I did something a little scary today – I used System Restore on my Vista Tablet.

Del.icio.us have created proper button for IE (rather than using favourites) so I thought I’d try it out.

Click on download, click on install, click on ‘I accept’ (or something like that) and the install starts, the progress bar moves across the screen and then it stalls, and stalls, and stalls.

After a good long while I check the processes in the Task Manager and IE is no longer responding, but nicely using up 100% of the CPU. I realise that this is never going to finish so I kill the install, but IE is still not responding and is still running at 100%, so I kill IE too .

Unfortunately when I restart IE it hangs, I’m now getting a bit annoyed with myself for having to try something new all the time .

Restart Vista – no effect .

Remove the del.icio.us application via the control panel – no effect .

Restarting Vista again – still had no effect .

My options are no looking very limited. So it’s off to try out the scary option to resolve the problem – System Restore.

I’ve used System Restore a few times on XP devices and had mixed results. In one instance the device had to be rebuilt because it way just not the same again. So I was a bit wary of using System Restore on Beta software.

Undertaking a System Restore on Vista is very similar to the way it’s done on XP. You select your restore point based on date, Vista restores the data and then reboots.

Well it’s come back and everything seems to be fine, and IE is now working again .

(The picture isn’t meant to imply that I felt like I was going down a stream without a paddle, but I suppose it’s appropriate )

Tags: Vista, System Restore, IE