Creating restore points in your computer is essential as at any stage you may develop a glitch that requires you to take your system back to one of these restore points. Thankfully, there are ways in which you can make the system automatically generate restore points at regular intervals, including on a daily basis.
How to automatically create restore points daily
1. Go to ‘System Properties’ from your start menu and select the ‘System Protection’ tab
2. Here, if ‘System Restore’ is not turned on, then click on the ‘Configure’ button
3. In the new dialog box that has opened up, check the ‘Turn on system protection’ option
4. By clicking OK, you have turned ‘System Restore’ on. Now you need to set its frequency.
5. Go to ‘Administrative Tools’ by searching for it in the search box of start menu and double-click on the ‘Task Scheduler Option’
6. Now, in the ‘Task Scheduler’ window, click on the ‘Task Scheduler Library’ folder icon in the left-side pane and then click on the ‘Create Task’ option in the right-side pane
7. In the ‘Create Task’ box, type ‘Create Restore Points’ or something very similar in the ‘Name’ bar, then select ‘Run whether user is logged in or not’ option and check the ‘Run with highest privileges’ box as well
8. Now in the ‘Actions’ tab, click the ‘New’ button that will open a ‘New Action’ or ‘Edit Action’ window
9. In this, set ‘Action’ to ‘Start a program’ and type ‘powershell.exe’ in the box below ‘Program/script:’
10. Then write ‘-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Checkpoint-Computer -Description \"Restore Point (Automatic)\" -RestorePointType \"MODIFY_SETTINGS\"’" in front of ‘Add arguments (optional):’
11. Now select the ‘Trigger’ tab and click the ‘New’ button to open the ‘New Triggers’ box
12. Here, select the ‘Daily’ option. The ‘Start:’ would by default take the time at that moment and you don’t need to change that
13. In ‘Conditions’ tab now, uncheck the boxes with the options ‘Stop if the computer switches to battery power’ and ‘Start the task only if the computer is on AC power’
14. Another thing you need to do is go to the ‘Settings’ tab and select the option ‘Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed’
15. Click ‘OK’ and the system will ask you for your password. Once provided, a restore point would be created daily by the system.
It is critical to keep creating restore points at regular intervals to give greater security to your data and settings. While it sounds easy, very often people forget to do this and therefore are depended on the vagaries of the operating system for the creation of restore points.
So, if you have ignored creating restore points or have not been able to make time for it, do start now to give your data and files an extra layer of security.
How to automatically create restore points daily
1. Go to ‘System Properties’ from your start menu and select the ‘System Protection’ tab
2. Here, if ‘System Restore’ is not turned on, then click on the ‘Configure’ button
3. In the new dialog box that has opened up, check the ‘Turn on system protection’ option
4. By clicking OK, you have turned ‘System Restore’ on. Now you need to set its frequency.
5. Go to ‘Administrative Tools’ by searching for it in the search box of start menu and double-click on the ‘Task Scheduler Option’
6. Now, in the ‘Task Scheduler’ window, click on the ‘Task Scheduler Library’ folder icon in the left-side pane and then click on the ‘Create Task’ option in the right-side pane
7. In the ‘Create Task’ box, type ‘Create Restore Points’ or something very similar in the ‘Name’ bar, then select ‘Run whether user is logged in or not’ option and check the ‘Run with highest privileges’ box as well
8. Now in the ‘Actions’ tab, click the ‘New’ button that will open a ‘New Action’ or ‘Edit Action’ window
9. In this, set ‘Action’ to ‘Start a program’ and type ‘powershell.exe’ in the box below ‘Program/script:’
10. Then write ‘-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "Checkpoint-Computer -Description \"Restore Point (Automatic)\" -RestorePointType \"MODIFY_SETTINGS\"’" in front of ‘Add arguments (optional):’
11. Now select the ‘Trigger’ tab and click the ‘New’ button to open the ‘New Triggers’ box
12. Here, select the ‘Daily’ option. The ‘Start:’ would by default take the time at that moment and you don’t need to change that
13. In ‘Conditions’ tab now, uncheck the boxes with the options ‘Stop if the computer switches to battery power’ and ‘Start the task only if the computer is on AC power’
14. Another thing you need to do is go to the ‘Settings’ tab and select the option ‘Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed’
15. Click ‘OK’ and the system will ask you for your password. Once provided, a restore point would be created daily by the system.
It is critical to keep creating restore points at regular intervals to give greater security to your data and settings. While it sounds easy, very often people forget to do this and therefore are depended on the vagaries of the operating system for the creation of restore points.
So, if you have ignored creating restore points or have not been able to make time for it, do start now to give your data and files an extra layer of security.
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