Creating a restore point
Here's how to create a restore point:
- Wait until your PC is running smoothly.
No sense in having a restore point that propels you out of the frying pan and into the fire. - Make sure that you're using an administrator account.
- Choose Start, right-click Computer, and choose Properties. On the left, click the System Protection link.
Windows 7 shows you the System Protection tab, shown earlier in this tutorial. - In the lower-right corner, click the Create button.
Windows 7 asks you to fill in a description for this manually generated restore point. Type something that describes the reason for creating a restore point. - Type a good description, and then click Create.
Windows advises that it's creating a restore point. When it's done, it shows a message that says The restore point was created successfully. - Click Close on the message, and then click the X button to close the System Properties dialog box.
Your new restore point is ready for action.
In this tutorial:
- Maintaining Your System
- Coping with Start-Up Problems
- Creating a system repair disc
- Using the system repair disc
- Running in Safe Mode
- Working with Backups
- Restoring a file with shadow copies (previous versions)
- Maintaining previous versions on different drives
- Creating data backups
- Managing and restoring data backups
- Getting back the image backup
- Maintaining Drives
- Running an error check
- Defragmenting a drive
- Using System Restore and Restore Points
- Creating a restore point
- Rolling back to a restore point
- Scheduling the Task Scheduler
- Starting with your parameters
- Scheduling a task
- Zipping and Compressing
- Compressing with NTFS
- Zipping the easy way with Compressed (zipped) Folders
- Using the Windows 7 Resource Monitor and Reliability Monitor
- Controlling the Control Panel
- Removing and changing programs