System restore or not?

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Vic Baron

If System Restore is turned off, can you manually save a restore point?

Or, is there a way to create a restore point without having Vista do them
automatically?
 
Vic Baron said:
If System Restore is turned off, can you manually save a restore point?

Or, is there a way to create a restore point without having Vista do them
automatically?

If System Restore is turned off, it's off, that's it . . . no auto-saves . .
.. no manual saves . . . no restore points . . . even the ones that were
created before you turned it off are now gone.

Mic
 
Hi Vic--

If SR is off you can't do manual saving. Given space, you can always add
manual restore points. Vista is going to add them automatically, but you
can tweak how often in the registry.

You cannot stop SR from automatically making restore points. Here is a
question and answer similar to that from the Beta Vista SR Chat 6/19/06:

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/pages/447166.aspx

Is it possible to to set a "just installed" restore point.

This is automatically done whenever a program or driver or update is
installed. Certainly you can create one manually if you don't trust those.
These automatically created restorepoints do have automatically created
names. You cannot change those.

--> can i update this with specific or personalized settings.

If you create one manually you can give it a name. Not more, not less.

Good luck,

CH
 
But if you turn it on You can make a manual restore point by opening the
application.
peter
 
Hi Vic,

When System Restore is turned off, all restore points or shadow copies are
deleted, and no new ones will be created. Previous Versions are also deleted.

System Restore in Windows Vista:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/vista.html

In Vista, restore points can be created manually, along with the automatic
restore points. The automatic feature cannot be turned off.

What was the reason for turning System Restore off?

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
 
Hi,

Number one is false. Settings made to this key in Vista are ignored.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore

These keys are there for backwards compatibility with some XP scripts.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
 
I've the default Frequency of Automatic System Restore Point (1 day) but I
do not see a restore point every day, I have restore points just during the
last upgrades and the manually created. How is that?
Ciao,
Riccardo
 
brink said:
Hi Bert,

I will defer to you because you are the expert for System Restore. Do
you have a solution that would work for this in Vista? I see this exact
same solution all over the net for Vista. Are we all mistaken?

Thank you,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

This information was posted by Jill Zoeller [MSFT] in April.
http://snipurl.com/1q2z9

To test the effects of the registry setting, In Vista I set RPGlobalInterval
to 15 minutes, (900) and no new restore points are being created.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
 
brink said:
Hi Bert,

I will defer to you because you are the expert for System Restore. Do
you have a solution that would work for this in Vista? I see this exact
same solution all over the net for Vista. Are we all mistaken?

Thank you,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

For the last few days now I have had the registry key in question set to
create a restore point every 15 minutes in Vista. System Restore show only
one restore point per day being created. So yes, everyone is mistaken.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
 
brink said:
Bert,

Thank you for taking the time to test and respond with an answer to
this. I am going to remove this tip from the site since it is of no
help in Vista. I do not wish to spread false hope or solutions.

Thank you again,
Shawn

You're welcome Shawn.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
 
Fast-Eddie said:
It's been a while since the last post,
Any new insights to alter the frequency of Automatic Restore Points?


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Fast-Eddie,

Click on the Start orb and start typing Task Scheduler, click on Task
Scheduler at the top of the start menu and then click on Continue on the UAC
prompt. Once in Task Scheduler go to the left pane and click on the arrow to
the left of Task Scheduler Library. Click on the arrow to the left of
Microsoft and then click on the arrow to the left of Windows. Select System
Restore and then click on the Triggers tab. You will see one or more entries
that determine when System Restore will run. You can then click on
Properties in the right pane of the window. Once in the Properties window
click on the Triggers tab and then click on the New button. In the New
Trigger window, at the top of the window to the right of "Begin the task"
click on the drop down menu and select the triggers you desire.
You can now schedule as many System Restores as you wish under various
circumstances. I hope this helps you.

C.B.
 
Fast-Eddie said:
Brilliant, I'll give it a shot.
Thanks very much CB.


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You're welcome.

C.B.
 
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