How To Enable/Disable Windows 7 System Protection

By Aun on Aug 21 2009 3 Comments

System Protection creates and saves information about your computer’s system files and settings on a regular basis, it basically creates system restore points so that you may restore your system back to an old state in case of any disaster or unwanted circumstance. To enable/disable Windows 7 System Protection, please go through the following steps.

First of all right click the Computer icon on your desktop and choose the Properties option, a new dialogue box will be displayed, here you will click the System protection option which is located in the left side menu bar.

System protection

Now, in the System Properties dialogue box, choose the disk on which you want to enable the function of System Protection. Just as an example, I have chosen D drive, click the Configure button to proceed further.

System Properties

Select the option Restore system settings and previous versions of file and then click Apply, you can also limit the maximum disk space used by this feature in the  Max usage option. To disable it, check Turn Off System Protection.

System Protection final

Click OK and the system protection feature will be enabled/disabled on the particular drive, if you want to read about system restore points then you can find some useful information here. Enjoy!

  • cream

    is there anyway to do this through the cmd.exe? my pc wont work anymore and i only have 5 options… startup repair, system restore, system image, recovery windows, memory diagnostic and command prompt. when i try system restore it tells me i need to enable system protection but i cant acces it… and everything else isnt working please reply quickly thanks.

  • chathuka

    how to disable write protection on flash drive using windows 7
    I recently purchased a RetailPlus 32Gb flash drive and after a few uses, it will no longer permit me to add files to the drive, and sometimes won’t let me delete files from the drive. It says it is write protected and that I must change the write protection.(There is no external lock-unlock switch on the flash drive) but o tried the pen drive on a windows XP based system and it copies files without any issues..
    I use Windows 7, and I tried to disable the write protection on the flash drive by following the directions posted
    by some folks on the net that said..

    Check out the registry under:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorageDevicePolicies

    However, when I check out the registry, I only get this far…

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlStorage
    there is no StorageDevicePolicies subfolder

    any ideas?

    eagerly awaiting your help in this matter.

  • michael

    I have run into this problem as well and now i am stuck.
    is there anyway to do this through the cmd.exe? my pc wont work anymore and i only have 5 options… startup repair, system restore, system image, recovery windows, memory diagnostic and command prompt. when i try system restore it tells me i need to enable system protection but i cant acces it… and everything else isnt working please reply quickly thanks.
    HELP!