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Disable System restore with RegEdit in windows 7?

Im having trouble finding the Registry keys to modify/create/delete to disable System Restore in Windows 7.  I found a few possibilities online, but none seem to work.

This is one of them:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore]

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore]

"DisableConfig"=dword:00000001

 

Thanks for your help!

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I may be wrong but can't you do it more easily by just turning off System Restore as follows?

1.  Control Panel -- System & Security -- System

2.  Click System Protection on the left.

3. Under Protection Settings , click the disk, and then Configure

4. Click Turn off system protection .

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Hi,

As ADMIN

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT

Under Windows NT  - create key - Name = SystemRestore

Then a  new DWORD value - Name - DisableConfig - Set Value data  1

How to Disable the System Restore Configuration User Interface
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283073/en-us

Hope this helps.

Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience : Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.
Rob Brown - past Microsoft MVP - Windows Insider MVP 2016 - 2021
Microsoft MVP Windows and Devices for IT 2009 - 2020

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