Impossible to activate the system restore, pop up States disabled by group policy, contact the domain administrator. It's me, duh, I don't know.

Well, I thought the problem (I am the administrator of my PC) and couldn't solve it. Retrieves group policy in the help files and became totally confused with the convoluted information. Can someone give me a summary of what I need to do to enable this feature? I have Win XP Pro SP3.

TIA Bill H.

Try the following article.  This article explains how to disable the system restore, but you can reactivate it by using method 1, then clicking 'turn off' instead of 'enable' in step 3 and 4.

"How to disable the System Restore Configuration User Interface"
  <>http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/283073 >

HTH,
JW

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