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Old January 10th 05, 07:55 PM
Noel Paton
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Glad we were able to help, Peter
BTW - you may find it a good idea to remove the rest of the Norton cr%p from
your PC - the normal uninstall leaves one heck of a lot of it behind! - use
teh RNAV2003 tools from here for this purpose (and then a manual cleanup is
still a good idea if you have the knowledge and confidence!)
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...212100807?Open

Good Luck!

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"Peter David" wrote in message
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Thanks so much, Noel. No WINIT file found on the computer, but your
suggestion to run SCANREG /FIX worked, and I now have my first Restore Point
since I don't know when. Thanks to all of you who post solutions to all
kinds of problems here, and I will continue to learn from your experience!

peter

"Peter David" wrote in message
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Thanks for the replies. I recently removed Norton AV and AntiSpam, because
they were causing system resource problems. However I was still unable to
create a restore point. I'll try your suggestion re the WININIT file.

peter

"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Alan/Peter

the '290700 bug' doesn't prevent the creation of Restore points - merely
renders those that are present un-restorable!


This problem, OTOH, is well-known - and often caused by Norton (no
surprise
there then?) - try this....

Do a Search for the file WININIT.INI - if you find it, then rename it to
WININIT.JNK, and reboot - your problem should be gone.

If you don't find it, then try this - Start|Run - enter SCANREG /FIX
into
the dialog box, and click OK - windows will reboot - see if that fixes it.


HTH


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"Alan Edwards" wrote in message
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Have you tried this?

Checkpoints that you create after September 8, 2001 do not restore
your computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;290700

...Alan

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In microsoft.public.windowsme.general, "Peter David"
wrote:

There are no restore points that I can roll back to. I have looked
through
all the ME Help files to find out how to create a restore point, and
followed all the suggestions. I have tried disabling System Restore,
rebooting, then re-enabling SR, rebooting, and I still get the same
message when I try to create a restore point: "cannot create restore
point, reboot computer, then try again."