WhiteTea said:
I increased the size used by Restore to have more points to choose
from.
What I would like is for an automated way to:
1. To make a restore point.
2. Do it at a user selectable interval (I did find a registry setting
for this.)
3. Have a user selectable number of restore points with older ones
replaced by the most recent.
Andy
If you had taken the time to read through Bert Kinney's excellent web
site to which I directed you earlier, you would have found answers to
all of your questions.
With respect to #1 and #2, see
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srscripts.html
and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295299
With respect to #3, please re-read the description of how System Restore
works. Briefly, SR fills up the allocated space with restore points.
When the allocation limit is reached, the oldest restore points are
purged in order to make room for new ones. You can't set a maximum
*number* of restore points, because the *size* of each restore point
varies. Be aware than if you create your own restore points, either
manually or by some script, the allocated space will also be filled up
by the automatically-created restore points and by restore points
created by application installers and the like.
Note that there is very little benefit to having restore points from
more than a week or two in the past because of the likelihood of
intervening changes to the system that are not restored by System Restore.