System restore disabled?

Question

Hi,system restore has been disabled on my computer for some reason...everything else works,task manager etc but system restore says it has been disabled by group policy.i have used ad-aware spybot and scanned with AVG but it still does not work.any help please?

No it is my own laptop and i cannot run the command you told my for group editing it says it doesnt exist

There is no policy tab in regedit for me :S

gpedit.msc doesnt work it says it doesnt exist

Answer 1

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_restore.htm

This might help though, though you could check what policy's are running if it is the policy's:

Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT and press Enter
Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ SystemRestore

In the right-pane:
Delete the value DisableConfig
Delete the value DisableSR
For Windows XP Professional, you can accomplish the above using Group Policy Editor as well.

Click Start, Run and type GPEDIT.MSC
Navigate to this path:
=> Computer Configuration
==> Administrative Templates
===> System
====> System Restore

Set Turn off System Restore to Not Configured
Set Turn off Configuration to Not Configured

Hope this helps,

Answer 2

Is this on a work computer? You shouldn't have a group policy if your are on your home PC. You can try going to Start > Run and type in gpedit.msc and enabling it through the Group Policy Editor.

Answer 3

You can get to system restore by going start help and support you should be able to get it going again through there.

Answer 4

you will have to set these settings your self .
help and support in start group.
in the seach, type,system restore.
you can also use index!
click the plus symbol or choose enable .if not there just click the sys. rest. in the list of items.