Easy instructions on starting the System Restore process from the Command Prompt, valid for Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, and XP. We can enable or disable system restore from Windows command line by modifying the relevant registry keys. We can also configure system restore service from command prompt using sc command. To use System Restore in the future, just go back to the same “System Protection” panel you used above. Click the “System Restore” button — now no longer grayed out, assuming you enabled System Restore — and you can use System Restore to go back to a previous restore point. In this article I am going to discuss about error while accessing system restore and some solution to solve the issues. How to enable system restore in Windows Vista.
Windows’ System Restore feature will make sure that software installations, drivers, and other updates can be rolled back. The only price to this feature is some disk usage. If you want to disable System Restore, which is a bad idea, it’s really pretty simple. Just to make sure you understand: Software has bugs. Things crash sometimes. Disabling System Restore will keep you from rolling back changes. It is not a good idea to disable it.
Click the Start button, type “restore,” and then click “Create a restore point.” Don’t worry. This doesn’t actually create a restore point; it just opens the dialog where you can get to all the System Restore options. Click the Configure button below the list of drives: Now simply click the radio button to disable System Protection. (Note again that this is probably a bad idea).
Feb 28, 2017. A system user logged in as Administrator Windows 7 Ultimate, unintentionally turned off system restore when trying to perform a system restore. After this occurred, the Local Admin user was unable to re-enable system restore and was presented with a notification that 'System Restore has been turned off.
That should be all you need to do. Now you’ve got system restore disabled. Living on the edge, eh?