Windows 10: Create System Restore Point in Windows 10

How to: Create System Restore Point in Windows 10

How to Create a System Restore Point in Windows 10


system restore that takes your PC back to an earlier point in time, called a system restore point. This can be handy if your PC isn't working well and you recently installed an app, driver, or update.

Each restore point contains the necessary information needed to restore the system to the chosen state. Restore points are automatically generated when you install a new app, driver, or Windows update, and generated when you Restoring wont affect your personal files in your %UserProfile% folder, but it will remove apps, drivers, and updates installed after the restore point was created.

This tutorial will show how to create a restore point manually at any time in Windows 10.

You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to create a restore point.

When you create a restore point, it will create a restore point for all drives that you have system protection turned on.

If you have Windows booted in Safe Mode, then you will not be able to create a restore point.

Restore points are not meant to take the place of backups and system images. Instead it is only an extra method of recovery to have handy as needed. Be sure to always keep updated backups and system images to be safe.

Restore points are stored in the hidden protected OS System Volume Information folder in the root directory of each drive you have system protection turned on.

Restore points are saved until the disk space System Restore reserves is filled up. As new restore points are created afterwards, old ones are automatically deleted.

If you turn off system protection (the feature that creates restore points) on a disk, all restore points are deleted from that disk.

When you get a new large or feature update for Windows 10, all restore points will automatically get deleted in the process of the update since the old restore points will be incompatible with the new Windows Update.



Contents

• Option One: To Create a System Restore Point in Control Panel
• Option Two: To Create a System Restore Point in PowerShell

OPTION ONE [/i] To Create a System Restore Point in Control Panel
1 Do step 2 or step 3 below for how you would like to open System.

2 Open the step 4 below.

3 Open the step 5 below. (see screenshot below)



4 Click/tap on the System protection link on the left side. (see screenshot below)



5 If prompted by UAC, click/tap on Yes.

6 Make sure that you have system protection turned on for all drives that you want included in the restore point.

7 When ready to create a restore point, click/tap on the Create button. (see screenshot below)



8 Type a description you want to help you identify the restore point. The current date and time are added automatically. Click/tap on Create when finished. (see screenshot below)



9 Windows System Protection will now create a restore point. (see screenshot below)



10 When successfully created, click/tap on Close. (see screenshot below)

11 You can now close the System Properties window if you like. (see screenshot below step 7)





OPTION TWO [/i] To Create a System Restore Point in PowerShell
To see more usage options for the Checkpoint-Computer command in PowerShell, see: Checkpoint-Computer | Microsoft Docs

By default, you will only be able to create a system restore point once every 1440 minutes (24 hours) using this option unless you change the SystemRestorePointCreationFrequency DWORD to how often you want instead. 0 minutes will allow you to always be able to create a system restore point without any time limit.





1 Open an elevated PowerShell.

2 Enter the command below into the elevated PowerShell, and press Enter. (see screenshots below)
Checkpoint-Computer -Description "Your Description" -RestorePointType "Type"

Substitute Your Description in the command above with any description (ex: "MyRestorePoint") you want for the system restore point.

Substitute Type in the command above with a parameter in the table below that best specifies the type of restore point.


[table][tr][td]Parameter to use in command[/td] [td]Type[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]APPLICATION_INSTALL[/td] [td]Install[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]APPLICATION_UNINSTALL[/td] [td]Uninstall[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]DEVICE_DRIVER_INSTALL[/td] [td]Install[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]MODIFY_SETTINGS[/td] [td]System[/td] [/tr] [/table]





3 When finished, you can close the elevated PowerShell window if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Enable or Disable System Restore in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10
• How to Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in Windows 10
• How to Do a System Restore of Windows 10
• How to Undo a System Restore in Windows 10
• How to Add a Create Restore Point Context Menu in Windows 10
• How to Make a 'Create System Restore Point' Shortcut in Windows 10
• How to Change System Protection Maximum Storage Size for Drive in Windows 10
• How to Delete System Restore Points in Windows 10
• How to Create System Protection shortcut in Windows 10
• How to Automatically Create System Restore Point at Startup in Windows 10
• How to Automatically Create System Restore Point on Schedule in Windows 10
• How to Change System Restore Point Creation Frequency in Windows 10
• How to Add System Protection Context Menu in Windows 10
• How to See List of All Available System Restore Points in Windows

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Cannot create System restore point in Win 10

The big issue is that Apple has dropped Boot Camp support for Windows 10 on certain Macs, one of them being 2010 and earlier Mac Pro's even though the hardware has no problem running Windows 10, they will how ever support their latest, the black waste basket
they call a Pro Macintosh.

I myself have a 2009 Mac Pro, upgraded with 2010 firmware, Intel Xeon W3680 6 core, and the ram that runs with it, it does suck that Apple has dropped support on one of there best Mac's they ever made, so unless somebody comes up with the updated drivers
that are causing the problem we're **** out of luck for being able to access Mac OS drives and be able to revert back from installs that break Windows OS, including Windows itself.

Has anybody tried to extract the latest Boot Camp 5.1.5640 drivers that are causing the issue to support Windows 10 on the newer Mac's, because that would be one way to see if that might solve the issue, I have tried to run setup of the latest Boot Camp,
but all I get is something like my Hardware is not compatible and it won't install.

 

Cannot create System restore point in Win 10

Thanks for you help, but the issue is I have the latest Boot Camp Drivers made for my 2009 Mac Pro Intel TOWER.

I have installed 5.1.5621 for my system already.

Windows 10 says the Hard Drive is UFS so even though was FORMATED BY WINDOWS 10 it refuses to use the drive

for Restore or even backups points.

I have to say Windows 10 is the most USER UNFRIENDLY OS I have ever seen produced, matter of fact it is USER HOSTILE at best in many respects.

The hilarious part is Linux and OS X work fine with Windows 10, but Microsoft Windows 10 is hostile to them.

 

Hehehe. Yeah, I have fun making them. *Smile

 

I've installed the script to 'force a new restore point', for windows 10, into my "Startup" folder and it's working great!
I get a new Restore Point every time I boot up the PC. (without any user intervention)

That's one of those things that a person should not have to even think about, like electricity, or the morning paper arriving at your door every morning. It just happens and when you need it..... it's there!

I screw things up and need a fresh restore point so often that I even put a shortcut to "Restore" on my desktop.


Thank you Shawn!

*Cool

 

You're most welcome Wayne. *Smile

 

for in cmd scripts:

Wmic.exe /Namespace:\\root\default Path SystemRestore Call CreateRestorePoint "%DATE%", 100, 7

for only ashadow copy you can use

Wmic.exe shadowcopy call create ClientAccessible,"C:\"

Cheers

 

For anyone who is interested, the run command for system restore is "rstrui" and for System Properties (Protection) is "systempropertiesprotection"

 

I am trying to create a restore point but it shows "Access denied. (0x80070005)"

 

Hello Chunnuhardy, *Smile

Is your account an administrator?

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html

 

I want a new Restore Point every time I boot up the PC. You say you've installed the script to 'force a new restore point', for windows 10, into your "Startup" folder and it's working great! That's wonderful. Now, I want that to work for me. Can you be more explicit. I'm pretty/very savvy on computers so if you give me a step by step procedure I won't have any problem. What is the script to 'force a new restore point'? Is that a cmd script? Do I copy that to a notepad text document and give it a particular extension? Then how do I put it into my/a startup folder. Give me a little more directions. Thank you.

 

Hello SERVANT22, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

If you like, you could be able use METHOD ONE in the tutorial below to automatically create a restore point at startup. With that many restore points being created that often, be sure to also increase the max storage amount for restore points to be able to have more available.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...m-startup.html