"Have a read here, a great system restore troubleshooting guide"
Thanks, Hazelnut, for that link. . .have turned off system restore on my recovery partition, only one year late, who knew?
Better late than never Login!!
I have a shredder type program which warns me if I try to shred a folder with any system type files in it, such as .ini, .exe, .dll, etc. It says that since these files are backed up in system restore, it will shut off system restore so that they may be deleted. So of course all the restore points disappear.
Could this be in any way related to CCleaner's behavior?