Yes it's SP2, but that doesn't matter at all... there was one guy in this thread with same issue, and he is still on SP1. I run SP2 on my PC and no problems at all...
Strange that couldn't be any more strange... I was thinking what was the difference between my wife's system and all other's systems (everyone that posted in here)...
I came up with firewalls... don't know if that has anything to do with this issue or not, but I tried... and it helped, don't know why and don't know how, but it helped. Her system is cured right now. I tried to turn ON and OFF system restore about 20 times, without any problems... no matter do I click on APPLY or on OK after setting it...
Eddy has ZoneAlarm, Bob has ZoneAlarm, Technical is on Agnitum Outpost, my own system is on ZoneAlarm right now... none of these systems has System Restore problems, so I tried just to be sure. I still don't know if that has anything to do with this issue, but still...
My wife has Sygate 5.6 Personal Firewall. That was the only major difference... I tried to turn on System Restore again, while Sygate was still running. System freezes immediately... I rebooted, logged into Windows, completely turned off Sygate firewall, but I left avast! running. Didn't even turn off some of those providers. All of them were running. Guess what ? I tried to turn ON the System Restore, and it worked immediately... I tried to turn it OFF, worked like a charm... OK, let's try something else now... I turned Sygate firewall back ON, rebooted my wife's PC, logged back in Windows, turned ON System Restore without any single problem... I did it like 10 times by now and no problems at all...
Now, can someone tell me what was that all about ?
However, she is so happy now, even she doesn't really understand what's System Restore used for...
But, she saw me loosing my nerves about this issue, believe me guys, it ate me alive, so she was so unhappy when she saw me wrecking my nerves... Now, she is a happy girl again...