Windows Me Doesn't Work for Me Using BugNet to Restore the Windows Me System Restore Function D. E. Levine
BugNet posted a fix for this Windows Me Systems Restore problem on February 21, 2001. You can read about it at BugNet or follow the tutorial below.
Step 1. Make a backup of the Registry before making any changes to it.
Step 2. Exit the Registry Editor
Step 3. The Registry tracks software and hardware installations meaning that new keys can be merged into the Registry by double-clicking on a .REG text file.
Step 4. Contents of the text file can be determined from the File Data report McAfee creates during the QuickClean process. The key is identified as:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\.htc
Step 5. Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q275646 says the value of this key should be:
"Content Type"="text/x-component".
Step 6. Create a "registry script by adding a pair of brackets and a regedit version number:
REGEDIT4
{HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\.htc}
"Content Type"="text/x-component"
Step 7. Copy and paste the three line script into Notepad or any other text editor. You must put a Hard Return after the third line (for a total of four lines).
Step 8. Save the file in plain text format with a filename that ends in .REG.
Step 9. Open My Computer or Windows Explorer and double click on the file. When the dialogue box comes up asking if you are "sure you want to add the information to the registry", click Yes.
Step 10. If the file is in the proper format Regedit will run in the background and merge the key into the registry system. System Restore can then display its restore points.
