System Restore is suddenly disabled - how do I enable it?

dalchina said:

Do you have any policies enabled at all?

What sort? There are loads of policies, which did you mean?

The simple answer is that today was the first time I opened the policy editor on this machine, so I haven't changed anything.

dalchina said:

Have you used any sort of 'privacy' tool or tweak tool, or registry cleaner?

Nope, I'm highly suspicious of all that sort of stuff, and have tried to keep this machine as clean as possible.

dalchina said:

Can you think of any change that you have made or that has occurred?

Nope. This is work machine, and critical to my business, so I try not to change too much.

Sorry, I haven't given you much to work on have I?

Thanks again.

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Brink said:

In addition to what dalchina posted above, you can use an option in the tutorial below to check and see which group policies you may have configured to see if any may apply to this.

See Applied Group Policies in Windows 10

Thanks for that tutorial. All of those steps show that absolutely nothing has been configured..

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dalchina said:

Is VSS disabled?
- from
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...7fda927?page=2


Start, Stop, and Disable Services in Windows 10

Both were set to Manual, and weren't running. I set them both to Automatic, and started them both, but the controls are all still disabled .

Do I need to restart my PC after each of these changes, or should they take effect immediately?

Thanks again.

Oh dear, so what do I do now?

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Callender said:

Have a check here just in case:

In the right pane delete "DisableConfig" & "DisableSR" (if found)

Yes, that's exactly what I did. As soon as I delete them, I can press f5 and they re-appear.

Just to prove (to myself if nothing else) that I'm not completely mad, here is a recording of me deleting the keys.

https://www.pixata.co.uk/MyBits/200520RegEdit.mp4

The confirmation box and the View menu didn't show up on the video for some reason, but it should still be clear enough what happened.