Thanks for the much-needed help. But, yeah, I've tried that. It keeps popping up with this: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y2... ..So I'm in a dilemma here, because I can't turn it on without the stupid little tab.

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Is this your home PC? If it is Try tapping f8 repeatedly on bootup and go in to safe mode. Once in safe mode try all the steps we did earlier and see if the systems restore shows up. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

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Goto 'Start Menu' -->Run type "gpedit.msc" hit enter navigate to --->computer configuration --->administrative templates --->system --->system restore This might allow you to turn on system restore from here. you will probably have to login as an admin to try this. good luck david

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Yes, I just found this page: http://www.theeldergeek.com/re-enab... Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

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Well done XpUser4Real for finding the full instructions. I hoped i was on the right lines but didn't know what service to start/disable in the group policy editor. I wasn't willing to mess around with my own system im afraid! David

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Whoo..MANY thanks both of you. I am the administrator, though, and when I run gpedit.msc, it says: "Windows cannot find 'gpedit.msc'. Make sure you typed the name in correctly, and then try again."

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Hopefully the instructions will help Ellie Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

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In your profile for post #1 you had stated that you were running WinXP PRO. The Group Policies Editor (gpedit.msc) is not available in WinXP Home. If you are running XP Home then you will get that error message. I must throw this back over to XpUser4Real i'm afraid. Possibly think about backing up all your critical data to cd/dvd or external drive until you can get system restore up and running. regards d.

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I was checking out your problem. Some pages I found stated that spyware could be the culprit. These are all FREE....Have you used: Spyware Blaster Spybot S&D (be sure to immunize) Adaware SE and most of all, I keep mentioning this free scan http://www.spywareinfo.com/xscan.php and remove all it finds. This scan seems to find quite a bit that the spyware scans miss. See how you make out Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

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what puzzles me is the image in response 7. That is a pop-up from XP Pro, even though her response 5 showed XP Home. This is a bit confusing. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

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Try this Kellys fix: http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_... Download 289 on the right hand side of the column and run the file. That may bring it back...let's keep our fingers crossed! Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

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Now if that doesn't work...I found this online with some research and the poster said it worked: http://support.microsoft.com/defaul... This tells you how to back up your registry just in case. For WinXP Home Click Start/Run and type REGEDIT Locate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows NT\SystemRestore In the right-pane, delete the value "DisableConfig". Close Registry Editor Close and re-open the System Restore properties page. Note you can save the registry key first by: On the File menu, click Export. In the File name box, type SaveKey, and then click Save. Is there a "DisableSR" value in the same registry key? If so, delete it as well. Take your time with this and Good Luck. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

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