System Restore takes slightly more than 2 minutes to open

[TOF]

Sorry to call up an old thread but I have a problem on both Win 8.1 Pro 64 bit machines. When my intent is to go to a system restore point, from System Properties and then click on System Restore it takes slightly more than 2 minutes for the Restore dialog window to open. This is from the Desktop which I use almost exclusively.

This is an update from Windows 8, which behaved the same, and has had a repair install to see if that would help. It didn't. I have tried your Shadow copy entries mentioned earlier but with no improvement. I have resorted to a third party program "RestorePointCreator.exe" Which works quickly like Win 7 does.

My dual booted Win 7 Pro opens almost by the time my finger releases the mouse button

I appreciate any help offered on my problem and thanks in advance.

 

[Brink]

Hello TOF, and welcome to Eight Forums.

Yeah, it shouldn't take that long to open by default.

If you have hard drives to turn off after X amount of minutes being idle, then it make take about 30 seconds or so for that to open while you wait on the hard drives to spin back up.

What drives do you have system protection turned on for?

 

[TOF]

Hello TOF, and welcome to Eight Forums.

Yeah, it shouldn't take that long to open by default.

If you have hard drives to turn off after X amount of minutes being idle, then it make take about 30 seconds or so for that to open while you wait on the hard drives to spin back up.

What drives do you have system protection turned on for?

Only the C: system partition in each machine. The HDs don't turn off during normal use. I am hoping to avoid a fresh install, fingers crossed.

 

[Brink]

You could try running a sfc /scannow command to see if it finds any corrupted or modified system files that it can repair that may be at fault.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/3047-sfc-scannow-command-run-windows-8-a.html

 

[TOF]

You could try running a sfc /scannow command to see if it finds any corrupted or modified system files that it can repair that may be at fault.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/3047-sfc-scannow-command-run-windows-8-a.html

Thanks Brink,
I have run SFC /SCANNOW again and no integrity problems were found. I then initiated the System Restore and it has just now come up after 2+ minutes so this is a puzzle.

If this can't be solved I'll do a wipe and clean install on one machine to see if that helps.

I do appreciate all suggestions.

 

[MasterChief]

My dual booted Win 7 Pro opens almost by the time my finger releases the mouse button

Dual boot is messing it all up. 7 is overwriting the shadow copies, or "controlling" it, as you will. So that's why 7 works ok and not 8.

I think there was a fix developed and propagated years ago, but I don't pay any attention since I never use SR.

This may be related somewhat: System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete

 

[Brink]

That would be my guess as well.

Using the tutorial posted above, make sure that you have it set so that each OS is set to not see the other one, and that you don't have system protection turned on in one OS for the other OS's drive in each OS.

 

[TOF]

New Install - Still 2+ Minutes

Thanks Master Chief and Brink,

I have applied the tutorial above to both OSes and rebooted a couple of times about the only result I see now is Win 7 is a trifle slower and 8.1 is still the lazy one.

I appreciate your assistance and expertise but since the third party app works like a champ I'll just use it for now. I'm planning to do a fresh install on one machine (have a good image from yesterday) so if it stays the same I can restore the image quickly. I'll update the thread with my results.

Thanks again.

Update:

I did a complete New install of 8.1 this morning, without a Win7 drive letter and tried the System Protection routine again after a couple of boots and a new Restore Point. Result still same 2+ minutes. I would think that this setup should have ruled out the use of Win 7 Shadow Copies as the culprit for slow performance. I have three SATA disks on this particular machine with the new install but the delayed action manifested itself when only two (totaling 1.6 GB) were installed.

I'll continue this experiment for a few more hours and then restore the image if no improvements are found.

Thanks for listening!

 

[MasterChief]

You're welcome. You could try deleting all restore points so that it has a fresh start, and see how it reacts then, if you're up to it.