Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in Windows 10  

Hi, Brink.
I had a way to disable system protection via registry keys.
I wanted to share with you the way which was tested successfully.
The registry keys of disabling system protection were as following.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SPP\Clients]
"{09F7EDC5-294E-4180-AF6A-FB0E6A0E9513}"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore]
"RPSessionInterval"=dword:00000000

Best regards.

@Brink, the following commands can turn on or off System Restore via elevated Command Prompt. Would you consider adding them into this tutorial?

WMIC /Namespace:\\root\default Path SystemRestore Call Enable "C:\" Turn it on for drive C.

WMIC /Namespace:\\root\default Path SystemRestore Call Disable "C:\" Turn it off for drive C.

For have a Option on SystemStart ( Windows 10 ) without tick UserPrompt its Possible create a CMD file thats use Powershell

Disable Specific Drive ( C:\ )

PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "& {Start-Process PowerShell -ArgumentList '-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command ""Disable-ComputerRestore -Drive "C:" ""' -Verb RunAs}";

Enable Specific Drive ( C:\ )

PowerShell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command "& {Start-Process PowerShell -ArgumentList '-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Command ""Enable-ComputerRestore -Drive "C:" ""' -Verb RunAs}";

Th@nks Brink @nd and any Tenforums Member ! i !

I created the wmic batch file and a elevated shortcut. If I run the shortcut manually, it works, but if I try to run it at startup or logon, it fails whether in the All Users for User folder.

Edit: I just did another check with another shortcut by placing pause in the one above and the other and neither shortcut ran.

OS is Windows 10 Pro; Build 19042.804

Brink said:

Hello mate,

Just to verify, did you create and use the elevated shortcut created using the method below for this?

Create Elevated Shortcut without UAC prompt in Windows 10

Hello Shawn,

You got me on that one, it worked and that is some kind of a trick - Thanks