Okay, you have told us how to delete and shut off System Restore....NOW, how
do you TURN IT BACK ON, especially for one who had his "shut off" somehow in
the last few days. My GROUP POLICY no longer "allows" me to create restore
points. Is that one of the new and improved features of Vista? Why does
this seem like a beta test? Thanks!
"Bert Kinney" wrote:
Quote:
> Hi JPhilo,
>
> Use Disk Clean-up to remove all but the most recent Restore Points and
> Shadow Copies.
>
> Using Disk Clean-up in Windows Vista:
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskcleanupv.html
>
> Now disable System Restore and then enable it. This will remove all existing
> restore points.
>
> How to disable System Restore in Windows Vista:
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/disablesrv.html
>
> Do not set System Restore to monitor any drives other than the one Windows
> is installed on.
>
> Regards,
> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
> http://bertk.mvps.org
> Member: http://dts-l.org
>
>
> JPhilo wrote: Quote:
> > My new Vista Business Dell laptop is just a week old but already I'm
> > having serious OS issues. The entire System Restore system seems to be
> > hung up and not functioning. For example, if I go to the System
> > Protection tab in System Properties, in the 'Available Disks' box it
> > just says "Searching..." and never comes out of that. The System Restore
> > and Create... (restore point) buttons are greyed out. There definitely
> > should be a number of restore points already, but none are accessible.
> >
> > This problem also appears to be causing Windows Update to hang.
> > Whenever it tries to install updates it gets to the point where it says
> > 'creating restore point...' and then it just hangs there forever.
> >
> > So I think I need to find some way to manually reset or restart the
> > entire System Restore system. I've searched this and some other forums
> > but haven't found anyone in a similar situation. Can someone please
> > help?
> >
> >
>