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How to Create a System Restore Point in Windows 7
Published by Brink
11-25-2008
| System Restore Point - Create How to Create a System Restore Point in Windows 7 Information | | By default in Windows 7, restore points are created once per day at 12 AM and at startup by a task in Task Scheduler, and before significant system events such as a program or driver installation. This will show you how to manually create a restore point whenever you want one. |  | NOTE | | These restore points contain information about registry settings and other system information that Windows 7 uses. System Restore points do not include the personal user files. |  | WARNING | | System Protection will need to be turned on for the select drive that you wish to create a restore point for. |  | RELATED LINKS: | METHOD ONE: |
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| Through a Shortcut |
1. For how, see: How to Make a Create System Restore Point Shortcut in Windows 7 | METHOD TWO: |
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| Through System Protection |
1. Open the Control Panel (All Items View). A) Click on the System icon.
B) Go to step 3. OR 2. Open the Start Menu. A) Right click on the Computer button and click on Properties. 3. Click on the System Protection link. (See screenshot below step 4) 4. Close the System window. (See screenshot below) 5. Check to make sure that you have System Protection turned on for the listed available disk, that you want to create a restore point for, to include it in the restore point. (See screenshot below step 6) 6. Click on the Create button. (See screenshot below) 7. Type in a description for the restore point to help recognize it when doing a System Restore, and click on the Create button.. (See screenshot below) 8. You will now see this while the restore point is being created. (See screenshot below) 9. When the restore point has finished being created, click on the Close button. (See screenshot below) 10. Click on OK. (See screenshot below step 6) That's it,
Shawn |  Published by | | Administrator Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 4,452 | |
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05-22-2009
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| | Senior Member Windows 7200, XPSP3, Ubuntu Jaunty (KD4) Adelaide, Australia |
Noticed that I'm not getting the 12am System restore point, nor the significant driver update restore point (I installed the Win7 Nvidia drivers today, no restore created) - seem to have a few generated by installing programs - again not Nvidia.
Is there a simple way to get the dailies or should I use Task Scheduler? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD Athlon 64 3200+ OS Windows 7200, XPSP3, Ubuntu Jaunty (KD4) Motherboard Gigabyte K8T8000 Memory DDR 1.5Gb Graphics Card 6600GT Monitor(s) Displays MultiMonitor (2) LCD Mouse Revolution Hard Drives Old Seagate 75
Big Western Digital
Samsung 500Gb pulled out of an external drive and installed
Ext: Maxtor (Firewire), 1Gb Lacie (think its Samsung)
05-22-2009
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| | Administrator Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 Texas |
Hello Charles,
I'm not sure why Windows 7 would not have created a restore point automatically for that. You can use this though to easily create one automatically whenever you wanted to though. System Restore Point Shortcut
Hope this helps,
Shawn | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
750GB Samsung HDD HD753LJ SATA 32MB Internet Speed 3382 kb/s Download and 312 kb/s Upload
05-22-2009
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| | Senior Member Windows 7200, XPSP3, Ubuntu Jaunty (KD4) Adelaide, Australia |
Appreciate that tutorial - i did go in and do it manually and I'll probably grab the shortcut and put it in my documents or somewhere - don't need the desktop clutter.
Guess I'll have to learn how to make a new task!............
Well, I made a new task using your vbs script as the program!
Had a bit of an issue with permissions but finally it accepted my task.
Set to run in half an hour. We'll see.
Thanks again for the script
UPDATE: all worked fine
Last edited by Charles Kane; 05-22-2009 at 11:33 PM..
Reason: update
| My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD Athlon 64 3200+ OS Windows 7200, XPSP3, Ubuntu Jaunty (KD4) Motherboard Gigabyte K8T8000 Memory DDR 1.5Gb Graphics Card 6600GT Monitor(s) Displays MultiMonitor (2) LCD Mouse Revolution Hard Drives Old Seagate 75
Big Western Digital
Samsung 500Gb pulled out of an external drive and installed
Ext: Maxtor (Firewire), 1Gb Lacie (think its Samsung)
05-22-2009
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| | Administrator Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 Texas |
You're welcome Charles. | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
750GB Samsung HDD HD753LJ SATA 32MB Internet Speed 3382 kb/s Download and 312 kb/s Upload
3 Weeks Ago
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| | Area 51 crash survivor XP, Vista and W7 Roswell,New Mexico |
All this seems to be very unnecessary.
Why cant W7 just auto create restore points similar to XP instead of all of us go thru all this modification? 
I am dual booting XP and W7 and was confused as to why restore points kept disappearing.  Now I know.
My question is : does anyone know if this creation of a restore point only if none has been made in 7 days will be included in the GA of W7?
I hope not. I think an option to turn off this feature so that you would be able to automatically create regular/daily restore points would be more sensible.
Am I the only one that feels this way?? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Low Rider !! OS XP, Vista and W7 CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200 Memory 4 GB Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce Sound Card Onboard Monitor(s) Displays 22" Acer Wide Screen Screen Resolution 1280x1024 Keyboard Saitek Eclipse Mouse Logitech invisible optic wireless Case Custom Cooling F-12 cooled Hard Drives WD 1 TB Caviar Black 7200 RPM Internet Speed Broadband
3 Weeks Ago
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| | Administrator Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 Texas |
Hello Smoaky,
You can adjust or disable the System Restore tasks to create automatic restore points as you like. If you disable them, then Windows 7 will not create any automatic restor points. Either way. you are always free to manually create a restore point when you like.
Hope this helps,
Shawn | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
750GB Samsung HDD HD753LJ SATA 32MB Internet Speed 3382 kb/s Download and 312 kb/s Upload
3 Weeks Ago
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| | Area 51 crash survivor XP, Vista and W7 Roswell,New Mexico |
Quote: Originally Posted by Brink Hello Smoaky,
You can adjust or disable the System Restore tasks to create automatic restore points as you like. If you disable them, then Windows 7 will not create any automatic restor points. Either way. you are always free to manually create a restore point when you like.
Hope this helps,
Shawn Thanks 
I have read the how-to on this a while ago but I am running a dual boot of XP and every time I boot to XP all my previously saved restore points in W7 get deleted. Each time I boot to W7 I would have to start all over again creating restore points. Kinda makes having system restore useless...yes?  Seems as though MS doesn't want anyone to run no other OS but W7. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Low Rider !! OS XP, Vista and W7 CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200 Memory 4 GB Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce Sound Card Onboard Monitor(s) Displays 22" Acer Wide Screen Screen Resolution 1280x1024 Keyboard Saitek Eclipse Mouse Logitech invisible optic wireless Case Custom Cooling F-12 cooled Hard Drives WD 1 TB Caviar Black 7200 RPM Internet Speed Broadband
3 Weeks Ago
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| | Administrator Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 Texas |
Not a problem Smoaky. You can use the tutorial below to hide Windows 7 from XP to stop XP from wiping out W7's restore points. System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete - Vista Forums | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 (7264) Ultimate x64 CPU Core2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Motherboard Gigabyte X48-DQ6 Memory 8 GB (4x2) DDR2 PC2-8500 1066 MHz Patriot Extreme Graphics Card BFG GeForce 9600 GT OC 512MB Sound Card Realtek HD Audio ALC889A Integrated Chip Monitor(s) Displays 28" Hanns-G HG281DJB and 17" eMachines E17T4 Screen Resolution 28" 1920x1200 and 17" 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution Mouse Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution PSU Antec NeoPower 500 Watt Case Tagan El-Diablo Full Tower Cooling 250 mm Front, 360 mm Side, stock CPU, 120 mm SiLenX Rear Hard Drives 64GB Patriot SSD (v2)
750GB Samsung HDD HD753LJ SATA 32MB Internet Speed 3382 kb/s Download and 312 kb/s Upload
3 Weeks Ago
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| | Area 51 crash survivor XP, Vista and W7 Roswell,New Mexico |
update
Just found the How-to on stopping XP from deleting Vista/W7 restore points.
Thanks
I guess my point is seems like alot of work. MS is trying to make W7 as compatible as possible sure would have been nice for them to have thought about the people wanting to dual boot and keep us all from having to mess with the registry to accomplish this. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Low Rider !! OS XP, Vista and W7 CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200 Memory 4 GB Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce Sound Card Onboard Monitor(s) Displays 22" Acer Wide Screen Screen Resolution 1280x1024 Keyboard Saitek Eclipse Mouse Logitech invisible optic wireless Case Custom Cooling F-12 cooled Hard Drives WD 1 TB Caviar Black 7200 RPM Internet Speed Broadband | Tutorial Tools | Search this Tutorial | | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode | All times are GMT -6. The time now is 05:41 PM. |  |