Solved Questions about System Restore options

pdsnickles · May 4, 2009

First off, when I go to Create a Restore Point, it always takes the system about 20-40 seconds before it gives me what I want which is C drive checked in the list to create a restore point on. It shows me all my USB hard drives and other partitions, none of which I ever want to choose to create a restore point on.

Is there a way to choose to have only the C drive come up on this list of possible drives for restore points? (I assume this would be quicker, since it would not have to find all those other drives/partitions before showing me the C drive.)

Secondly, since I only have an 83gig partition for C drive with Vista (64-bit Home Premium) and programs using 43 gigs of that; so how much space do I really need for System Restore points? I know there is a page here on this forum somewhere for going into the system via Command and changing the amount of space allotted for System Restore. Should I leave the Default allotted space or should I change it to a smaller amount? (My computer came shipped with a 700+ gig C drive but I shrank it to 83gigs and the rest is for just archiving, with a special partition for ripping and burning and decoding files.)

Third: Where are the System Restore point files or whatever they are stored?

Fourth: Aside from manually creating a Restore Point via System Protection, is there a way I can make it create a Restore Point once a day at a particular time? I think it creates one at startup every day (I'm not sure, but I seem to recall that it does this), but is there a way to tell it, say, to create one every day at 5pm, or something like that in addition to creating one at start up? Or would that require too much disk space alloted to it? (I have a big hard drive, but I'd just as soon not junk it up with an excessive amount of System Restore space.)

Thanks for your feedback.

Brink · May 4, 2009

Hello Pdsnickles,

Answers in-line.

First off, when I go to Create a Restore Point, it always takes the system about 20-40 seconds before it gives me what I want which is C drive checked in the list to create a restore point on. It shows me all my USB hard drives and other partitions, none of which I ever want to choose to create a restore point on.

Is there a way to choose to have only the C drive come up on this list of possible drives for restore points? (I assume this would be quicker, since it would not have to find all those other drives/partitions before showing me the C drive.)

This tutorial will show you how to create a shortcut to make creating restore points easy to do.

Secondly, since I only have an 83gig partition for C drive with Vista (64-bit Home Premium) and programs using 43 gigs of that; so how much space do I really need for System Restore points? I know there is a page here on this forum somewhere for going into the system via Command and changing the amount of space allotted for System Restore. Should I leave the Default allotted space or should I change it to a smaller amount? (My computer came shipped with a 700+ gig C drive but I shrank it to 83gigs and the rest is for just archiving, with a special partition for ripping and burning and decoding files.)

It is up to you for how much space you want to have for restore points, but the less space you have, the less restore points you will have available to go back to. If you keep good backups, then you may not need to have as many restore points stored.

Third: Where are the System Restore point files or whatever they are stored?

The restore points are part of shadow copy and cannot be viewed.

Fourth: Aside from manually creating a Restore Point via System Protection, is there a way I can make it create a Restore Point once a day at a particular time? I think it creates one at startup every day (I'm not sure, but I seem to recall that it does this), but is there a way to tell it, say, to create one every day at 5pm, or something like that in addition to creating one at start up? Or would that require too much disk space alloted to it? (I have a big hard drive, but I'd just as soon not junk it up with an excessive amount of System Restore space.)

You can use the shortcut above to manually create restore points as needed, but you can change the settings in Task Scheduler using the tutorial below to how often you would like to have automatic restore points created.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/1...-change-automatic-restore-point-schedule.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

stew2 · May 4, 2009

I only have C: drive for system restore checked and it takes about 3 seconds to show me. I dont know whats wrong with yours sorry.

But you can create system restore points automatically by clicking the vista start orb and typing in the search bar Task Scheduler then hit enter. Then open the Task Schedular Library then Microsoft then Windows and finally click on System Restore

There you can create your own, for example my system restore is set to only make a restore point at 12:00 every Sunday.

EDIT: Brinks to fast lol

Brink · May 4, 2009

Lol.

pdsnickles · May 5, 2009

Thanks guys, that's exactly what I need...
[My next step is trying to fix my folder views using Brink's tutorial on that.
I must say, "Vista is sure not much of an improvement over XP in my humble opinion. This folder view thing is just ridiculous, that it wasn't fixed at the OS level, after so many people had the same problem with XP." ] [I just had to get that off my chest...]

Brink · May 5, 2009

You're welcome Pdsnickles. I hope that the .reg download in that tutorial can help you with yout folder view issue to.

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