GSMAN45

The big problem I was having is there is no 'gpedit.msc' in the home version of XP....I even tried to install it per other info I had gathered, but no settings for that, I just got lucky!.............I believe my reg tweak along the way should permanently stop the other drives from being monitored also.....so I guess it was all worth it.

Figured it out,installed security admin/reboot into safe-mode/administrator//uninstalled security admin. Still kinda strange considering my account is an administrator account which I was able to install and use the program in effectively changing the rules I wished toward other users, none of which had anything to do with system restore!

on my XP home machine now has the configuration locked out, this is what it says for the checkbox "Turn off System Restore (disabled by Group Policy)". Don't know how it happened, i have ixis security administrator on the machine, have already checked its settings which were fine, uninstalled it anyway thinking there was a fluke...no luck. The problem this presents in my case is that I run a second 160GB barracuda and an external iomega USB drive both for storage only. On a weekly basis, I back up the 160 to the iomega for double protection, I would usually have to stop system restore on these drives along with a partition I have for swap, but I always allow restore to run with no limitations on the OS drive,///[saved my butt a few times!]. I have been through the registry and found nothing to help other than adding those drives to the "folders to not back up" lists. I reinstalled system restore with the .inf in the windows folder, same thing! Any Ideas would be of great help, Thanks in advance.