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

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[Brink]

Hello Metrotek,

It sounds like your lnk (shortcuts) and/or VBS file extensions may have the wrong associations set for them. Download and merge both the lnk (LNK) and vbs downloads in the tutorial below to see if the shortcuts will work afterwards.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/233243-default-file-type-associations-restore.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[Metrotek]

I used to live in Austin...I saw that Texas, USA.

I cut and pasted the entire extracted folder into c:\program files, rebooted and nothing? You can see the folder in the program files window/list [I dont have a list, I have icons]
The file association tool is cool; I'm keeping that. I had .reg problems the other day and had to repair it manually.
What I did earlier is just make a shortcut to the backup and restore center, it's good enough.

Sorry, it does work now, I just hadn't tried the icon. I moved it out into a Microsoft utilitities folder on my drop down tool bar and sure enough, bingo it does just what you said it would. :D
I wish I knew how to make all of the cool bells and whistles that you do. I used to be an engineer before I became terminally ill so I love toys. If I could do what you do, there wouldn't even be anywhere remaining for a website to open.
Thank you very much for your assistance and patience.

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome Metrotek. I'm happy to hear that it's working for you now.

 

[Brink]

Tutorial updated.