What am I missing?

[poatt]

Have PC. Onlyprofile on it is administrator.Me.
What am I missing on System Restore. There are partitions that I do not
need,or want, for System restore to monitor.
But "Drive Settings" in 'System Properties/System Restore' the choices are
greyed out. ie; Turn off System Restore(disable by Group Policy) and Turn off
System restore on this drive in Drive Settings. I have checked in services in
administratyive tools. Botj System restore and RPC and started and on auto.
Maybe one could show me what I'm missing. I'm getting too old to remember
this stuff.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Start here, maybe? => http://bertk.mvps.org/html/drivedisable.html

 

[glee]

Have PC. Onlyprofile on it is administrator.Me.
What am I missing on System Restore. There are partitions that I do
not
need,or want, for System restore to monitor.
But "Drive Settings" in 'System Properties/System Restore' the choices
are
greyed out. ie; Turn off System Restore(disable by Group Policy) and
Turn off
System restore on this drive in Drive Settings. I have checked in
services in
administratyive tools. Botj System restore and RPC and started and on
auto.
Maybe one could show me what I'm missing. I'm getting too old to
remember
this stuff.

Your System Restore settings have been disabled by Group Policy or by a
Registry Edit.
If you have XP Pro, you can use the Group Policy Editor to change this.
If you have XP Home, you will have to manually edit the Registry, or use
a .reg file to do it for you.

This article tells you how to disable the settings...you need to enable
them instead (in method 3, setting it to 0 instead of 1):

How to Disable the System Restore Configuration User Interface
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=283073