Comments on: How to turn off / Disable Windows XP – Vista System Restore

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Sun, 30 May 2010 06:01:59 +0000

Adriana:
How can I turn system restore on? I tried the cancel button, then the ok button, and nothing. It says the system restore has been turned off by group policy. Who is this group? Anybody help me….?thanks.

Hi, Did you get the computer from your company or is it a personal PC ?? Thanks..

By: Adriana

Adriana — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:58:18 +0000

How can I turn system restore on? I tried the cancel button, then the ok button, and nothing. It says the system restore has been turned off by group policy. Who is this group? Anybody help me….?thanks.

By: James

James — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:24:07 +0000

How can I force System Restore to turn off, it wont let me said it was changed in policy, yet there is no where to go into that and fix that either

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:26:06 +0000

@Confused

System restore is suppose to be enable by default, however in case of a virus infection and in process to clean your PC, you are in need to disable it…

Now let us see what system restore does actually ?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx

in short, system restore option creates an image of all working programs of OS, every time you make any change in program or in os, so if anything goes wrong, you can restore back to a previous restore point when every thing was working fine..

However in this process, it would also backup and create image of a virus.. So when you clean your system, its needed that you turn off the system restore option..

By: Confused

Confused — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:47:33 +0000

what are the risks of turning off system restore? when I go to do it, it warns me “all the existing restore points will be deleted, and no new ones will be created”
Will i loose all my programs then or what?.. :S

By: PRASEN

PRASEN — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:42:23 +0000

i use sony vaio whch has windows visa as o.s. i followed ur instuctions for system protection turn off bt it didnt help.plz help me 4 the same

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:36:22 +0000

I just recently got infected with a Trojan Virus called: “Trojan horse Generic10.VPD” It was discovered by AVG 8.0 and when I forced deleted it, the computer wouldn’t boot so I had to use Startup Recovery manager. Now when I got back into the Vista OS again, the same virus appeared again but on a different file and eventually just stopped a whole bunch of processes on my computer and made it freeze.

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:39:15 +0000

Hello Sir,

By default as you turn off the system restore, the Windows should delete all data stored in System Restore folder should be deleted.

How ever some time in rare cases it doesn’t happen, therefore I suggest you to use CCleaner, a free but really effective software to clean up system junk to free up HDD space.

Thank you

By: Zorn

Zorn — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:12:34 +0000

Question: If I turned off the System Restore function on my Windows ME computer, am I able to get rid of everything inside the folder? My HD is almost full, I don’t even use that function anymore, and its taking up 5 Gb of space.

By: Choto Cheeta

Choto Cheeta — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:30:43 +0000

Hello Jim,

If the system restore is turned off, then Lenovo / IBM system rescue wont work !!

This guide is for those who already have a major virus infection and wants to clean the PC…

For normal operation system restore is an useful feature to save you from any accidental deletion of programs or any settings !!

Thank you..