By default in Windows 7 for all drives that System Protection is turned on for, System Protection creates a scheduled restore point only if no other restore points have been created in the last 7 days, and before significant system events such as a program or driver installation.
This tutorial 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.
It has been reported that some 3rd party disk defragmentation programs could also delete your restore points when used.
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 a listed disk that you want to create a restore point for, then select it. (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)
Noticed that I'm not getting the 12am System restore point, nor the significant driver update restore point (I installed the Windows 7 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?
System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD Athlon 64 3200+, Lenovo G560 i3 OS Windows 7 Ultimate, Ubuntu Motherboard Gigabyte K8T8000 Memory DDR 2Gb (!) Graphics Card 6600GT Monitor(s) Displays MultiMonitor (2) LCD
Mouse Logitech MX620 Cordless Hard Drives Old Seagate 75
Big Western Digital
Samsung 500Gb pulled out of an external drive and installed
Ext: Maxtor (Firewire), 1Gb Lacie (Samsung)
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.
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; 23 May 2009 at 12:33 AM..
Reason: update
System Manufacturer/Model Number AMD Athlon 64 3200+, Lenovo G560 i3 OS Windows 7 Ultimate, Ubuntu Motherboard Gigabyte K8T8000 Memory DDR 2Gb (!) Graphics Card 6600GT Monitor(s) Displays MultiMonitor (2) LCD
Mouse Logitech MX620 Cordless Hard Drives Old Seagate 75
Big Western Digital
Samsung 500Gb pulled out of an external drive and installed
Ext: Maxtor (Firewire), 1Gb Lacie (Samsung)
All this seems to be very unnecessary.
Why cant Windows 7 just auto create restore points similar to XP instead of all of us go thru all this modification?
I am dual booting XP and Windows 7 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 Windows 7?
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??
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.
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 Windows 7 get deleted. Each time I boot to Windows 7 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 Windows 7.
update
Just found the How-to on stopping XP from deleting Vista/Windows 7 restore points.
Thanks
I guess my point is seems like alot of work. MS is trying to make Windows 7 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.
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Now I know.
Quote: Originally Posted by Brink 
Windows 7 system restore point. Can't create / restore . 
