Restore point creation disabled by Group Policy

[Albin]

Hi,
In system properties it is shown that restore point creation is disabled by group policy and the "create" button is disabled.The operating system is Vista Home Basic.Please help.
Thanks!

[Odie]

Bleeping computer have a nice guide as far as system restore is concerned in Vista. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial143.html

[Albin]

Hi,
The link provided does not say how to reenable manual creation of restore points.
Thanks!

[Raymond]

Try this. Run REGEDIT and navigate to the following location.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore

The keys to delete are DisableConfig and DisableSR. Before deleting the keys, backup the keys first by right clicking and select Export.

[Albin]

Hi,
Thanks Raymond,it worked.After editing the registry,when I tried to run Google Chrome,I was getting the error message
"The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to termniate the application."
When I searched Google,the solution offered was to install .NET framework.
Also,the HP Quickplay program was opening automatically.Quickplay is the DVD playing program which can be run by touching a region in the keyboard(not a key) of the notebook PC.
After reboot,the problem was solved.I read from Microsoft site that if we want to install a newer version of .NET framework,we will have to uninstall the previous version.But it is not listed in Programs and Features.Can you tell a way to do this?
Thanks!

[Raymond]

No no no no... Don't uninstall .NET to install a newer version of .NET.
Once I uninstalled .NET and could never got it installed back.

You can install .NET framework over it.

[Albin]

Hi,
I think they were referring to pre release versions of .NET framework.But I thought I read somewhere that we had to uninstall the earlier versions.Sorry for that.
Thanks!