System Restore utility cannot restore to restore point

I am under Windows XP SP 3 and have a disconcerting problem.  (SR) system restore will not restore my system to an earlier time.  SR is activated and creates automatic restore points every day, and I can also create points of restoration on request.  But when I actually try to restore the system to one of these points, the RS utility is unable to do with the useless message that it was impossible to restore my PC to an earlier time and no changes to my PC.  I suspect that some interviews I've done recently is the culprit.  I downloaded and installed a maintenance of Uniblue software, including Registry Booster and Rescue Disk.  The first is an optimizer registry/cleaner and my PC doesn't seem to work faster as well.  The latter is a disk defragmentation tool, and when it runs, it displays the names of files and folders, as it reorganizes.  I noticed it was the defrag the System Volume Information folder, including RPxxxx files, which of course contain restore point information.  (It is my understanding that the System Volume Information folder is not available for normal Windows interface and how this tool is there to do for maintenance is a mystery to me.)  But since I have used these two tools, the RS utility has not completed a restoration successfully.  It doesn't matter if I try to restore to a prior restore point or after the time when the interview was made.  I can create a restore point and immediately try to restore it with negative results.  I uninstalled the software Uniblue, but that did not fix my problem.  How can I overcome this severe limitation and recover the critical capacity of system restore?  Thank you very much...

I've never seen Vista for more than a few minutes, but it is a fairly common problem with XP.  It is usually not a problem to Microsoft at all.

(You are in a group XP... Vista forums are here: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsvista)

Here is my copy/paste standard for an XP system with the problem described by capehaze13 above.  Maybe it will give you some ideas or to reflect:

Some tools AV 'protect' your system so that they will not allow a restore of the system work properly.

For example, if you use Norton/Symantec products, you will see a message like this:

Restoration incomplete. Your computer cannot be restored...

It is also a popular Symantec problem (well, I'll be polite and call an "undocumented feature"...), they wrote an article about it:

http://Service1.Symantec.com/support/sharedtech.nsf/pfdocs/2005113009323013

Depending on what you use for malware protection, you will maybe disable the product temporarily, make the system restore and then turn on the product.

Sometimes, you will need boot mode safe, and while that your protection programs do not, then do the system restore.  Microsoft refers to this in some of their writings too and it works sometimes favorably (do the system restore in Mode safe that is).

Give these ideas some consideration if they apply to you.

Sometimes malicious will afflict your system restore to prevent you to find and remove malware.  It would much rather you trick into thinking that you need to repair or reinstall your XP when it is not necessary.

No matter what you use, I do so and then only begin to solve any problems:

Download, install, update and do a full scan with these free malware detection programs can solve any problems:

Malwarebytes (MMFA): http://malwarebytes.org/

SUPERAntiSpyware: (SAS): http://www.superantispyware.com/

It can be uninstalled later if you wish.

The scans by operating clean, reboot, test and we can fix any other issues.

Do not guess what the problem might be - understand and resolve it. I need YOUR voice and the points for helpful answers and propose responses. I'm saving for a pony!

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