System restore problems

This morning .. . .went to computer woke it up fine
then error messages in the bottom left hand corner saying that this file and that file were corrupted - this was the yellow trianage message.
Then that the "all users file" in documents and settings was corrupt.
So did a system restore to one day last week - when i knew all was well. This was successful but when the thing started again lots of software files were missing, internet dial up connection, and the all programs menu was one fifth the size it was before - lots of things gone like under:
all programs
accessories
system tools - gone
I then tried to reserve the system restore and this did not work - reported that it had failed. So tried to do a system restore as I left to yesterday. Otherwise what do i do?
The file with all your software is still on there but it's reinstalling the dial up connection etc.
All advice appreciated

Hi
As far as I know the system restore tool roll back the OS to the early point and all the files.
If you have installed files or have changed some settings after the restore point, all this things will be removed after using the system restore tool.
A similar issue was happened to me. I have saved a lot of files on second partition and after using the system restore tool all these files and data which was created after restore point was removed.
There is nothing to do
If you use the tool from time to time you should create more restore points.

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