Windows 10: SYSTEM RESTORE GREYED OUT

WINDOWS 11 SYSTEM RESTORE IS GREYED OUT .IT WANTS TO DO UPDATES BUT I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME FOR THEM . I HAVE TO RUN RIGHT NOW . IM ON A LAPTOP AND CANT SHUT OFF UNLESS I DO THINGS ON MICROSOFTS TERMS . **** MICROSOFT !THEY HAVE NO WAY TO PAUSE , RESCHEDULE AND SYSTEM RESTORE IS GREYED OUT .THIS OPERATING SYSTEM IS **** GARBAGE

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System Restore - 'Turn on System Restore' is Greyed Out

Thanks Bree

Okay, that's odd.

Went into GPEDIT.msc, --> Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> System --> System Restore.

“Turn Off System Restore” was 'Disabled'. Set it to 'Enabled' and then back to 'Disabled' and pc restarted to see if it had any effect.

UPDATE 1: - Nope - still greyed out!

If not, will try resetting to 'Not Configured' and will update this post after that.

UPDATE 2: - Still greyed out.

Art

@dalchina

[Stuff that is in square brackets is for me to find the commands again!

From answers.microsoft.com (Ben28993's post)

Link to post: https://answers.microsoft.com ]

I ran an elevated Command Prompt and entered the first two lines into RegEdit:

• reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore" /v "DisableSR" /f

The operation completed successfully

• reg delete "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore" /v "DisableConfig" /f

ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registrykey or value

I haven't yet run the third command:

• reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SPP\Clients" /v " {09F7EDC5-294E-4180-AF6A-FB0E6A0E9513}" /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d "1" /f

... as there was already a key and value here:





Do I simply run that third command to overwrite what is already there??

Just wondering about the key above this in GPEDIT:





There are three options for 'Turn off Configuration': 'Not Configured', 'Enabled' and 'Disabled'. Would changing the key from 'Not Configured' have any effect?

Art

 

System Restore - 'Turn on System Restore' is Greyed Out

Hi folks, a couple of wierd problems...

First, pc is not going to sleep when button pressed. It was doing so until the last couple of days which prompted me to run sfc/ scannow. Sfc found some file corruptions and repaired them. This didn't fix the issue however.

So, I thought about doing a System Restore (which brings me to the second problem).

System Restore is turned off!





When I go to configure System Restore only to find that when I go to System Properties > System Protection Tab and click on 'Configure' :





The 'Turn on System Protection' option under 'Restore Settings' is greyed out. It cannot be clicked on.





So, I ran GPEDIT.msc, navigated to Computer Configuration --> Administrative Templates --> System --> System Restore and I looked for a setting which said “Turn Off System Restore”.

I double-clicked this and selected “Disabled”.





System restore is still greyed out.

Ran regedit.exe looking for the following key:

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

so that I could delete the values in DisableConfig and DisableSR

However, the key did not exist :





Do I have to create the keys and then set their values to zero??

So, any ideas about how to (a) Get System Restore up and running and (b) sort out the sleep problem (I'll take answers on the System Restore issue first if I may).

PC spec is as per listed under 'System One' in 'My Computers'. OS was a clean install of Windows 10 Pro.

Thanks in anticipation,

Art

Update:

Tried to run %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe /d srrstr.dll,ExecuteScheduledSPPCreation from an elevated Command Prompt after checking that Volume Shadow Copy was running





but got the following error:





Still stuck.

 

System Restore Error 0x81000203

Good day,

We can see here that you are having issues performing system restore on your computer. Having said that, we need to determine the cause of this problem. Before we proceed, may we know the following:

• Any changes made on the computer prior to this concern?
• What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?
• Are you getting any error messages when trying to perform system restore? If so, can you send us a screenshot?
  Note: Please do not include any personal information.
• Have you performed all the suggested troubleshooting steps found on this thread?