answer:I’m using Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 3 There’s your answer. All jokes aside though, it is likely that the restore points have been corrupted, next time you should make regular images of your system configuration with an external program… All i could suffest is a clean install, i’m not really familiar with how windows restores itself, but if the overall performance of the system is any indication you shouldn’t have trusted it to work to begin with. I know my reply hasn’t been of any help, by the way, but, really, that’s all i could come up with with this data. Have you installed anything in particular? used some program, had any issues with some program prior to windows fucking up? Anyway you should always keep the system and the data separated when running windows, you’ll never know when you’ll have to format and reinstall. Oh, a useful sufggestion: you can run a virus scan from a live linux distribution, that way you know it won’t be affected by any virus. It takes a little to prepare but it works, and it works well.