System Restore is turned off by group policy

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John Gregory

I apologize for the re-post, but I never got an answer….

When I try to run system restore to create a restore point, it says that
"system restore has been turned off by group policy".

The computer is a company computer - most likely in a workgroup. However I
do have full administrative rights to the computer. IBM T-60, Windows XP,
SP2.

How do I turn it back on? I looked in the group policy editor, but could
not find a place to turn it back on.

Alternatively, is there a manual way to set a restore point? (as in the
early windows days of copying the registry file?)

Any ideas?

The problem is that our IT department announced that they do not support
operating system or installed program backups. My computer is a laptop, that
is loaded with special software and heavily configured for these
applications. Our IT departments response to any real problem is to re-image
the machine. Based upon this and lack of support, I think the ability to
back up the system is important.

Our IT group is very uncooperative on this issue and is currently at odds
against management for other "non-supported" issues which management thinks
are important. People like me (low on the food chain) are left with no
alternatives than to fend for ourselves.
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

John Gregory said:
I apologize for the re-post, but I never got an answer..

When I try to run system restore to create a restore point, it says
that "system restore has been turned off by group policy".

The computer is a company computer - most likely in a workgroup.
However I do have full administrative rights to the computer. IBM
T-60, Windows XP, SP2.

How do I turn it back on? I looked in the group policy editor, but
could not find a place to turn it back on.

Alternatively, is there a manual way to set a restore point? (as in
the early windows days of copying the registry file?)

Any ideas?


The problem is that our IT department announced that they do not
support operating system or installed program backups. My computer
is a laptop, that is loaded with special software and heavily
configured for these applications. Our IT departments response to
any real problem is to re-image the machine. Based upon this and
lack of support, I think the ability to back up the system is
important.

Our IT group is very uncooperative on this issue and is currently at
odds against management for other "non-supported" issues which
management thinks are important. People like me (low on the food
chain) are left with no alternatives than to fend for ourselves.
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Hi - this isn't really a technical issue, alas. You should be speaking to
your boss about this. Do not attempt to circumvent your IT department's
setup or policies (your admin rights won't let you do this anyway). If you
have tech support needs which they are not meeting, you need to take it up
with management (both yours and theirs). Get everything in writing, and
don't f__k with the computer in any way.

System restore should be turned on on all computers, if you ask me.....but
it has nothing to do with the concept of backups, really, nor is it my
business :)
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

You can Export the registry. Export is the command to make a copy of the
registry that can be later restored.

You can also do it by backing up the system state with backup.exe (in the
Accessories/System Tools folder on XP Pro) as long a GP isn't blocking it.

You can manually set a system restore point with System Restore (also in the
Accessories/System Tools folder) as long as GP is not blocking that.
 
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John Gregory

Thank you for your advice, I think that the backup feature will work for now.

I am addressing this with our IT group, however they are busy fighting
bigger battles at this time.
 
J

John Gregory

I tried the registry edit, and was able to open the System Properties dialog,
and the system restore tab.

The fix works! Thank you very much
 

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