System Restore Point Creation?

[Smith]

I went to use System Restore the other day and my newest point was over a
week old. I guess I don't stay on the computer long enough to get more
system checkpoints? Anyway, I'd like my System Restore to create a restore
point every time I turn on my machine. I looked around, found a script to
run in Task Manager and tried that, it wouldn't work, no point was created
on boot. I looked around in settings on my machine as well but, didn't find
anything to change the frequency of points created, is there another way
around it, a way to force it to create the points? I know I can manually
create them, but doing that would get annoying.

Thanks.

 

[Code-Curious Mom]

The frequency setting for this is in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\RPGlobalInterval
The value is in seconds and defaults to 24hours.

 

[Smith]

Thanks, I was hoping there was something like that.

Smith

 

[Code-Curious Mom]

You're welcome, hope that gets it creating them more often at least.

 

[Ron Martell]

Thanks, I was hoping there was something like that.

Smith

Had the registry value actually been changed from the default setting
of 86400 seconds (= 24 hours)?

If not then there is something else amiss with your System Restore and
you need to check it out further.

See MVP Bert Kinney's System Restore pages:
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html especially the section on "Auto
Create Fails".

Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

 

[frodo]

in order for sys restore to make an automatic "checkpoint" your system
needs to "go idle" for a while; if you "turn_on...work...turn_off" then it
won't get a chance to run. you can force idle processing to take place
manually by executing the following command line:

%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks

note it'll trigger other things besides sys restore.

also, sys restore will only make a checkpoint as often as that reg setting
you were already told about.

here's a link that'll tell ya a lot more, and it has a vbs script for
creating a new restore point (which is what you originally asked for!),
look near the bottom:

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_restore.htm

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

At the link below you will find two exe files that will create a restore
point. One will display a message confirming a restore point was created
and the other will not. Place either of there files into the Startup
folder to create a restore point each time the system is started, or
restarted. The can also be placed in Task Scheduler.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_sysrestorepoint.htm