William, it sounds like you've got a number of problems going on here. I
could collect some logs from you and ask the System Restore team for
troubleshooting advice, but this could take some time. If doing a clean
install is an option, you might want to consider this. I've seen a couple
customers report some really obscure errors like this and reinstalling fixed
the problem for them. This of course wouldn't help us find the root cause,
but it sounds like you've done some uninstalling of AV tools and the like
and I wonder if your computer is just in an unstable state right now.
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"William Beard" <wabeard6596@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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
> news:u0RCgogdHHA.4984@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>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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