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Recently I had a huge problem with my registry. The problem has been fixed at this point, but applying a fix and understanding a fix are two very different things.

OS: Vista Ultimate
Hardware: Dell M1330, 4GB (3.5GB) Ram, 120GB Free space

So what happened:

• I started getting odd registry errors after installing new software.
• Adobe Acrobat 8.1.1 tried to reinstall every time I right clicked on an icon.
• When I tried to let it finish it told me that there was a problem with a specific registry key.
• I tried to fix it but was denied because I didn't have sufficient privileges.
• Found out that there were no assigned owners or permissions to several Adobe registry keys. So it was impossible to edit the keys, and therefore I could not fix the installation issue.

At this point I tried a lot of things, but here is what worked:

1. I rebooted the machine
2. I opened a command line as an administrator
3. I typed the following and hit enter:
   
   Code:
   fsutil resource setautoreset true C:\
4. I added owners and permissions to the registry keys
5. I then rebooted

And it worked. Well... mostly. I had to do it again at another point for another part of the program, but it worked again.

So now that the problem is fixed, I would like to know how it was fixed by that command. What happened when I pressed enter?

Microsoft's Technical Reference for Vista is not completed - Link
Microsoft Technet Server 2008 documentation has FSUTIL, but not the resource parameter - Link
Microsoft Technet older Server documentation does not mention the resource parameter - Link

If you were to do a search on Microsoft's website, you would see this command used as a solution, but no explanation of what it does.

I'm very interested in this one.

Fsutil

Creates a Secondary Transactional Resource Manager, starts or stops a Transactional Resource Manager, or displays information about a Transactional Resource Manager and modifies the following behavior:

-Whether a default Transactional Resource Manager will clean its transactional metadata at the next mount

-The specified Transactional Resource Manager to prefer consistency over availability

-The specified Transaction Resource Manager to prefer availability over consistency

-The characteristics of a running Transactional Resource Manager

-Specifies whether a default Transactional Resource Manager will clean the transactional metadata on the next mount.


Setautoreset

-Set the setautoreset parameter to true to specify that the Transaction Resource Manager will clean the transactional metadata on the next mount, by default.

-Set the setautoreset parameter to false to specify that the Transaction Resource Manager will not clean the transactional metadata on the next mount, by default.