System Restore disabled by Group Policy & Regedit disabled by Group Policy
I had a customers computer in the store today which was a simple windows XP home edition desktop and they wanted to restore the PC to a earlier time. This is normally a simple task however when I went to system restore I recieved the error “System Restore Disabled by Group policy”. Since this was just a normal persons desktop I found this very odd. Next I tried to edit the policy values via the registry and was greeted by another error saying ” Registry Editing has been Disabled by Group policy”. This was starting to get a little annoying so I decided to document my steps to fix this issue. Now before I get a hundred comments with people saying there is a better way remember there is more than one way to do things and this is just my way.
Below I document the few simple steps to fix this error.