Turn off norton tamper protection under settings. Make sure you turn it back on after its restored.  
Hi: I have a Dell Dimension 4600, 3.25 GIGS RAM (as recognized by Windows XP-SP3) CPU = 2.4 GHz2 HD's: C: drive = total 465 Gb's, remaining = 3.3 GB'sF: drive = Total 189, remaining = 21 Gb's) Problem:System Restore will not, while in Windows XP, restore to any  earlier time, in spite of the following: 1) Antiviral Scan with Norton AV (2010) - negative findings2) Scan with Windows Defener & Microsoft's Malicious Software  Removal Tool v3.11 - negative findings.3) Webroot's Spy Sweeper - negative findings 4) Turning off System Restore, rebooting, then re-booting and turning on System restore again, choosing a restore point and trying again to restore to earlier point - Again no success 5) Copying the rstrui.exe file from the i386 folder to the   Windows system32\restore file (after renaming the original   rstrui.exe file, and again trying system restore to a    previous time--no success. The ONLY method that has worked is using Safe Mode. Question: Is this the only way, from now on, to use System Restore?Doesn't the need for using Safe Mode point to somethingwrong (corruption?) with the OS & files, etc, and can this be corrected other than by Windows In-Place repair or clean re-install?? Thanks for any help.
System Restore Mal-Function