How to restore the system without any software?

I thought that the system will create the restoring points for every installation or removal of software / update , automatically.That's why I removed the spy ware terminator few days back , which is bundled with the system restoring option.Now I am in the need of restoring my system to some other date as my system starts to malfunction..As from your response, it seems that restoring option may not work properly, as I have not created any restore point so far..At least hereafter I need to install some other software for this purpose.Thanks for your response to this discussion.

Hi wordlinx, from your response in box 5 I hope you got your system restored. You may have seen it that, but still I wanted to add that there are system checkpoints too that are created automatically by XP in fixed intervals. :)

After reading the responses, I made a search in the net for more details. As you have mentioned, the system itself is creating many check points in specific interval and also when we install or remove some of the software from our system.Also it seems ,a check point is created before the start of update process of any of the installed software in our system.But unfortunately, all the changes can not be reverted again if the time span is more,it seems. We can get back the system, if we try to restore it withing 10 days. After that , we used to get some dll file missing error and only the desktop icons are available for some of the applications and they are not able to be opened or worked.Thanks for the response and the information.

My system is not working well as I tried to remove of the third party tool bar from the program files of the C drive. As I had no option for proper removal for that particular tool bar, I tried to remove it from the C drive. I am not able to remove all the files entirely and also I am not able to install it again.Because of this, a small pop up window of the tool bar is always getting displayed whenever I start the system which is annoying me too much.As I don't have any software for restoring the system, I have not created any restoring point.Also, Also I installed and removed many browsers in the two days..Because of this, my system is showing many errors..That's I wanted to restore my system back to some other date..Thanks for yore response.

Wordlinx, you have to delete your browser and install a new browser. If you use firefox remove it from C, then you can install a new firefox. But be sure you have a spare browser which you can download. I suggest you use Firefox 3.5.5 download it from mozilla.com