System Restore Point - Create

**Brink** · **METHOD ONE:**

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:
Through a Shortcut

1. For how, see: How to Make a Create System Restore Point Shortcut in Windows 7

METHOD TWO:
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

**Charles Kane** · 05-22-2009

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?

**Brink** · 05-22-2009

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

**Charles Kane** · 05-22-2009

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

**Brink** · 05-22-2009

You're welcome Charles.

smoaky · 3 Weeks Ago

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??

**Brink** · 3 Weeks Ago

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

smoaky · 3 Weeks Ago

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.

**Brink** · 3 Weeks Ago

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

smoaky · 3 Weeks Ago

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.