yellow51 wrote:
> System restore is restoring the registry...........for 5 hours (and counting!)
>
> I have vista home premium and i used the windows system restore to undo
> windows updates (which included a rather annoying ie8) the initial restore
> claimed to have failed and i was given the option to undo the restore, which
> i did... to my cost it seems. now i can't do anything with the laptop, no
> keys seem to be working and i have even tried to get the task manager up with
> no avail. I'm scared to turn the damn thing off incase i lose everything! any
> ideas?

I installed XP when it came out and have Vista on a computer I bought
about a year after that OS came out.
I am still waiting on My 1st restore to work.The driver restore worked
but system restore for Me is a waste of space.I now turn it off and use
conventional backup programs.Sometimes they work but most of the time I
just do clean install and reinstall programs from the backups.
The one time I tried to restore Vista It failed which was not to
surprising.So make them backups as I do from as far back as DOS,because
your going to loose data if You don't.