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How To Create A System Restore Point in Windows 10 With A Simple Double-Click PDF
How To Create A System Restore Point in Windows 10 With A Simple Double-Click PDF
March 2, 2016
Windows 10 tip In this guide, we'll show you the quickest way to create a System Restore
Point on your Windows 10 PC with a simple script.
Mauro Huculak
2 Mar 2016
Windows 10 ships with many recovery features that can help you to fix most problems you
may come across. One of these functions includes System Restore Point, which allows you
to take your PC back to a point in time where everything correctly worked if there are
problems due to a recently installed update, driver, or app.
Typically the operating system will create a new restore point before changes are made to
your computer, and you can also create restore points manually. However, in this Windows
10 guide, we'll walk you through the steps to create a desktop shortcut with a special script,
which it'll allow you to create new restore points with a simple double-click.
1. Open the Start menu, do a search for Create a restore point, and press Enter.
2. On System Protection, under Protections Settings, verify whether the setting is turned
On or Off. If the system drive's protection is On, then no further actions are required,
and you can jump to "How to create a System Restore Point shortcut script" below.
If it's the system protection is Off, select your PC system drive, and click the
Configure button.
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2. On the Create Shortcut wizard, type the this command:
Note: The command basically tells the operating system to open Command Prompt
and use Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool to create
a system restore point of your Windows 10 PC.
Now the next time you're about to install a new app, driver, or you're planning to modify
anything on your PC, you can quickly double-click the shortcut to create a new restore
point, instead of going through a number of other steps.
Note that we're focusing this guide for Windows 10, but these steps will also work on
Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 PCs. Also, it's important to point out that on Windows 8.1 and
newer versions, the script will run, but it won't create a new restore point if there are earlier
points created in the past 24 hours. If this is the case, you'll need to delete previous restore
points for the script to work:
1. Open the Start menu, do a search for Create a restore point, and press Enter.
2. Select the hard disk you want to create a new restore point.
3. Click the Configure button.
4. Click the Delete button.
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More on Windows 10
For more tips, coverage, and answers on Windows 10, you can visit the following
resources:
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