Comments on: Change How Often System Restore Creates Restore Points in Windows Vista

By: magic

magic — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:56:44 +0000

I have set the task scheduler to create a system restore point daily. I am able to view the history thru the task scheduler; however, when I want to restore to a previous point only the current day’s restore points are displayed.

How can I get more restore point options?

Thanks.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:55:50 +0000

I have understand “how the system restore work”? but as we set a restore point, the question is; Can system restore remove my recent installed program?

cheers

By: Mike McNamara

Mike McNamara — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:14:30 +0000

Great improvement in Vista. As well as the scheduled events I always make one before major s/w installs along side Registry Exports/backups.

However, it does suck up lots of space on the hard drive, so I regularly clean up once a week, getting some 5/7GB of space back each time. It’s a shame getting space back has to be done manaully.

By: Akshay

Akshay — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:55:39 +0000

Providing a link from my blog to this page. It will prove very useful for Vista users.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:40:03 +0000

After trying and trying to get system restore to create automatic points on my home basic laptop I gave up, downloaded a script which I’ve setup on task scheduler to run once a day.

By: techbrian

techbrian — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:08:09 +0000

Sweet, great article.

System restore has saved me dozens of times, and I always recommend it to my clients. It almost always seems to fix the problem when nothing else does.

By: jack

jack — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:06:15 +0000

Very impressive! I had no idea there were so many options in the task manager. You should write up some more about setting up tasks.

By: whoisvaibhav

whoisvaibhav — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:03:10 +0000

I used to be a Restore function user (when I first discovered it in XP), but after about 6 months of never using it, I just turned it off. Never needed it since. I guess I have been lucky…

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:29:13 +0000

Another method for changing the system restore frequency would be to use this small tool:
http://www.vista4beginners.com/CSRF