I teach classes to seniors including one on backing up. One of the programs is Windows 7 backup. This begins with the dialog box showing "backup has not been set". After this has been set for one class, I cannot find a way to get back to the first condition - that is subsequent classes can no longer be shown how to do the initial set up. Can anyone tell me how to go back to the original condition (without having to do a reinstal!)

Hi, You can achieve this in the registry (as you know the registry is an important element of the OS so please try this first on a demo or non critical PC) Open the Start Menu, type regedit in the search box, and press Enter. In regedit, navigate to the location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsBackup In the right pane, right click on ValidConfig and click on Delete. Click on Yes to confirm deletion. In the left pane, right click on ScheduleParams and click on Delete. Click on Yes to confirm deletion In the left pane, right click on Security and click on Delete Click on Yes to confirm deletion In the left pane, right click on Status and click on Delete. Click on Yes to confirm deletion Close regedit. (If Automatic Backup Scheduler Was Set) This is to remove the automatic backup scheduler from within Task Scheduler so that you will not get a "The last backup did not complete successfully" type message in action centre. A) Open the Start Menu, type taskschd.msc in the search box, and press Enter. B) If prompted by UAC then click on Yes if administrator or enter the administrator's password if standard user. C) In the left pane of Task Scheduler, double click on Task Scheduler Library, Microsoft, and Windows to expand them, then select WindowsBackup D) In the middle pane, right click on only AutomaticBackup (if available), and click on Delete. Note: If AutomaticBackup is not there, then you did not have a automatic backup schedule set. E) Click on OK to confirm deletion. F) Close Task Scheduler. As you are doing this for training purposes and one could assume you will do this regularly, you can create a registry script which you can run to automate this process. Just create a .reg file with the following code. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsBackup] "ValidConfig"=- [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsBackup\ScheduleParams] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsBackup\Security] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsBackup\Status] Kind Regards, Martin (Credit: Shawn Brink) If you find my information useful, please rate it. :-)