John Veteran Posted March 16, 2003 Veteran Share Posted March 16, 2003 anyone know how to turn system restore on or off either with a command line or through an api in windows? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/66565-enabledisable-system-restore-command-line/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 gameguy34 said: anyone know how to turn system restore on or off either with a command line or through an api in windows? well since its a service.... you should be able to stop it... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/66565-enabledisable-system-restore-command-line/#findComment-687997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firecat Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 xStainDx said: well since its a service.... you should be able to stop it... To Disable SR: net stop "System Restore Service" To Enable SR: net start "System Restore Service" goretsky 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/66565-enabledisable-system-restore-command-line/#findComment-688057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted March 17, 2003 Author Veteran Share Posted March 17, 2003 thanks firecat Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/66565-enabledisable-system-restore-command-line/#findComment-688375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abagaw Gagaf Posted May 16, 2013 Share Posted May 16, 2013 Managing system restore from command promt (using these cmd lines): 1) Turn Off (it may delete all system restore points) : sc config srservice start= disabled Reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore" /v DisableSR /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f net stop srservice 2) Turn On: sc config srservice start= Auto net start srservice Reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore" /v DisableSR /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f goretsky 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/66565-enabledisable-system-restore-command-line/#findComment-595693364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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