Jill,
The message details you wanted are these:
System Restore failed due to an unspecified error. Transaction support
within the specific file system resource manager is not started or was
shutdown due to an error (0x80071A91).
There was some other verbiage, but this is the meat of the error report.
This is not the same verbiage I got before, because I probably changed the
status of a service or something in the interim. I would have to remove and
reinstall Vista to put it back to where it was. I'm will to do that, if you
say so. That was what I would have done back in the days before Microsoft
started counting the number of times you reloaded Windows. It was real fun
back then. Feeding thirty for forty disks into the A: drive to get Windows
back up. What fun!
"Jill Zoeller [MSFT]" <jillz@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just wanted to make sure that your computer isn't part of a domain where
>System Restore is disabled via group policy. :-)
>
> OK, can you give me the exact wording of the error you get about the power
> interruption? Is there also an error code? Are you connected to a UPS
> (uninterruptible power supply) by chance?
>
> Finally, here is the registry location of the System Restore group policy
> setting. Can you check whether this key is present? (Also, if you need
> instructions on accessing the regsitry, let me know).
>
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\SystemRestore\DisableSR
>
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