Restore Points

This is more out of curiosity than anything else.

I find using restore points very beneficial especially when I am installing new software. If I make a mistake installing new software then by having manual restore point prior to the install, I can do an instant restore and fix what every I need to.

This is what I don't understand. I started keeping a record of my manual restore points. What I find is that they do NOT last very long. 24 hours in about the record that they show up.

That is without any updates for new software installs.

I was just wondering why the manual restore points don't last any longer.

Dinesh said:

This article should give you some idea.
System Restore points are deleted after you restart your Windows 7-based computer

Also, dual boot setup sometimes causes the restore points to be deleted at every boot.

Have a look at these articles. These should fix the issue.

System Protection - Change Disk Space Usage

Shadow copies may be lost when you defragment a volume

Saw this thread. Nice links there. Thanks. I had that problem in a dual boot sometime 2010. Never did solved that so I disregarded restore points and just relied on regular image backups.

Dinesh said:

Same here. I too rely on regular image back ups however restore points can save lot of time and is more of a quick win.

Hi Dinesh :)

There was a time I did liked restore points. Even used the auto-restore point creation tool here in the forums but when I shifted to dual boot and later triple boot the issue arose. So regular image backups is now my cup of tea :)

Yesterday I changed my usage for restore points from 319 mb to 2 gb. This morning the last two manual restore points were still showing. I think this is at least extending the time I will see manual restore points.

huffman said:

Yesterday I changed my usage for restore points from 319 mb to 2 gb. This morning the last two manual restore points were still showing. I think this is at least extending the time I will see manual restore points.

Have you seen this one..?

System Restore Point : Create at System Startup