How to disable System Restore in Vista

Hi,

I am Working on Windows Vista.
I am trying to disable System restore programatically. Through web I
came to know that

System Restore in Vista ignores registry keys at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion
\SystemRestore
Changes to these keys in Vista will have no effect on how System
Restore functions.
These keys are there for backwards compatibility with some XP scripts.

Please see the below link
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/q_a.html#13

Please can any help me how to disable and enable System Restrore
PROGRAMATICALLY USING C & WIN32 using registry keys.

Thanks,
Manjunath.M

Wow! That would be great to do prior to installing a virus or other malware.

Why must "you" do it. Just curious is all.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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"Manjunath.M" <> wrote in message
news:6aeb84fd-b9b8-47c6-948a-...
> Hi,
>
> I am Working on Windows Vista.
> I am trying to disable System restore programatically. Through web I
> came to know that
>
> System Restore in Vista ignores registry keys at
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion
> \SystemRestore
> Changes to these keys in Vista will have no effect on how System
> Restore functions.
> These keys are there for backwards compatibility with some XP scripts.
>
> Please see the below link
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/q_a.html#13
>
> Please can any help me how to disable and enable System Restrore
> PROGRAMATICALLY USING C & WIN32 using registry keys.
>
> Thanks,
> Manjunath.M

Manjunath.M wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am Working on Windows Vista.
> I am trying to disable System restore programatically. Through web I
> came to know that
>
> System Restore in Vista ignores registry keys at
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion
> \SystemRestore
> Changes to these keys in Vista will have no effect on how System
> Restore functions.
> These keys are there for backwards compatibility with some XP scripts.
>
> Please see the below link
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/q_a.html#13
>
> Please can any help me how to disable and enable System Restrore
> PROGRAMATICALLY USING C & WIN32 using registry keys.

See
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...e/default.mspx
for some WMI scripts that allow interaction with System Restore. For
more info on the methods in the SystemRestore WMI class see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa378951.aspx.

For programmatically interacting with System Restore via its API see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa378987.aspx.
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Tom Porterfield

Hi Manjunath

Go to Control Panel > System > in the left window select Advanced System
Settings > System Protection tab.

Remove the check mark next to the drive you want to turn off System Restore.

Hope this helps

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Bob Eyster
MS Windows Vista Home Premium



"Manjunath.M" <> wrote in message
news:6aeb84fd-b9b8-47c6-948a-...
> Hi,
>
> I am Working on Windows Vista.
> I am trying to disable System restore programatically. Through web I
> came to know that
>
> System Restore in Vista ignores registry keys at
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion
> \SystemRestore
> Changes to these keys in Vista will have no effect on how System
> Restore functions.
> These keys are there for backwards compatibility with some XP scripts.
>
> Please see the below link
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/q_a.html#13
>
> Please can any help me how to disable and enable System Restrore
> PROGRAMATICALLY USING C & WIN32 using registry keys.
>
> Thanks,
> Manjunath.M