me? I haven’t tried it but it seems it should bring the system registry back.
DDG: I have a Compaq and it takes me to the Compaq knowledge center. There is a link to Restore my presario, I clicked it,and there was was a link to System restore,but it gave me a Internet Explorer scrip error message.
bdb: ME came with the computer.
DDGoose gave me an idea. This may have occurred to you, but in case it hasn’t, go to Start-Find-Programs and look for System Restore. Or go to Start-Run and Run System Restore. If it’s still there, you’ll find it. I assume that you checked the double arrows at system tools to get all of them. They don’t always appear at first sight.
BTW, DDGoose, what city in Illinois do you live in? I have lived in Champaign, Peoria, and Springfield. I have to keep moving to keep one step of the tar and feathers. 
Decatur. “Pride of the Prairie”. Bars ‘n’ bowling alleys, and The Mall.
Hmm. Maybe it’s worth a shot to see if Compaq can help. Is this the same page that your “help” link takes you to? I got to this by typing “compaq system restore” into Google.
http://communities.compaq.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=121&RPAGEID=0
FWIW, my experience with ME is that it’s difficult to delete ANY system components, let alone by accident. System Restore is in there somewhere, the trick is to find where it’s hiding.
Try using Explorer to look for files? Right-Click on the Start button, a tiny menu comes up with “Open, Explore, Search”. Click on Explore (left click) and Windows Explorer comes up. Click on Search up in the Toolbar and Search for files and folders on Local Hard Drive containing System Restore. (If you select View–Details from the top pull-down menu, it’s easier to tell what’s in a file.)
When I do that, along with all the other files that have the word “system” or “restore” in it, there’s an icon that lists my System Restore as occurring as a shortcut in the Start menu.
Do you have the whole Microsoft “Help and Support” document on your computer? Maybe “Find a topic in the Index”? Look up System Restore–along with all the other “system restore” topics, mine has an interactive tutorial that walks you through “Restoring Windows to a previous state”.
In the Index, under System Restore–Overview, if you select Display (for Overview), it has another box that gives you a choice between “Using System Restore”, which isn’t much help, and “Guide to the System Restore Wizard”, which has links to “To create a restore point
To undo a restoration
Using System Restore to undo changes made to your computer”. See if any of those links work.
The other thing that I would suggest is that you defragment your computer. Sometimes you need to do ScanDisk first.
Sometimes during a freezeup, ME loses a teeny little file that it needs to run, and defragging finds it again.
Acessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter (or ScanDisk).
Turn off the screen saver and any other programs that are running before you defrag. If you try to defrag and it keeps getting up to 1 or 2% and then going back to 0, that means it needs to run ScanDisk first.
If ScanDisk won’t run either, then you try it in Safe Mode. To get into Safe Mode, you reboot (restart) and hold the Control key down. It gives you a little menu, and you choose Safe Mode.
IANA computer tech, and this is about the sum total of my experience.
My System Restore refused to go back to a Restore Point one day, it kept telling me that they were all not in a fit state to be used. What eventually happened was that the next time I was online, since I had Internet Options (Under Tools) set to “automatically check for Internet Explorer updates”, it downloaded something that it said it needed to install to fix the problem with System Restore, and I said “Okay”, and it did, and it was fixed.
You omitted home of the Firestone Faulty Tires, as well as the original home of the Chicago Bears, which team was known as the Decatur Staleys when George Halas first organized it. I went through Decatur often on my way from Springfield to points east, and I knew a fellow chessplayer in Decatur, David Taylor, but I doubt you know him. He lives in Kankakee now.
In explorer with all file types visible, RESTORE directory should show up as your first directory. Boy, its huge too. I don’t think anything could delete it that easily.
Well,I just bit the bulitt and reinstalled ME. I saved my important files, so I don’t have to worry about that. Thanks for all your help. If you excuse me,I have some serious downloading to do:D
Thats odd, if you reinstall, it should preserve all your old applications. Unless you did a format first …
You might make a second partitiion to store your old files should this happen again.