Arghhhhhh! XP Pro System Restore Problems

[wisdomwarrior23]

I performed a system restore on an XP Professional computer that crashed and everything went through it seemed okay. About a day later numerous programs started to hang and become non-responsive. I'm at the point now where I would just rather install Linux! No but seriously I've reinstalled service pack 1 after doing the system restore and that fixed my networking issues temporarily but now everything just freezes. I really hate dealing with the problems I've had with Windows XP Pro, I would rather deal with Windows 98 or NT Issues, because the Xp problems don't seem to have answers, you just have to redo from scratch. What should I do? This is a client site, they need to be up an running consistently with minimal problems, I have to drive 20 miles just to get to them on these issues.

 

[Bobg1]

Sounds like dynamite is the answer....

 

[wisdomwarrior23]

Yeah Right, tell me about it. Issues like these make me wonder what the heck Microsoft is thinking when they come up with these Operating Systems, I guess that's why you need a million MCSE's to help handle all the garbage Microsoft throws at us.
I don't mean to Microsoft Bash but something has got to give.!

 

[Vansplatter]

Maybe we are looking at this from the wrong angle-

It might be a faulty install due to a hardware problem, more than likely bad RAM. Check out your RAM and check out your CPU temp. Let me kow what you find.


-Van

 

[MasterofNone]

Had this problem with a poor PSU (and a low watt psu on another machine). Have you updated any hardware lately? or installed additional hardware (another hard drive or more powerful graphics card).

Not a complete lover of system restore. In a commercial enviroment, I would always perform a fresh install (even this I would suggest is a fresh install and not an image) But these are personal preferenses. Need to watch out as a couple of times I have used system restore and missed the lightningly fast warning that this has failed