how often is system restore supposed to create restore points?

[knighttime]

just wondering

[RGX12]

It's not a matter of "how often", it's a matter of "when", as they are not created on a scheduled basis (although you can set up your own schedule via Task Scheduler). However, they are often created by the system before updates and before certain maintenance events. So you should get in the habit of creating them yourself if you need them.

[cryofreeze666]

back in the day, we turned off system restore (i still do). first because malware was able to embed itself inside the system restore. so if you decided to use the system restore, you get rid of nothing. ♥♥♥♥, turn it off. second, system restore does nothing but slow down the system anyway. with todays computer speeds, it takes about an hour to uninstall windows, reformat the hard drive to remove "difficult" files (or if a novice delete partitians), reinstall windows, and install the updates that don't slow the computer. the longest part will be doing the research on which updates help, or harm, the computer (not going to lie, if you haven't been researching updates since you purchased your computer, you have alot research on patch reliability to do) . but once you've spent the time, your computer will run great. the crap that windows has running in the back ground, is what makes that program the slowest garbage ever created. programs like system restore do not need to be running, the amount of time they save you with a fresh system install is like 20 or 25 minutes. barely worth the time of having it on if ya can't trust it. back up your files regularly, and shut that crap off.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

after you install and get system to where you want create a backup image. Very easy to start over with that pristine backup image ready to go

[knighttime]

when i reinstalled windows 10 i chose reset this pc when i should have just did a complete factory reinstall instead. in any event, after i reformatted windows 10 almost a week ago system restore has created two restore points so far. before reformat, system restore was not creating ANY restore points that is not normal. the reason why i like it, is because if your pc is acting messed up system restore is your first line of defense to getting it running good again.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No need for reset this PC; or Factory Restore.
Just download the very latest Win10 and re-create usb bootable flash drive; then boot from that and clean install the OS. Otherwise if Win10 is installed from an outdated source, it's just going to go through a series of Windows Updates until your Win10 is updated to the very latest version anyways.

[knighttime]

i just checked system restore and my computer is not creating restore points. why is this happening?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Publicado originalmente por knighttime:

i just checked system restore and my computer is not creating restore points. why is this happening?

Was it set to Off?
Was it set to a size of 0%?
Did your Win10 just recently update from 1703 to 1709?

If any of those are true, then that explains why.

[Azza ☠]

If Windows 10... the answer is "never" by default.

System Restore is old and dated, doesn't work well with an automatically updating 'service', rather than a static 'product'.

Instead 'System Reset' was created:
Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Reset this PC

This checks your Windows critical files and recovers them to a new state. It's like formating and reinstalling your entire OS again from stratch, yet leaving the other files around it alone. Just hope you still have the Internet to access the latest image online to bring it back to the latest state. If there's a connection, it works with the offical Microsoft server to bring down a copy of the latest files (rather than using a possible infected cached but protected copy on the hard drive).

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea fairly pointless in Win10 since the whole OS is outdated after every 3 months or so anyways.

[knighttime]

Publicado originalmente por Bad_Motha:

Publicado originalmente por knighttime:

i just checked system restore and my computer is not creating restore points. why is this happening?

Was it set to Off?
Was it set to a size of 0%?
Did your Win10 just recently update from 1703 to 1709?

If any of those are true, then that explains why.

it says, no restore points have been created on your computers system drive. to create a restore point open system protection. i find this odd since it was creating restore points after i "reset this pc" thanks for the advice bad_motha im gonna have to look into this further and try what you suggested.

[Talby]

Publicado originalmente por Bad_Motha:

Yea fairly pointless in Win10 since the whole OS is outdated after every 3 months or so anyways.

Not really, check out the Windows Lifecycle Fact sheet[support.microsoft.com], under "Updates and service packs" the EOL dates are clearly shown to be well over a year.

For example, let's say you're still on 1607 you are good throughout March of this year, including updates for Meltdown and Spectre. You can pretty much skip 1703 completely and just go right to 1709, or depending on the newer 18xx build release update to that.

I could not even imagine updating on a 3 month schedule in a business production environment, that would be ludicrous!

EDIT the exception to the 1607 release EOL are Clover Trail, they are supported until 2023 since 1703 and later builds don't support that hardware.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea, chances are your PC just updated though from 1703 to 1709
Now the OS settings are back to defaults and there are no system restore points; since 1709 is an entirely new OS, it wont have any "old" restore points.

Run Disk Cleanup to rid the system of all the old junk.

Then configure System Restore if you want that on.

There is nothing abnormal about this.