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Usual cause of system restore on laptop fail to restore

altrish

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Feb 27, 2013
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Hi i have my daughters laptop toshiba l300 running windows 7 when it starts the message( vajpn is compressed press cntr-alt-del) upon doing so it reboots and then comes back with the same message over and over again,have run repair disc but still comes up with same message,any help would be appreciated.
 
This link may help: http://www.proposedsolution.com/solutions/windows-7-filename-is-compressed-press-ctrl-alt-del-to-restart/
It gives detailed instructions on how to decompress files using the Windows System Recovery menu.