Microsoft's System Restore is very unreliable. It's just dumb luck that it
worked for you. Consider getting a disk imaging application and do the
disk
image backup every day. One of the best programs is Acronis True
Image,
I've been using it for years. The way it works, when you get into a
problem, it wipes out (formats) the whole disk (or selected partitions),
including your operating system, and then restores everything from the
backup image.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
"ozzyapeman"
<zoopfree@xxxxxxxxcom>
wrote in
news:gjlt6u+ll25@eGroups.com:
> The only thing that ultimately worked was doing a *Windows
System
> Restore* to 30 days ago. AB finally worked normally like it
used to.
>
> I guess the veterans on this board might have done
the restore instead
> of all the crap I tried. But, I am almost ashamed
to say, I never even
> knew Windows had a system restore function. Or
maybe I knew at one
> time, but forgot it was even there. In any case,
that's the way to
> solve any mysterious AB slowdowns.