Hi guys...
I had a pc problem and I used "repair" option and "system restore" it gave me an option to choose the time of when I wish to restore my pc to. Anyways it worked very well. My question is how does my computer decide which time period I am allowed to restore my pc back to and how do i add time periods? thanks
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You can set a Restore Point at any time.
A tutorial
System Restore - Windows 7 Forums
A computer makes restore points whenever you do things on it, such as adding a program or installing an update. You can also create a restore point any time you want. As time goes by you can also increase the amount of space system restore uses on the harddrive. You are the one that chooses what time period you want the system restored to.
You can directly control the amount of space devoted to System Restore through its interface accessible via control panel.
The more space you give it, the farther back in time you can go.
I have 7 GB devoted to System Restore. That currently gives me 9 restore points dating back over 3 weeks. If I wanted to be able to restore to 6 months ago, I would have to increase the space devoted to System Restore to perhaps 50 GB---but I've never wanted to go back more than a few days in reality. So 7 GB is plenty for me. Adjust it according to your own needs.
As the space fills up, the oldest restore point is deleted to make room for a new one.
You should also look into creating backup images.
You can use programs such as Macrium, Acronis, Windows backup, etc.
There are a lot of advantages to backup images over restore points.
A backup image can save you from having to re-install windows and all programs if a catastrophe does happen.
There are SF Tutorials in the "Backup and Restore" section that are helpful.
Tutorials - Windows 7 Forums
Last edited by DavidE; 17 Mar 2012 at 19:25. Reason: spelling
one way to get there is:
Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings
System Protection tab
select the partition, click configure
This tutorial explains how to change the amount of HDD space reserved for shadow storage and system restore points.
System Protection - Change Disk Space Usage
Obviously, if you reduce this space you reduce the number of restore points and when the reserved drive space is full, Windows will delete the oldest restore point.
On today's large hard drives, the default of 10% is way too much and 10 GB should be ample.
10GB should give you 10 to 15 restore points - depending on the size of your system and whether user data is on the C partition too.On today's large hard drives, the default of 10% is way too much and 10 GB should be ample.
If you have a seperate data partition (recommended), you should enable restore points for that partition too. It is very handy in case you need to recover lost files. One uses Shadow Explorer for that.
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