system restore missing

Quite a while back I had some kind of virus attack on my windows xp. After
several anti virus / spyware etc scans I was able to quarantine and delete
the problem and have had a good running system ever since.. The problem I
have is that since that time System Restore has been eliminated. when I go
into Start-Accessories-System tools, the option for System restore is there
but comes up with the message "system restore has been turned off by group
policy - to turn on system restore contact domain administrator"
I have also tried to go through Run- compmgmt.msc-services-system
restore-start and get the message "error 2 the system cannot find the file
specified"
I have tried Run - %system root%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe - and comes
up with the same message that it has been turned off by group........
I have tried to reset the system by inserting the windows disk that came
with the computer but have had no luck.
Any Help apreciated

Hi Kent,

See if the information presented here helps you to resolve the problem:

System Restore Group Policy restrictions
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/srpolicy.htm



Regards,

--
Patti MacLeod
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

"Kent" <Kent@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AA1A9EEE-F0C8-459F-BEA7-89536D44F2CC@microsoft.com...
> Quite a while back I had some kind of virus attack on my windows xp.
> After
> several anti virus / spyware etc scans I was able to quarantine and delete
> the problem and have had a good running system ever since.. The problem
> I
> have is that since that time System Restore has been eliminated. when I
> go
> into Start-Accessories-System tools, the option for System restore is
> there
> but comes up with the message "system restore has been turned off by group
> policy - to turn on system restore contact domain administrator"
> I have also tried to go through Run- compmgmt.msc-services-system
> restore-start and get the message "error 2 the system cannot find the file
> specified"
> I have tried Run - %system root%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe - and comes
> up with the same message that it has been turned off by group........
> I have tried to reset the system by inserting the windows disk that came
> with the computer but have had no luck.
> Any Help apreciated
>