Windows 10: How to create System Restore shortcut in Windows 10

Windows 10 operating system ships with a nifty feature called System Protection. It is a feature that allows you to perform a system restore where you select an earlier point in time, called a system restore point that your system reverts to in the event your PC isn’t working well and you recently installed an app, driver, or update. In this post, we will walk you through the process of creating a desktop shortcut to open System Restore or Protection in Windows 10.

Windows automatically maintains restore points such that the oldest ones are automatically deleted to make room for recent ones. This maintenance is controlled by limiting the space they occupy to between 3% and 5% (to a maximum of 10 GB) of your disk. (The percentage is set automatically by Windows, depending on the size of your hard drive.)

Restore points are automatically created before any of the following events:

• A “restore-compliant” application installation.
• The installation of an automatic Windows update.
• A user-initiated system restore.

Create System Restore shortcut




To manually create a desktop shortcut for System Protection in Windows 10, do the following:

• Right-click or press and hold on an empty area on your desktop.
• From the context menu, click New > Shortcut.
• In the Create Shortcut window that opens, copy and paste the environment variable below into the Type the location of this item field.

%windir%\System32\SystemPropertiesProtection.exe

• Click Next.
• Type System Protection (or any other name you want) in the Type a name for this shortcut field.
• Click the Finish button.

Now, you can Pin to Taskbar or Start Menu, add to All apps, add to Quick Launch, assign a keyboard shortcut to, or move this shortcut to where you like for easy and quick access.



Alternatively, you can use the portable freeware Quick Restore Maker – a smart 1-click freeware to create a System Restore Point in Windows 10.

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Create System Restore Point shortcut in Windows 10  


lumbco,

That's the correct shortcut to use with the steps in METHOD TWO below for creating a scheduled restore point.

System Restore Point : Create at System Startup - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

Create System Restore Point shortcut in Windows 10  


Hello lumbco, and welcome to Ten Forums.

Double check starting at the post below to make sure that you used that steps in the tutorial in the link below, but used the instant restore point shortcut here instead.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...tml#post804868

 

Create System Restore Point shortcut in Windows 10


I finally got to this and opted for the third download with prompt for description and confirmation message popups. When going to right click or double click on the download to extract the files note this will see a brand new folder created where you need to go int and right click on the vbs file itsefl to select the "create shortcut" option and drag that onto the desktop.





You won't be able to pin the shortcut or vsb file itself to either the task bar or Start tile area unfortunately. Here I simply drag the shortcut into a folder used for a Quick Bar toolbar option for seeing a jump list from the main task bar itself along with shortcuts for a number of other system functions as well. But as usual the vbs file works reliably!