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
...
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."