How to open system restore ('rstrui.exe') using C#

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Hello.
Can somebody please tell me a code to open up System Restore in Windows.
Thank you in advance.

What I have tried:

I have tried Process.Start("C:\Windows\System32\rstrui.exe") and it didn't work. That is the exact location of the file. I also tried

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System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Environment.SystemDirectory + "\rstrui.exe") and System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Environment.SystemDirectory + "\restore\rstrui.exe")..

They did not work either.

Note: i have checked in system32 directory and rstrui.exe exist in it.when i open it manually then it is open successfully

Posted 4-Dec-16 22:50pm

mKhemraj

Updated 5-Dec-16 0:00am

Richard MacCutchan

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dan!sh 5-Dec-16 5:04am

What is the error you are getting?

mKhemraj 5-Dec-16 5:11am

the system cannot find the file specified

Richard MacCutchan 5-Dec-16 5:07am

What does "did not work" mean?

mKhemraj 5-Dec-16 5:11am

getting error - the system cannot find the file specified

Richard MacCutchan 5-Dec-16 5:14am

~~Then your path is wrong, or you have a permissions problem.~~
Your string contains an unescaped backslash, which makes the two characters \r act as a carriage return. Use the @ prefix or double backslash in the string.

mKhemraj 5-Dec-16 5:23am

same code working fine in windows7 32bit but in windows8 64 and windows10 64 not worked.

Richard MacCutchan 5-Dec-16 5:52am

It is no good saying things like "not worked"; we have no idea what that is supposed to mean. Edit your question, show the code that is not working and give proper details of the failure.

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Solution 1

There are a couple of problems here: Windows and Windows\System32 are system folders, so access to them is not guaranteed - and if you can't access the folder, you can't access the application. Start by checking the permissions that the user your app will run as has to access the folders.

Secondly, what you want to do is rather strange: restoring your system from within a application is an odd way to behave.

Though if I try it:

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string path = Path.Combine(Environment.SystemDirectory, "rstrui.exe");
Process.Start(path);

It works for me - and I press Cancel immediately! :laugh:

Posted 4-Dec-16 23:24pm

OriginalGriff

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mKhemraj 5-Dec-16 5:32am

thanks OriginalGriff, but i have checked same.. its not working..

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*dan!sh* · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-05T00:00:00

Solution 2

So, you have to make sure few things are as follows here:

1. You build configuration is AnyCPU.
2. You are running VS as administrator.
3. You are using path to the file as c:\windows\sysnative\rstrui.exe on 64-bit machines. (File System Redirector (Windows)[^])

Posted 5-Dec-16 0:00am

dan!sh

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mKhemraj 5-Dec-16 6:02am

thank you very much.. its working fine..