System Restore Point - Shortcut

How to Make a "Create System Restore Point" Shortcut in XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8​

   Information

This tutorial will provide you with a create a manual system restore point shortcut that will instantly create a restore point with an optional description and success message in XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.

   Note

Restore points contain information about registry settings and other system information that Windows uses. System Restore points do not include personal user files in the C:\Users\(user-name) folders.

This will work for 32 bit and 64 bit Vista. You must have System Restore and the services responsible enabled for this shortcut to work. If not you will get the error message below when you try to use the shortcut below. See: How to Disable or Enable System Restore in Vista

   Warning

• If you dual boot with Windows XP, then everytime you start in XP the System Restore Points and all except the most recent Complete PC Backup files in Vista get deleted.
• If you have missing restore points, then also see: System Restore "restore points" are missing or deleted

EXAMPLE: Create System Restore Point with description shortcut
NOTE: When you click on the Create System Restore Point shortcut, you will see this window. Just type in a name for the restore point, and click on OK to create the restore point.

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Here's How:

1. For how see updated tutorial here:

System Restore Point Shortcut - Windows 7 Forums




That's it,
Shawn

Related Tutorials

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• How to Turn System Restore On or Off in Vista
• How to Stop System Restore Points from being Deleted in Vista when Dual Booting with XP
• How to Restore Previous Versions of a File and Folder in Vista
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[TheShadow]

Thank you The Shadow for posting the script. I'm sure people will find it useful.

LOL, I make so many backups it's not even funny with all of the experimenting I do.

Shawn

Well, Shawn,
It looks like we're kind of in the same boat.
I have to rely on a Restore Point at least once every week to recover from some little Ooooops or another. Nothing would be worse than not having a good one when I need it.
For those really big "AwShuckz!", I can always fall back on my latest Ghost backup Image. A full restore of C: takes less than ten minutes and then everything is back up and running again, just as if nothing ever happened at all.

Once set up, getting a daily Restore point is absolutely seamless.
Like my daily cleanup batch file..... I never even think about it.
It's just there, every time I reboot, getting rid of the junk that windows saved in the last session.
It's sort of like FREE Daily maid service!

I have some customers that wouldn't do their weekly maintenance or get program updates if you paid them or beat them with a willow switch.
But with the computer programmed to do auto-restore points, Auto-Cleanup and Auto Updates to AVG every day, the computers stay pretty much clean and safe.
As good as can be expected anyway.

The new AVG 8.0 incorporates so much more protection than previous versions, it's not necessary to have several active scanners running all the time. I'm updating my customers to ver. 8.0 as fast as I can.

Thanks again for a great forum.
The Shadow

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Brink.

As you may recall a few weeks ago we discussed a script someone
else wrote and this excellent tutorial written by you.
Since then I have had time to 'experiment' with both of them.
I find yours far and away the better script. I like the option
to add a "Restore Point Name" in yours that the other one lacked.
I also added the script to the "Start Menu", "Startup Folder" this takes
care of this problem http://www.vistax64.com/general-discussion/147611-create-task.html for me.

Thanks Shawn.



Later Ted

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Ted. I'm happy to hear that it solved your problem from the other link.

Shawn

 

[William Dempsey]

Awesome!!!! Thanks :D Skill Level? AI would be 0...lol

 

[Brink]

LOL, you're welcome William, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

 

[staghorn99]

Shawn, you're THE BOMB! I'm not that mechanically inclined but with your great instructions even I was able to create the system restore shortcut and it works great! Thanks a bunch!
Carl

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Carl, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

 

[mrgcav]

Good shortcut but I want to have a system properties shortcut.

 

[Brink]

Hello mrgcav, and welcome to Vista Forums.

You can right click on a blank area of the desketop and click on New and Shortcut. Use C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe Shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL Sysdm.cpl,,4 for the location, and whatever you like for a name.

This will open System Properties with the System Protection tab open.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[f1charlie]

Just added your useful shortcut to my desktop. I assume it only generates a restore point for those disks which are selected if you take the long way round?

Also, is there any way of adding a confirmation when the restore point has been successfully created?

 

[Brink]

Hello Charlie,

Yep, it is the same as hitting the Create restore point button in the long way round System Protection window for the selected drives.

I'll look into creating a success prompt.

 

[f1charlie]

Thanks Brink. Keep up the good work!

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Charlie.

Shawn

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Brink....

I just wanted to say thank you for the "Instant Restore Point" I added it to the start menu, startup file to resolve the old issue I had with no automatic restore points being created.

Thanks Shawn, you are appreciated!















Later Ted

 

[Brink]

You're welcome Ted.

 

[dawgar]

Thanks for the helpful shortcut it works great, I do have one issue that may easily be solved. I wanted to move the icon from the desktop and place it in my custom start menu along with other system related shortcuts I moved there. It works at that point but when I remove the Icon from the desktop, then try to run the restore by clicking on the icon in the start menu, I get
"the item you selected is unavailable. It might have been moved, renamed, or removed. Do you want to remove it from the list?"
When I put the Icon back on the desktop it works from either location. It seems to require the desktop Icon in order to work. Its not a huge issue but rather a curiosity as to why. Either way thanks so much because it does work great!

 

[Brink]

Hello Dawgar, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It sounds like you may be creating a shortcut from the shortcut instead of copying or moving the shortcut to the hidden C:\Users\(User-Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs folder to be placed in the Start Menu.

If you create a shortcut from a shortcut and delete or move the original shortcut, then the other one will no longer work since it's target (original shorcut) is no longer there.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[dawgar]

wow...hindsight is most definately 20/20. Thats exactly what I was doing but for some reason I had a mental block. Thanks so much for your help it works great.

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome Dawger.

 

[Metrotek]

This doesn't work. When I click on the shortcut icon all I get is Notepad opening with the script. :huh: