System Restore - turning off S/R monitoring for volume doesn't sti

[Richard]

I have Win XP SP3. I have laptop, and a docking station that has an external
USB hard drive attached. While docked, I will turn off the S/R monitoring
of the USB disk volume that attaches to the dock. I will then remove the
computer and use it elsewhere. When I return to the dock, monitoring is
again turned on for the USB drive. While disconnected, I do not connect to
another drive.

How do I turn off S/R monitoring for a drive and make the setting stick?

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Start here: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/drivedisable.html

However, one or more options/settings in an ever-growing number of
third-party applications may be disallowing the change(s) (upon reboot).
These include anti-spyware applications (e.g., Ad-aware's Ad-Watch, Spybot
Tea Timer, SpywareBlaster, SpySweeper, Spyware Doctor, CounterSpy,
WinPatrol, etc), anti-virus appliations & security suites (Norton, McAfee,
ESET/NOD32, Kasperky, Trend Micro, etc.), and third-party firewalls (e.g.,
Zone Alarm, etc.).

Note that temporarily disabling the application(s) and/or rebooting into
Safe Mode may not disable the system protections.