System Restore Disabled by Your System Administrator or Is Greyed Out FIX.
If you receive a System Restore is disabled by your system administrator message, this post will help you fix the problem on your Windows 10/8/7 computer. It happens even to computers which are not a part of a domain or company. The primary reason behind these is incorrect policies and registry entries, but it can be easily fixed.
The "System Restore has been turned off by Administrator or Group Policy. To turn on System Restore, contact your domain administrator" error message, may displayed on a Windows 7, 8 or 10 based computer when the user tries to launch the system restore. The user is already logged in as Administrator and cannot enable the System Restore because the "Configure" button at System Protection settings is grayed out.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
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If the System Restore is disabled on your system and you cannot enable it, through the System Protections settings, then probably your computer is infected by a virus or other malware program.
This tutorial contains instructions to fix the following problems in Windows 7, 8 or Windows 10 OS:
System Restore has been turned off by Group Policy.
System Restore has been turned off by your System Administrator.
System Restore is Disabled.
System Protection settings are greyed out.
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Samsung).
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