Automatically create restore points in Windows 7

[sujay]

Windows XP and Windows Vista, is designed to create a restore point every 24 hours irrespective of whether any system changes occurred during this period. System Restore in Windows Vista creates a checkpoint every 24 hours if no other restore points were created that day. System Restore in Windows XP creates a checkpoint every 24 hours of absolute time. These auto-restore points ensures that you have at least one snapshot of the system for each day. This vital feature, was removed in Windows 7.
System Restore in Windows 7 creates a scheduled restore point only if no other restore points have been created in the last 7 days. This means you have 7 long days without a restore point. If your computer gets attacked by malware and becomes unstable you will have to roll back the changes to a point 7 days earlier. Depending on the amount of space you have allocated to system restore, you might get a couple of restore points spaced 7 days apart, provided there were no in-between restore points created during software/update install.

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[INDRANIL]

Thanks for the useful share sujay bro .

[Ande]

Good share.
Also, The Windows Club, http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ has a utility, System Restore manager, that lets you view restore points, take a restore point, with choice of drive, and pick a restore point to restart at.
I scheduled this to run every day to take a restore point and use it before adding any software/drivers.
Go to http://www.thewindowsclub.com/system...ndows-released for the system restore manager.
Scan through the windows club downloads, and you'll find a raft of tips & tricks, utilities and pointers to programs to make your life easier.
I'm not affiliated with them, but I am a member (free).

[sujay]

Thank you Ande... I am aware of that... I also used that...

[johnshaw1917]

Hi sujay, I have a question for you. If a person doesn't make any changes to their computer, then would a bunch of more recent restore points be of any benefit? I try to conserve HDD space by only creating new restore points before I make any changes, but I'm wondering if I should reconsider that.

[sujay]

Hi sujay, I have a question for you. If a person doesn't make any changes to their computer, then would a bunch of more recent restore points be of any benefit? I try to conserve HDD space by only creating new restore points before I make any changes, but I'm wondering if I should reconsider that.

Hi john... Actually I forgot to create restore points manually..
I think this will answer your question..

[JayCub]

No benefit John just keep the last restore point and reduce the size of the restore point as sometimes by default it is set to high, i would keep doing what you are doing John or create a disc image with incremental back ups, better again than system restore .. my two cents worth John

[Boyfriend]

Thanks sujay for tutorial. Very good share

[johnshaw1917]

@ sujay That's the same setting I use for system restore, except I allow up to 5%. Creating a new restore point before making changes to my system has become second nature for me. And with Windows 7, it automatically does that, whenever it installs upgrades.

@Jay Creating system images on a regular basis is a "good thing" IMHO! It has saved my bum more times than I care to admit!

[Ande]

Thank you Ande... I am aware of that... I also used that...

It is very useful for taking recovery points on a different disk, and can be scheduled.