System Restore Point Creation?

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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.
 
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 said:
Thanks, I was hoping there was something like that.

Smith
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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
 
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
 
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
 
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