system restore does not create checkpoints

[Oren Yulevitch]

I use WinMe.
Can anyone tell me why the system does not create new checkpoints?
I can make one manually.
I can restore.
I have about 2.5G free space (out of 19G) on my C drive (system disk)
I have also D+E (30G Free/40G and 21G free/40G)

Any ideas?
What do I need to check/enable in order to make this work.

Oren

[Mike M]

Oren,

There can be many reasons for lack of regular automatic system created
checkpoints including running programs such as seti@home, folding@home or
other similar programs, or because a background application is fooling Win
Me's state manager.exe into thinking that the system is not idle although this
is not in fact the case. Examples of the latter utility include v4 of
MotherBoardMonitor (but not v5), Cacheman, The Cleaner (TCActive and
TCMonitor) and Norton's System Doctor where users have reported use of the
Disk Health sensor has prevented the creation of automatic checkpoints. NAV7
has also been reported as causing similar problems in certain circumstances.
Other users have reported similar behaviour due to their always on cable or
ADSL connection continually polling their HD and thus giving the impression
that the system is never idle.

A significant number of users report that 3.x versions of Zone Alarm also
prevent the creation of automatic checkpoints but this doesn't seem to affect
all ZA users (including myself). This problem seems though to have been
fixed in the newer 4.x version of ZA Pro. Similar problems have been
experienced by BlackIce users and other software firewalls have also been
reported to cause some users similar problems.

One user has reported that B's CLIP UDF packet writing software
(http://www.bhacorp.com/products/clip/clip.html) prevented the creation of
automatic checkpoints and another that they had experienced the same problem
with Roxio's DirectCD. Another user has also reported that CookieWall by
AnalogX will prevent automatic checkpoints being made if its "Scan for cookies
every .... seconds" is set to a value less than 121 seconds (two minutes).
--?
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Oren Yulevitch > wrote:

> I use WinMe.
> Can anyone tell me why the system does not create new checkpoints?
> I can make one manually.
> I can restore.
> I have about 2.5G free space (out of 19G) on my C drive (system disk)
> I have also D+E (30G Free/40G and 21G free/40G)
>
> Any ideas?
> What do I need to check/enable in order to make this work.

[Oren Yulevitch]

Mike,
Thank you for the detailed answer.
Now comes the next question.

From your list I identify only one item ADSL connection. My kids use ICQ and
KAZAA that are keeping the link alive.
The question is: How long do I need to force a disconnect (system calm - I
beleive) in order to make sure that the system will create a checkpoint?

Oren


??"Mike M" > ??? ??????
...
> Oren,
>
> There can be many reasons for lack of regular automatic system created
> checkpoints including running programs such as seti@home, folding@home or
> other similar programs, or because a background application is fooling Win
> Me's state manager.exe into thinking that the system is not idle although
this
> is not in fact the case. Examples of the latter utility include v4 of
> MotherBoardMonitor (but not v5), Cacheman, The Cleaner (TCActive and
> TCMonitor) and Norton's System Doctor where users have reported use of the
> Disk Health sensor has prevented the creation of automatic checkpoints.
NAV7
> has also been reported as causing similar problems in certain
circumstances.
> Other users have reported similar behaviour due to their always on cable
or
> ADSL connection continually polling their HD and thus giving the
impression
> that the system is never idle.
>
> A significant number of users report that 3.x versions of Zone Alarm also
> prevent the creation of automatic checkpoints but this doesn't seem to
affect
> all ZA users (including myself). This problem seems though to have been
> fixed in the newer 4.x version of ZA Pro. Similar problems have been
> experienced by BlackIce users and other software firewalls have also been
> reported to cause some users similar problems.
>
> One user has reported that B's CLIP UDF packet writing software
> (http://www.bhacorp.com/products/clip/clip.html) prevented the creation of
> automatic checkpoints and another that they had experienced the same
problem
> with Roxio's DirectCD. Another user has also reported that CookieWall by
> AnalogX will prevent automatic checkpoints being made if its "Scan for
cookies
> every .... seconds" is set to a value less than 121 seconds (two minutes).
> --?
> Mike Maltby MS-MVP
>
>
>
> Oren Yulevitch > wrote:
>
> > I use WinMe.
> > Can anyone tell me why the system does not create new checkpoints?
> > I can make one manually.
> > I can restore.
> > I have about 2.5G free space (out of 19G) on my C drive (system disk)
> > I have also D+E (30G Free/40G and 21G free/40G)
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > What do I need to check/enable in order to make this work.
>

[Mike M]

> The question is: How long do I need to force a disconnect (system calm - I
> beleive) in order to make sure that the system will create a checkpoint?

I think it could be as little as 2 minutes 1 second but for safety would say
10 minutes.

Regards,
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP




Oren Yulevitch > wrote:

> Mike,
> Thank you for the detailed answer.
> Now comes the next question.
>
> From your list I identify only one item ADSL connection. My kids use ICQ
> and KAZAA that are keeping the link alive.
> The question is: How long do I need to force a disconnect (system calm - I
> beleive) in order to make sure that the system will create a checkpoint?