Stmgr

Mike M1 · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4241

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Mike M1 · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4241

> Thanks for all your patience and help.

I'm not sure though for how much longer as I'm beginning to somewhat
despair of helping you.

First, of course I know you recovered stmgr.exe since it was I who told
you how to do that. What I hadn't appreciated was that you didn't do this
until after you had jumped into trying to resolve the wintrust error
problem and renamed the catroot folder.

> And the Restore window would not let me create a restore point.

How helpful. <g> Since I can't see your screen from here how about
posting details of the actual error message?

I'm guessing though that this and the missing catroot folder problem is
simply that you no longer have the state manager running when you boot
your system. Other than deleting stmgr.exe what exactly did you do? For
example did you remove or uncheck the *StateMgr entry in MSConfig |
Startup? Did you perhaps also delete the file statemgr.exe?
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spanky <spanky RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I recovered Stmgr because i was trying to put the computer back into
> the setup before Dell had me change it. I thought that was what i
> was supposed to do so we could try your solutions. Nevertheless, I
> can't see a new CATROOT folder that was created so I guess I'm
> screwed. And the Restore window would not let me create a restore
> point.
>
> Anyway,
>
> Thanks for all your patience and help.

spanky · External Since: Jul 07, 2005 Posts: 17

Mike,

I got it working!! I changed all files & folders back as they were
originally when the problem started. Rebboted, and got the error msg. Then
went back and changed Catroot to Catrootold and rebooted again. Then it
created the new Catroot as you said it should. Then I checked "do not load
Restore" box..rebooted. Then I unchecked it and rebooted and it created a set
point and now works.

Thanks again!

"Mike M" wrote:

> > Thanks for all your patience and help.
>
> I'm not sure though for how much longer as I'm beginning to somewhat
> despair of helping you.
>
> First, of course I know you recovered stmgr.exe since it was I who told
> you how to do that. What I hadn't appreciated was that you didn't do this
> until after you had jumped into trying to resolve the wintrust error
> problem and renamed the catroot folder.
>
> > And the Restore window would not let me create a restore point.
>
> How helpful. <g> Since I can't see your screen from here how about
> posting details of the actual error message?
>
> I'm guessing though that this and the missing catroot folder problem is
> simply that you no longer have the state manager running when you boot
> your system. Other than deleting stmgr.exe what exactly did you do? For
> example did you remove or uncheck the *StateMgr entry in MSConfig |
> Startup? Did you perhaps also delete the file statemgr.exe?
> --
> Mike Maltby
> mike.maltby.TakeThisOut@gmail.com
>
>
> spanky <spanky.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > I recovered Stmgr because i was trying to put the computer back into
> > the setup before Dell had me change it. I thought that was what i
> > was supposed to do so we could try your solutions. Nevertheless, I
> > can't see a new CATROOT folder that was created so I guess I'm
> > screwed. And the Restore window would not let me create a restore
> > point.
> >
> > Anyway,
> >
> > Thanks for all your patience and help.
>
>

Mike M1 · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4241

Great and thanks for the feedback and well done for sticking at it.

I think the initial problems you had when following my "script" were due
to the state manager not being installed/running at the time.

Again, well done.
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Mike Maltby
MS-MVP Windows
mike.maltby DeleteThis @gmail.com

spanky <spanky DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I got it working!! I changed all files & folders back as they were
> originally when the problem started. Rebboted, and got the error
> msg. Then went back and changed Catroot to Catrootold and rebooted
> again. Then it created the new Catroot as you said it should. Then
> I checked "do not load Restore" box..rebooted. Then I unchecked it
> and rebooted and it created a set point and now works.
>
> Thanks again!