Hi! I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 running XP Professional. I have plenty of memory (M), plenty of available hard drive space (50 GB) and a non-working system restore feature. It did work until about 2 months ago. When I attempt to use it it goes through the restart and then says that it cannot restore my machine. No matter which highlighted date I select, I get the same response. I've increased the memory space for it, I've tried manually creating restore points--always the same response. HELP!!!
Eric
ok read this.......
Re-Enabling System Restore
One of the tips that was widely circulated on the net when XP Professional was first released involved disabling System Restore via Group Policy Editor. It certainly works, but a problem arises if you want to re-enable System Restore at a later date. There is no option to re-enable it again. To do so:
Start the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc)
Navigate to Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/System/System Restore
Set Turn off System Restore and Turn off Configuration to Disable
Right click on My Computer and Select Manage
Navigate to Services and Applications/Services
Navigate to System Restore Service and double click
On the General tab set [Startup Type] to Automatic using the drop down list
Click the Start button to start the service
Close the Computer Management console
Return to System Restore in Group Policy Editor and configure both to Not Configured
Close Group Policy Editor and reboot the system.
After the reboot is complete, right click My Computer, select Properties and the tab for System Restore will have been restored. Configure it to your individual needs and satisfaction.
