System Restore Points Are Disabled

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- 24 November, 2021 at 10:52 am #4826
  Stigg
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  Just a minor annoyance that has been happening in SDIO for a long time.
  
  I get the message up the top that: System Restore Points Are Disabled
  
  But every time I check, System Restore points are NOT disabled.
- 25 November, 2021 at 3:55 pm #4831
  Glenn
  Keymaster
  can you check the following value:
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\SystemRestore\RPSessionInterval
- 25 November, 2021 at 3:55 pm #4832
  Glenn
  Keymaster
  and let me know the exact windows version where you see the discrepancy.
- 25 November, 2021 at 4:26 pm #4833
  Stigg
  Participant
  RPSessionInterval DWORD Value @
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore
  
  is 0.
  
  I guess it should be 1 even though System Restore is enabled and working.
  
  Edit: Changing RPSessionInterval to 1 fixed it.
  - This reply was modified 2 years ago by Stigg.
- 25 November, 2021 at 6:46 pm #4835
  Stigg
  Participant
  Could it be that the RPSessionInterval DWORD Value is obsolete?
- 25 November, 2021 at 7:11 pm #4836
  Glenn
  Keymaster
  could be. what windows version are you looking at?
- 25 November, 2021 at 8:31 pm #4837
  Stigg
  Participant
  Windows 11.
- 2 December, 2021 at 8:24 am #4842
  Glenn
  Keymaster
  I’ve been experimenting with this and switching the system restore on and off doesn’t seem to update the registry or the wmi class so I’ll have to keep exploring…
- 2 December, 2021 at 8:59 am #4843
  Glenn
  Keymaster
  I switched off system restore points via System Properties, switched it on again, did this a couple of times and now the registry entry is correctly reflecting the system restore state. I don’t know why that worked.
- 4 December, 2021 at 3:55 pm #4846
  Stigg
  Participant
  No worries, Glenn.
  
  At least I know that I can update RPSessionInterval DWORD Value to reflect System Restore’s correct state.
- 23 December, 2021 at 4:12 pm #4929
  Stigg
  Participant
  Windows 11 has changed RPSessionInterval back to 0 again, yet System Restore is still enabled.
  - 24 December, 2021 at 7:58 am #4938
    Glenn
    Keymaster
    Windows is up to something. I’ll have to keep exploring.
- 24 December, 2021 at 4:07 pm #4939
  Stigg
  Participant
  It’s not a big problem.
  I just thought that I would mention it.
  
  I opened SDIO yesterday only to find the message about System Restore being disabled, and sure enough, the RPSessionInterval DWORD Value had reverted back to 0.
- 4 January, 2022 at 9:05 am #4969
  Glenn
  Keymaster
  I going to change the check so that under Windows 11, SDIO will assume system protection is enabled. If selected, it will attempt to create a restore point which may or may not succeed.
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