I've had this happen. As I recall, and you can Google it, the only solution was to disable system restore, thus erasing all restore points, restart and enable system restore. Vanessa At 11:22 AM 12/5/2011, you wrote: >In a message dated 12/5/2011 9:45:19 AM Central Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > > > Why did you want to restore to nine years back, even if it were possible > > > >Sorry about typo; date was 3 Dec 2011.