Windows XP Tutorials
How To Reinstall System Restore In Windows XP
If something has gone wrong with your System Restore program and you need to reinstall it
then this is the tutorial for you. By the time you have finished this tutorial System
Restore will be installed and working again, just follow the steps below.
Please Note: You Will need your Windows XP CD before attempting this tutorial.
Step One
Click on Start and Select Run
Or
Hold down the Windows key and press R
Step Two
Type in, or copy and paste the follow into the Run Dialog.
rundll32.exe advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %Windir%\Inf\sr.inf
Step Three
Click OK.
Step Four
Now Click Browse and navigate to your Windows CD
You will need to have your Windows XP CD in now
Step Five
Once in you CD navigate to one of the following folders, dependent upon your Windows
CD
\WINDOWS\Inf\i386\
\i386\
I can not walk you though finding this file as much as I would like to because if you
have a Backup, Restore Disk, OEM XP CD the file/folders are set out differently.
So if the file layout on your CD is different from one of the locations above then you are
looking for SR.sys which is usually in the Inf folder although like i said depending on
your CD it may be in the i386 folder
Step Six
Once you find SR.sys Double Click on it.
Step Six
You will now see the window below copying all the files over from the CD that are needed for to Reinstall System Restore.
Step Seven
Once the installation has complete you will know that its finished when your copying window has gone, you'll need to Reboot your computer for all the changes to take affect, And hopefully you wont have any more issues with the System Restore program.
