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Backup Status and Configuration - Enable or Disable
How to Enable or Disable Backup Status and Configuration in Vista
Published by Brink
06-23-2008

How to Enable or Disable Backup Status and Configuration in Vista

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  This will show you how to enable or disable Backup Status and Configuration for all users on the computer. This for the Back up Files, Restore Files, and Complete PC Backup applications and showing backup status.
NOTE
  The Complete PC Backup feature is only available for the Vista Enterprise, Ultimate, and Business editions. It is available for the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions. The Back Up Files feature is available in all Vista editions though.
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METHOD ONE:
Through the Local Group Policy Editor
NOTE
  This method is only available for the Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions. See Method Two below for the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions.
1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type gpedit.msc and press Enter.
3. Click Continue for the UAC prompt.
4. In the left pane, click on User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Backup, and Display. (See screenshot below)
5. In the right pane, right click on Prevent the user from running the Backup Status and Configuration program and click Properties.

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6. To Enable Backup Status and Configuration -
A) Dot Disabled or Not Configured and click OK. (See screenshot below)
B) Go to step 8.
7. To Disable Backup Status and Configuration -
A) Dot Enabled and click OK.
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8. Close the Local Group Policy Editor window.



METHOD TWO:
Through the Registry
NOTE
  This will work for all Vista versions.
Through a Download:
1. To Enable Backup Status and Configuration -
A) Click on the download button below to download the Enable_Backup.reg file.
B) Go to step 3.


2. To Disable Backup Status and Configuration -
A) Click on the download button below to download the Disable_Backup.reg file.


3. Click on Save, and save the .reg file to the Desktop.
4. Right click the .reg (On Desktop) file and click Merge.
5. Click on the Run button for Security Warning pop-up.
6. Click on Continue (UAC), Yes, and then OK when prompted.
7. When done, you can delete the .reg file (On Desktop).


The Manual Way:
1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type regedit and press Enter.
3. Click the Continue button for the UAC prompt.
4. In regedit, go to: (See screenshot below)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Backup
NOTE: If you do not have Backup in the left pane, then right click on Windows and click on New and Key. Type Backup and press Enter.

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5. To Disable Backup Status and Configuration -
A) In the left pane, right click on Backup and click on New and Key. Type Client and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: If you already have Client in the left pane, then skip this step 5A and go to step 5B instead.
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B) In the right pane of Client, right click on a empty space and click on New and DWORD (32-bit) Value. Type DisableBackupLauncher and press Enter. (See screenshot below)
C) Right click on DisableBackupLauncher and click Modify.

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D) Type 1 and click OK. (See screenshot below)

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E) The registry will now look like this. (See screenshot below)

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F) Go to step 7.
6. To Enable Backup Status and Configuration -
A) In the right pane, right click on DisableBackupLauncher and click Delete. (See screenshot above)
B) Click Yes to confirm deletion.

7. Close regedit.

That's it,
Shawn

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Re: Backup Status and Configuration - Enable or Disable

Hi Shawn!
I bought my new computer last February, and my computer is HP Pavillion DV6000. The operating system is Windows Vista Home Premiun. The problem I have is that everyday I am losing some gigabites of my hard drive spce. In the begining I lost about 4-5 GB per day and later it's like 1-2 GB per day. I thoughtit's because of this file backing up programme, but I didn't know how to disable it. So I only did System Recovery. I did system recovery about three times since I bought this new laptop. But now I no need to do it also, because I am afraid that will system recovery make a big problem to the computer if I do it so often.
Finally I found your web site and did the things as you have told how to disable the file back up, and I did it manually(didn't download your automatic software). I did it about 3days ago. Two days I didn't lose any GB. But last night again I have lost 1GB. So I think it didn't work well what I did to disable the file back up.
Please help me, Iam afraid that I will lose my whole HD space if this continue.
1. Why am I losing this HD free space everyday?
2. Does my computer save some files somewhere?
3. Where can I find those files my computer has saved them, and how to delete those files?
4. Will it make any problem to my computer if I did system recovery so often( I am feeling like after I did it last time about a week ago, my keyboard is not working properly)?

I trust you can help me and solve this poblem. I am looking forward to hearing from you soon!

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Hello Tuukka, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Since you have a HP computer, it may be the HP Backup and Recovery Manager that is eating up your space. You can uninstall it to stop it.

What is it? :
HP Backup and Recovery Manager

and

Uninstall it:
HP Notebook PCs*-* Uninstalling the Recovery Manager*

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Re: Backup Status and Configuration - Enable or Disable

Hi Shawn!
Thanks a lot for your quick reply. It's nice to join Vista Forums since I can get thousands of important things from it.
Unfortunately in my computer I couln't find a folder called "HP back up and recovery manager" in uninstall a program list. Can it be anywhere else? How can I find it?
I appreciate your kind help!

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Hi Tuukka,

If the HP Backup and Recovery Manager is not where the links above say it's at then, I suppose you do not have it installed. You can check with this tutorial below to see how space is being used by System Restore to see if that may what is eating up that much space. If it is, you can then adjust how much max space it can use.

System Restore - disk space

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Hi Shawn!

Thank you very mch for your kind help. This time it really work well. I am so happy that I got back my hard disc free space. Hereafter I'll ask solutions only from Vista Forums for my all IT problems. I honestly can trust you so much.

I wish you all the best, Shawn & Vista Forums !

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Your welcome Tuukka. I'm happy to hear that it is no longer eating up your hard drive.

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