Probably you have done a System Restore or System Recovery or Image Backup in Windows 7 or Vista or XP. If everything went well, you will greet with a successful message, after the recovery is complete.

Voila, you are very happy that System Restore is complete. The reasons behind why you have done a System Restore is a long list. Some of the causes could be Windows errors, booting problems, or the dreaded virus-malware-spyware problem.

Whatever the problem is, you might have recovered your system configuration to a working state, if all goes well. Well, All is not well. I’ll let you know my case.

I recently did a system restore as my wired networking connection failed and internet was not working. Everything went according to plan. But after re-booting, I got this small notice box or pop-up which displayed “Recovery completed. Do you want to restore your user files” message. The

text below the headline message said, “If you created a user file backup before recovering your computer, you can restore those files now.”.

Well this is useful, if you have created some backup of your user files, documents etc before doing a system restore. All the user files and settings restore to an earlier timing once you do a System Restore in Windows.  So clicking “Restore my files” button will give you the chance to get a backup of your user files, backed up using a back up device.

But this annoying pop-up will keep displaying even after you restore your files or click Cancel on each boot.

The Solution

There is a file called “Recovery.txt” created in your Windows system partition. Just re-name it or drop it. This will stop this irritating message on your every boot.

I’m not sure of the consequences of deleting “Recovery.txt”. If anybody has a problem after deleting it please let me know in the comments.

Well I found the solution to this problem in this technet article.  The user “Blazing AceZ” found this solution.

Long story short, in the hidden WINRe or recovery sector of the old HD I found a 0KB file called Recovery.txt, I renamed this and this appeared to solve the problem, the nag message no longer appears on boot up.

Sometimes the problem could be due to  a different reason. If you see your task scheduler list, sometimes there’ll be a task named “AfterRecovery”.  To be doubly sure, remove that task so that your solution works out.

Finally, I just want to end this article with a note saying that somehow my “Backup and Restore” failed with this error “0×80070002”. I’m not sure whether the removal of “Recovery.txt”has anything to do with it. I hope this simple solution removes your nag screen without any side-effects. Please comment on how you solved the pop-up error “Recovery completed. Do you want to restore your user files” in the disqus comment section.

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