Windows 10: Scheduling System Restore Point Creation

Hi. Thank you for the response.

Yes.

Yes. (I browsed to it.)

Yes.

Yes. The task "runs", but no restore point is created (ie. identical result to the scheduled run).

I've tried this. Wordpad appears under Task Manager, but does not open a window.

 

Hi, that's strange. I've just set up a basic task launching wordpad.exe, and a normal window appears.
If you can find another scheduled task you can run manually and then see the result, try it..
Noted your task is not being run hidden.

Here are my schedule settings.

 

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The difference is the "run whether user is logged on or not" setting. This means it will not open a window but run task as a service. That being so both are acting correctly (for wordpad).

Don't know why the script wouldn't work from task scheduler. You unblocked it right?

 

Thank you for the postings, dalchina and halasz.

Yes, I did unblock it.

I hadn't realised that "run whether user is logged on or not" setting would cause the program to runs as service, and not open a window. I've therefore changed the setting for both Wordpad and the script. Wordpad now opens, but when Task Scheduler tries to run the script, the message "How do you want to open this file?" appears. Is the problem that Task Scheduler, on my PC, doesn't know how to run a script?

 

What do you get if you right click on the script and select open with? Something like this?

 

No, there is no default program, and Microsoft Windows Based Script Host does not appear.
Is wscript.exe the program for Microsoft Windows Based Script Host? I've searched the Windows volume, and the program appears in 2 different folders:




Is this something that I need to install?

 

You shouldn't have to install it as far as I know. I also have it in System32 and SysWOW64 directories.

As a workaround you could make a batch file Something.bat and put the line cscript /nologo C:\Path\to\file.vbs (assuming you have cscript.exe) and schedule that instead.

Why wscript is not there is another matter. You could try sfc /scannow and see if it replaces it. Otherwise you may have to do a repair install.

 

I tried both the suggestions that you have made, but without success. I have therefore performed a new complete installation of Windows, and that has rectified the issue.

Thank you very much for your support and suggestions.

 

Yes. I am amazed and annoyed that W10 Creators has removed the ability to create scheduled daily Restore Points. I used it before Creators, including in Windows 7 for years. I tried making a shortcut on the Desktop to make an anual RP (tenforums...... tutorials/64869) but it didn't work. Perhaps Microsoft has nobbled it for Creators.

I now have to search in the Start seach bar for Restore > Create a Restore Point which opens System Properties. Then press Create, type a name for the Restore Point when, at last, the Restore Point will be created!!!. Every day!! Microsoft is nibbling away at the freedom of users to use Windows in the way they want. Creators lacks other long-established routines.

At least Windows Backup and Restore ("Windows 7") will still backup files which are on the C drive, and a separate Windows Image, both in accordance with a time shedule. (But a Macrium Image is better, many people say, which I have, also set up to be made every day in a time schedule.

 

Hello @Stevekir, *Smile

You should be able to still create instant restore points without a custom description in the W10 CU.

Automatically Create System Restore Point on Schedule in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Backup Restore Tutorials

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