The is useful for restoring your PC back to older settings in case some application or settings start hampering its functioning. If you get the error, “ System Restore has been turned off by group policy. To turn on System Restore, contact your domain administrator “ while trying to access system restore then it could be possible that your firm’s IT department(if it’s your office workstation) has blocked it, or it got turned off automatically due to some reason. This article tells you two ways to enable system restore if you get the above error message when you try to access it. Method 1: Enable System Restore Configuration Interface through Group Policy Editor. You can enable system restore configuration by disabling Turn off Configuration and System restore policy. Click Start button, click Run and type gpedit.msc. Expand Computer Configuration and then expand Administrative Templates. Expand System, and then click System Restore. Double click on Turn off System Restore. On the Setting tab, select Disabled. Double-click Turn off Configuration, and then on the Setting tab, select Disabled. Exit the editor and reboot your PC. Method 2: Enable System Restore Configuration Interface throughthe Registry Editor Following are the steps to enable it via the registry. Note: Make sure that you backup your registry using File->Export before you attempt to make any changes. Press Start button. Type regedit and click OK. On the registry editor double click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE folder to expand it. Expand SOFTWARE folder. Expand Policies> Microsoft> Windows NT> SystemRestore. On a right panel right click on DisableConfog and DisableSR and select delete option from right hand menu. Exit the editor and reboot your PC. These two method are work well on home editions and professional versions of Windows XP and higher. After restarting your PC, Go to button and type System Restore in a search box (In Windows Vista). System Restore window will appear now. That was how you resolve System Restore disabled by group policy error in Windows. Use Microsoft System Restore to restore the system to an earlier time. Here's how to launch System Restore from a command prompt. It's not unusual to use System Restore to fix strange Windows XP system. You created a Restore Point. This is version 4.1 Build 5, the last version of System Restore Point Creator that is compatible with Windows XP. Any future versions of. Download Restore Point Creator (Windows XP).zip. After the system fully reboots, go back to the System Restore tab again and uncheck the “Disable Restore on all drives” box. If you are planning on doing a clean install of Windows. The point where you have to activate. Folder and the button will change to Activation Restore. Check this thread for System Restore answers. My system restore does not work for any date? If nothing helps making SR work, you'll have to disable it and reenable it to make it start creating new restore points so it works the next time you need it. The previous restore points will be deleted but they have most likely become useless up to this point. To disable SR: Control Panel > performance and maintenance > System > System Restore > put a checkmark on Disable System Restore. Restart the computer and remove the checkmark to enable System Restore. Another method on How to Repair Windows XP System Restore If none of the solutions helped make SR work so recovering the printer wasn't possible, you can download the Printer driver from the HP website. This solution is probably easier than recovering the printer through SR: Download the Printer Model driver > execute the downloaded.exe file to extract the driver files to a new folder > right click on the '.inf' file and select Install, next go to the Printers folder (Start Printers and Faxes). Click on Add new Printer > select Local Printer > Next > A list of one to a few compatible drivers will appear. If the printer model is in the list, select it and click next. The printer will be installed. And if the printer is not in the list, click on 'Have Disk' > click on Browse, and browse to the folder where you extracted the driver files, select the.inf file, and next click on Open. The printer will be installed. If you have trouble finding the correct driver, I can probably find it for you with the exact Printer Model posted here. Thankk you for your solution. The issues were multiple: The HP Install software I had saved on C: wouldn't run. It got a 'Setup Error.' Same with the Install software from the hP Website. It's a DeskJet 6840, not in the Windows printer list (in XP or 7), and guessing at other models from the list turned it into a monochrome printer. So I really didn't want to delete backup points. But I got lucky - I found the Install CD. It still got a 'Setup Error,' but somehow it got the printer going again, and in color. Now I can try to get SR working. Thanks again for the help. I had a similiar problem. No matter what date I clicked on, it wouldn't restore. The pc was running xp professional, and it was avg anti-virus business edition that was causing it. I disabled avg 'until restart'. And then ran the restore. Restore worked o.k. Just thought I might update this thread, just incase someone else with a similiar setup has the same problems. Disable any anti-virus software and then try the restore. All antivirus are nowhere close to 100% effectiveness, they need virus information (deffinition updates) to do anything about them. And viruses exist that can disable and control the antivirus. So, it would seem possible that a virus may have used the antivirus to prevent the execution of System Restore that would delete it. And as you disabled the antivirus, the virus was doomed. In any case that's a good contribution.
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