Vista Tutorial - System Restore Task - Change Automatic Restore Point Schedule

lol. thanks for the fast reply again o-o

i've reinstalled vista a few times within the last week. (4+?)


and most of mai drivers uninstall themselves when i install vista.

same with bennys' problem.

how can i select last month restore point instead of last 5 days?

thanks..

Hello IonVista, and welcome to Vista Forums.

This is not the same issue Benny was having though. Benny wanted to know how to set the amount of days for the task to save them instead.

To select an older restore point to use to do a System Restore, you would select the "Older than 5 days...." option (if available) to see them. From there, you would select the restore point with the date that you wanted. Keep in mind though that restore points are only store up to 90 days, and when the max storage space has ran out the older restore points will be deleted to make room for the new one.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

then how can i select the restore point that was made more than 1 week ago?

anyway thanks for the fast reply...

If the option is not there from my post above, then it may have been deleted and you will not be able to select it.

I setup the Task Scheduler according to your tutorial to create a couple of restore points each day. The Task Scheduler History tab tells me that the actions are being carried out as scheduled. However, when I check the System Restore listing of restore points that have been created, usually only one restore point each day is recorded there.

I have looked at all the options in the Task Scheduler to ensure that everything is enabled properly and all the Triggers are present and all looks good, and as I mentioned, the Task Scheduler History tab shows the scheduled actions are being carried out.

So, I'm curious, why am I not seeing all of the scheduled Restore Points in System Restore?

Hell Travelin, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Using these tasks, a system restore point will only be created when the task is scheduled if Vista detects a change in your system.

However, you can create a new task to run a program instead for when you like. The program can be the Create Instant Restore Point shortcut. It will create a new restore point everytime it runs, no matter if there was a change or not to your system.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hello Shawn,

Thanks for the explanation. I assumed that using the Task Scheduler to create Restore Points would be the equivalent of manually creating a restore point. If I understand your reply correctly, the Task Scheduler will not actually create the restore point unless there is a change to the system, but, won't this happen after the change to the system, not before?

Paul

If you create a new task using the shortcut above, then it is the same as creating a restore point manually, but only having it done automatically for you instead by the new task.

The default System Restore tasks only create a restore point if it detects a change when that task runs at it's scheduled time. Yes, the change would have had to happen before the default tasks runs for it to create the restore point though.

Thanks, puzzling though. I thought the point of using the Task Scheduler to create restore points is to have restore points created on a schedule whether or not there have been changes to the system.

I am working on the shortcut you suggested, but my preference is to have the Task Scheduler automatically create restore points for me on a set schedule even if there are no changes to the system. From your reply, I guess that's not possible.



Thanks, Paul