system restore

kane01 · #1 Mar 5, 2005, 05:22 PM

hi everbody, am using xp2 sp2 home ed. i tried to access system restore to switch it off temporarily to be met with the message:turned off by group policy,to turn on contact your domain administrator! went to services where it was showing as stopped,tried to start itgot the following message:sys rest. on local comp. started then stopped,some services stop automatocally if they have ni work to do.started comp in safe mode with command prompt,typed in command to start sys rest. got original message! anyone got the foggiest as to whats going on? many thanks in advance for any help

walt17 · Mar 5, 2005, 05:53 PM

Try going to control panel >system >system restore and turning restore on/off from there.

fredg · Mar 6, 2005, 04:04 AM

Hi,
Here is a link with step by step instructions on how to use, change, etc, the System Restore:

You might compare these steps with what you are attempting to do:

http://www.informit.com/articles/art...01189&seqNum=1

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kane01 · Mar 6, 2005, 06:43 AM

hi walt17,thanks for reply,no joy there,in the sys properties window that came up there was no sys restore tab,xp came already installed on comp.i dont know if that is the reason for it not being there.
hi fredg again thanks for reply am just about to try your link will post back with results,hopefully good ones!

kane01 · Mar 6, 2005, 06:58 AM

hi fredg,no joy there i`m afraid,have trawled through microsoft knowledge base with no luck,who would be my domain administrator as it says in the first error message igot? thanks for your time and trouble.

walt17 · Mar 6, 2005, 08:08 AM

Hi Kane01,
With the system restore tab missing that means you don't have permission to start or change settings. You need administrator priveleges. In XP at least one user has to be disignated as an administor. Go to user accounts in the control panel and see who has that authority.

If there is no person designated as user, there should be a generic administor. My computer initially had it as "X". You can log on as X and then rename it or change your account type to administor.

Walt

kane01 · Mar 6, 2005, 09:14 AM

hi,walt, thanks for reply,there are four of us who use this comp. we are all down as administrators,i couldnt even switch sys restore on in safe mode using command prompt,this is mighty puzzling! pete.

SESaskDFC · Mar 6, 2005, 09:33 AM

Howdy:

Have you tried logging into Windows as the TRUE Administrator rather than just a user with Admin rights??

Murray

kane01 · Mar 6, 2005, 10:34 AM

hi all,many thanks to all who replied to this query, have managed to sort it out,had to delete two values in theregistryin theend !! a bit nerve wracking but everything seems to be hunky dory! muchos gracias from a happy englishman.

astrolabe · Mar 8, 2005, 12:04 PM

Hi Kane01, I met exactly the same problem as yours and I am still not know how to do that, could you please tell me how did you do that?
Thanks



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