Vista - System restore not creating daily points

Hello everyone -

I have searched elsewhere in vain for an answer to this problem with due diligence, so now I turn to this august body...

I have an HP Paviliion laptop with Vista Home Premium (original, non-SP1) on a 160 GB HD. I decided to inspect my System Restore points for the first time since purchasing this system, and was suprised to discover that there were no restore points listed.

Not being an expert on Vista's implementation of System Restore, I did some research on line and found the following:

- no "view older than 5 day" button
- 7 gigs available to shadow copies, 300 MB allocated, 46 MB used
- I can create points manually
- the Task Scheduler has an entry to run TS daily @ 12:00 AM
- perusal of Event View entries shows that TS seems to run at the scheduled time, but...no points

Thanks in advance for any help...

Mike

System restore doesn't create daily restore points as far as I know.

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Hi,

You might like to check out this excellent tutorial , see Step 12

System Restore Task - Change Automatic Restore Point Schedule

You might check what points you have , eg if you have one for yesterday , the day before etc. it may be deleting the old ones before the normal default time - as I recall the default setting for this is 90 days.

Hope it helps

SIW2

I read the article that you linked to, and verified that there is a daily scheduled system restore event. I checked the system event viewer, and it shows that System Restore is being invoked.

There are -no- restore points visible, except for a test point that I created manually. None. There is only 46 MB used in restore point storage, so I doubt that they are hidden.

Mike