How to Enabled/Disable System Restore in Registry
- Click Start |Run | type Regedit.exe| Press Enter or OK
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore
3. To the right, look for DisableSR and double click it
3. To the right, look for DisableSR and double click it
4. Under Value Data, if the value is set to 0 (Enable) 1 (Disable)
5. Click OK
5. Restart the computer for the change to take affect
5. Click OK
5. Restart the computer for the change to take affect
What is restore on your machine when you use System Restore?
- Registry
- Profiless (Local only-roaming user profiles not impacted by restore)
- COM+ DB
- WFP.dll Cache
- WMI DB
- IIS Metabase
- File type which are monitored by System Restore as specified in the SDK available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sr/sr/monitored_file_extensions.asp.
What is not restore on your machine when you use System Restore?
- DRM Settings
- Passwords in the SAM hive
- WPA settings (Windows Authentication information is not restored)
- Specific directories/files listed in the Monitored File Extensions list in the System Restore section of the Platform SDK e.g. 'My Document'
- Any file types not monitored by System Restore like personal data files (e.g. .doc, .jpg, .txt)
- Item listed in both Filesnottobackup and KeysnottoRestore. (hklm->system->controlset001->control->backuprestore->filesnottobackup and keysnottorestore) in the registry.)
- User-created data stored in the user profile
- Contents of redirected folders