I've been using N32 in my tower (XP) and N32 & ESS7 in a couple of laptops (W7), all total for almost 10yrs. Installation and usage w/o issues to speak of. But now comes today. I'm at my Ma's installing ESS8 into her W7 tower and up comes this same Sys Restore issue being discussed. I'll try the fixes suggested, but the reason I need to use Sys Restore was after I installed ESS8 the internet connection was disabled forcing me to Sys Restore through Safe Mode to dump the ESS8 and it's effects.
I realized after writing this that it was a thread re W8 but hey, I guess your issues with ESS7&8 wasn't exclusive to W8
I will probably need to look for a thread re the internet issue but after recommending and bragging on ESET's products for the years I've used it, this is a bit frustrating! Being a known issue one would think ESET would had put out a fix by now or at least an easy (for dummies like myself) work around. But then ESET would be admitting a product negative and we couldn't have that, now can we?
Like I said I'll try what has been suggested, and thank you caring sorts for your efforts and offerings.