Re: System restore Tab missing!

From: Taurarian (taurarianREMOVECAPS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/16/05 

Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:11:18 +1100

Hi, I don't have XP Pro but perhaps this may be of assistance:-

System Restore Tab Missing
Check your settings here: For Pro: Start/Run/gpedit.msc. Computer Configuration,
Administrative Templates, System, System Restore.

Re-Enabling System Restore (WinXP Pro)
If you previously disabled system restore through the Group Policy Editor, the option
to start it again does not show in the System Properties. You can re-enable it again
by:

1. Run the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
2. Go to Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / System / System Restore
3. Set Turn off System Restore and Turn off Configuration to Disable
4. Right click on My Computer
5. Select Manage
6. Go to Services and Applications / Services
7. Scroll down to System Restore Service
8. Set it for Automatic
9. Click on the Start button to start the service
10. Close down this window
11. Go back to the Group Policy Editor and configure both to Not configured
12. Now when you right click on My Computer, there should be a tab for System Restore
and you can configure how much space will be used.

"XPPro user" <XPProuser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E2937811-085C-4ECF-84D6-DA651398C2FE@microsoft.com...
> Cannot use the system restore feature. I am the administrator on this
> computer. Also tried to use the system restore function in safe mode under
> “administrator” login…still wont work.
>
> Right click my computer icon>> properties
> The system Restore Tab is missing
>
> Looked online and some of the suggestions by other forum user
>
> 1. System Restore for Windows XP
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_restore.htm
>
> Go to
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore.
> If a "DisableSR" value doesn't exist, go to the Edit menu, select New, DWORD
> value, and create the value.
> Set the value to 1 to disable System Restore or 0 to enable System Restore.
>
> The “DisableSR” value is set to 0
>
> 2. How to start the System Restore tool at a command prompt in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304449
>
> But I get he following message:
> You do not have sufficient security privileges to restore your system.
> Please contact your administrator, or logout and log in again as an
> administrator and try again
>
> 3. How to troubleshoot the System Restore tool in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q302796
>
> I checked and it shows that my system restore function has been started I
> followed the directions to go to the “Event Viewer”, but cannot see any
> services starting with ‘sr’ in the “Event Viewer”
>
> 4. Also followed instructions under
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_scetroubletn.mspx
>
> When I run esentutl /g %windir%\Security\Database\Secedit.sdb I get the
> following message
> “The database is no up-to-date. This operation may find that this database
> is corrupt because data from the log files has yet to be placed in the
> database”
>
> I tried to run recovery using esentutl /r
> %windir%\Security\Database\Secedit.sdb, I got the following message
> “Operation terminated with error –1003”
>
> Ran the repair using esentutl /p %windir%\Security\Database\Secedit.sdb
>
> Note:
> It is recommended that you immediately perform a full backup of this
> database. If you restore a backup made before the repair, the database will
> be rolled back to he state it was in at the time of that backup
>
> Operation completed successfully in 5.598 seconds
>
>
> Sorry for the long post...but I wanted to post everything i have done so far.
> Please let me know if there is a workaround or a solution to this.
> Thanks a lot!

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