Set a Windows 7 restore point. Create a system restore point manually

Some operating system (OS) changes are undesirable. Using a restore point is one of the key features of Windows 10. It allows you to undo system changes that have a destructive effect on the OS. Information on how to create a restore point in Windows 10 is publicly available, but it wouldn’t hurt to describe this function in detail once again.

The essence of undoing the next changes is to roll back the drivers, registry and other components to the previous state. Windows 10 restore point - the OS before its unwanted transformations. This is not a return to the previous OS image, but a cancellation of critical changes to its key elements. Creating a Windows 10 restore point occurs automatically or manually. The second is recommended before optimizing OS startup and disabling some of its services in order to free up RAM.

The automatic generation of recovery points occurs as a result of special settings of the Windows 10 security system. The OS allows the elimination of some and the use of others at the user’s discretion. Read more about how to roll back Windows 10 to a restore point.

Setting up OS security

First of all, it is recommended to study the nuances of restoring Windows 10. To do this, by entering “Start”, you need to select the corresponding menu line “Control Panel”, and then “Recovery”. Then click “System Recovery Settings”. An alternative method of getting to the required window is to press the Win + R keys and enter systempropertiesprotection and confirm with the Enter button.

As a result, the settings menu will open, where you can check for which drives protection is activated. Restore points are generated only for those that are marked, so the user can independently control the degree of OS security.

In particular, if the protection of drive “C” is inactive, it can be started by clicking on it and clicking on “Configure”.

To continue, click “Enable system protection” and indicate the area required to form recovery points: the larger the space, the more of them are saved. As the virtual territory is filled, old data is deleted and automatically replaced with new ones.

To perform this operation, you must again enter the “System Protection” tab. Creating a restore point begins by clicking on “Start”, then “System” and finally “System Protection”.

Then press the “Create” key and set the name of the new element, then select “Create” again. After a few seconds the process ends automatically.

At the end of this procedure, data will appear on the computer’s hard drive that allows you to roll back the OS, if necessary, undoing changes that have occurred in system files that are critical for the normal operation of Windows 10. This feature will be extremely useful if the OS does not work correctly due to the installation of some software or other IT product.

The created recovery points are located in the closed System Volume Information folder in the root of the disks or their partitions selected in “System Protection”. However, the owner will not have access to them.

Rollback the OS to a restore point

It is important to remember the order in which the presented system capabilities are implemented. There are several ways to implement it: in the OS interface, using diagnostics in special boot modes and in safe mode, via the command line.

The standard method involves using a control panel. A prerequisite is that the OS must boot. You need to select “Recovery”, then click “Run system recovery”.

This will load the recovery wizard. The first window of its interface offers a recommended, automatically generated point. The second option is “Select another recovery point”, where in the list that appears you can click another one, formed in any way. After this, click “Finish”, after which the process of rolling back the OS to the selected state is completed.

An alternative method of using a restore point is to use special boot modes, which you can access through “Options”, “Update and Recovery” and “Recovery”.

It’s even easier from the lock screen: you need to click on “Power” in the lower right corner, and then, while holding Shift, select “Restart”.

In the special boot modes interface, select “Diagnostics”, then “Advanced options” and “System recovery”. Next, the user has the opportunity to roll back to the created restore points, for which they may need to enter the account password during the process.

The third method is to begin restoring the system to the selected state from the command line. This option will be indispensable for the only OS boot mode - safe. Enter rstrui.exe into the command line and press Enter. Next, the recovery wizard is launched in the graphical interface.

Eliminating Windows 10 restore points

The whole procedure will not take much time. To eliminate the created restore points, the user will again need to enter “System Protection”. Select the disk, click “Configure” and “Delete”. As a result, all points for the selected element are deleted.

Another option is to use the Windows 10 disk sanitization IT product. To load it, press Win and R, then enter cleanmgr, and after opening the software, click “Clean up system files.” Afterwards, select the disk for sanitization and go to the “Advanced” tab. All restore points are deleted there, except for the final one.

And, finally, the final method of eliminating them from a computer’s hard drive is using the IT product CCleaner, which is provided to everyone absolutely free of charge. Its interface is simple and understandable to the Russian user, and the sequence of necessary actions is logical. To do this, find “Tools” in the program, click “System Restore” and select the restore point that needs to be deleted.

At first glance, the algorithm of actions is confusing, but in reality it turns out that it is only difficult at the beginning. Having tried several ways to create points and rolled back the system a couple of times, the user achieves the desired effect and sees the benefits of this indispensable function.

A restore point is a representation of the saved state of a computer's system files. You can use a restore point to restore your computer's system files to a point in time in the past. Restore points are automatically created by System Restore on a weekly basis and when System Restore detects that your computer has changed its configuration, such as installing a program or driver.

System image backups stored on hard drives can be used to restore the system in the same way as restore points created by System Protection. Although system image backups contain both system files and personal data, system recovery will not affect user data files.

How to create a restore point?

You can create a restore point manually at any time. What is this for? If you like to install different programs and utilities, then eventually the system will start to slow down, then by creating restore points, you can always return the system to its original state. Installing new drivers or software updates, cleaning the registry or disk, all this can lead to irreversible consequences. So let's get started by doing the following:

Restore points are retained until the disk space reserved for system recovery is full. As new restore points are created, old ones will be deleted. If you disable System Protection (the feature that creates restore points) for a drive, all restore points will be deleted from that hard drive. After re-enabling system protection, new restore points are created

To select a restore point in the window System protection click on the button Recovery. In the window that opens System Restore click Further and select a restore point. and click Further

Deleting a restore point

You cannot delete an individual restore point. You can delete either all restore points or all but the last one. Deleting recovery points frees up disk space. When new recovery points are created, disk space is reused

Amount of disk space required for system recovery

Storing recovery points requires at least 300 MB of disk space on each drive that is 500 MB or larger. System Restore can use three to five percent of the space on each drive. As the space fills with recovery point data, the " System Restore» deletes old restore points to make room for new ones.

Many users of computers based on the Windows operating system know that this OS allows you to create restore points. They allow you to restore full operation of the system in cases where it is infected with a virus, does not start or the OS is working with errors. To help PC users who are not familiar with this procedure, we have prepared material where we describe this process in detail for Windows 7.

The principle of the recovery procedure in seven

The basic principle of the procedure for creating a restore point is automatic saving of system settings when it changes. For example, in order for a Windows 7 restore point to be automatically created in the OS, changes must occur in the registry. That is, when you install any driver or software, the OS records it and creates a restore point. Based on the above, it becomes clear how many restore points Windows 7 can save on your hard drive. Therefore, in order for a PC user to return the computer to its previous state, all they need to do is use one of them and start the procedure itself.

How to restore a computer on seven

In this section we will describe the OS recovery procedure faulty P K using one of the points. For example, we will take a faulty PC with an operating system Windows 7 Ultimate. This computer can still boot the OS, but it is unstable, producing screens of death, freezes, and many other system errors. Most likely, this behavior of the OS is caused by a virus or the absence of some system files.

Now let's try to select a restore point on this PC when it was still functioning stably. To do this, go to the system properties and open the “” tab. Now let's press the button Recovery….

After clicking, a wizard window should appear. The wizard window shows that we can start fixing the OS using the recommended point, as well as by selecting the points created earlier.

In our case, we will select the last point when it worked stably and is recommended.

Having selected it, the wizard will ask you to confirm the recovery procedure using it.

As soon as you confirm, the wizard will immediately rollback to the previous OS state.

Reverting to previous settings may take five minutes or much longer. The rollback time depends not only on the amount of returned data stored on the PC, but also on the computing power of the computer itself. After a successful rollback, you will see a message like this.

Manually created Windows restore point

In addition to automatically creating control points, the user has the opportunity to create them himself. For example, before installing a beta version of software that is not yet well supported by the OS, you might want to create it manually.

To create a point manually, we will go to the system properties to the same “” tab. In this tab we will select the bottom-most button named Create…. After this action, a window will appear in which you need to set a name. It is best to create a name associated with specific changes in the seven. For example, if you installed some driver package, then the restore point can be called “ Installation of drivers from 06/10/2016».

Having specified a name, click the Create button. After successful creation, you will see a message like this.

You can find the newly created control point in the wizard that we looked at earlier.

In the wizard window, you can only select and view the properties of a point to roll back to the previous state of the system, but you cannot delete it using this wizard.

Deleting checkpoints can free up hard drive space, but you should also be aware that they are permanently deleted.

A free utility will help us delete a specific checkpoint CCleaner. You can download the CCleaner utility from its official website. To use the uninstall options, you need to launch the program and go to the “ Service/System Restore».

In the CCleaner utility window, you can view and delete all previously created restore points, except the last one. This is done specifically so that the user can use the last point in the OS if it crashes.

Reviving an OS that has stopped loading

Let's look at an example of restoring an OS when it stopped loading completely. In this case, the culprits, as in the example above, may be malware, unlicensed software And remote files operating system.

For this example, we will need a licensed Windows 7 disk. To return the OS to operation, we will boot from this disk when the computer starts. In the second window of the downloader there is a link "". To start rolling back to the previous state, we need to click on it.

After this action, the bootloader will scan the hard drive for the presence of previous operating systems and allow you to select one of them to roll back. In our case, this is the only Windows 7 operating system.

Having selected the required operating system, we move on to the next window.

In the second window of the wizard, a list of all checkpoints will open, with which you can roll back to the previous state.

Further actions are identical to the first example, so there is no point in describing them. The example described above is used by thousands of users, as it allows you to return the OS to its normal state.

Let's sum it up

After reading this material, any PC user who was unfamiliar with checkpoints will be able to restore the system to a working state. In addition, I would like to give our readers some advice.

To ensure that your OS functions properly, use good antivirus programs and do not install pirated software.

For example, if you maintain the system in a normal state, then the creation of checkpoints can be completely disabled. Many experienced PC users do this, as it can slightly improve the performance of the computer. However, if your computer resources allow, the described technology will greatly simplify your life if something goes wrong with your OS. Therefore, the choice is yours.

Video on the topic

A Windows is so versatile that all administration operations (installing drivers, marking the hard drive structure, backing up data) can be performed without even using third-party software. The same goes for creating restore points. What is the concept of a “restore point”? This is a system protective mechanism that allows you to prevent software malfunctions and incompatibilities when installing new applications, running scripts, changing registry settings - in short, all those steps that can lead to a fatal system error, as a result of which it will stop loading altogether or possible critical errors will appear. By saving the point before making changes, you can restore the previous state of the computer and avoid the operating system not working. By default, immediately after installing the OS, this mechanism is disabled. How to turn it on, how to work with it, how to create a restore point and how to load the last working state - today we will touch on all these points in detail.

How can I check which drives have protection already enabled?

The process of automatically saving recovery points and downloading from them is called system protection. Let's check whether this mechanism is activated for any partition of the hard drive on your computer, and if so, for which one. To do this, open the “System” form, which displays basic information about the computer. Go to the control panel and select the “System and Security” section (“Categories” view mode)

An alternative way to open the same form is to select the “View RAM and CPU speed” option.

When working in Win10, the same result is much easier to achieve by right-clicking on the “Start” button in the lower left corner of the screen and selecting “System” in the menu.

The “System” form opens. Go to the “System Protection” subcategory.

So this is the shape we need. Let's see which drives have protection enabled and which ones don't. This can be done by viewing the list of logical drives in the Security Settings section. As you can see in the screenshot, on the test computer, protection on drives C: and D: is enabled, but on drive E: it is not active.

It is advisable to activate protection on all system drives (i.e., on those where a particular operating system is installed). For those disks that are used as file storage (music, movies, programs, games), protection will only take up extra space, while software errors on such disks are quite rare.

How to enable/disable protection on the selected disk?

Select a logical device from the list and click on the “Configure” button.

As you can see, in the settings form that opens at the top, you can toggle the trigger for enabling/disabling disk protection, and just below, by dragging the slider on the “Disk space usage” ruler, you can specify in percentage terms how much free space on the disk will be used to store recovery points . Here you need to set the value to at least 1GB or 1%.

By default, after installing a new operating system on a hard drive, the protection is disabled. If you wish, if you have a large hard drive and you don’t have to save every megabyte of free space, you can enable it. This can be done on this presented form.

How to create a restore point manually?

Also, by default, before installing a new major OS update, running batch files or system scripts, a restore point is created automatically, without any user intervention. However, you can create a restore point manually at any time using the standard interface. To do this, on the previous “System Properties” form, select the working disk in the list and click the “Create” button at the bottom.

Well, now a little more about how to create a system restore point. This procedure is incredibly simple - just enter the name of the save state and click the “Create” button in the dialog box.

After waiting for (about) a minute, a message will appear in front of you stating that everything went correctly and the point was successfully created.

How to load the previous state of the hard drive?

If you want to load an earlier state of the OS, open the system properties form (read how to open it in the first half of this article), select the desired active disk and click the “Restore” button.

After this, a dialog box will appear in which you need to confirm your intention to download an object such as a Windows restore point. Click the Next button.

Now you need to choose which point you want to restore. Make a selection on the form. If you want to get detailed information about exactly which applications will be affected during recovery, click the “Search for affected programs” button. If you are targeting a date, simply make your selection and click Next.

So, all the preliminary settings are set. All we have to do is download the selected restore point. To start the download procedure on the next final form, click the “Finish” button.

Immediately before the start of the download process, a warning appears stating that once the procedure has started, there will be no way to interrupt it; you will have to wait until the very end. We agree with this by clicking the “Yes” button.

Windows System Restore has started. The computer will restart with previous settings, installed programs, and registry settings. The whole process will take about 10-15 minutes.

It is important to note that the recovery procedure will in no way affect any user files, documents, multimedia and other objects belonging to the user category.

An alternative way to start the recovery procedure is through the command line. Press the Win+R key combination. A mini-form for launching applications through the “Run” command will open. In it, enter the name of the executable file rstrui.exe (if desired, you can skip the .exe extension and limit yourself to only the main name). The same dialog box will open.

Recovering Windows 10 system when booting from disk

Another important feature of this feature is the ability to boot from any recovery point using a CD. This method will come in handy if, due to some circumstances, your system has completely stopped booting, and you have to find effective and efficient ways to restore the operating system. One of these ways is to use safe mode, but we'll talk about that next time. So, how can you create a restore point to return the operating system to its working state? To do this, you must first boot the system from disk using the boot menu.

We boot the computer from the Windows distribution DVD. Insert the disk into the drive and turn on the computer. When the following message appears on the screen, press any key on the keyboard.

The computer will boot from the disk. The following menu will appear. Leaving the Russian interface language and keyboard layout selected, click the “Next” button.

Now we have the main start window for loading the OS from disk. We don’t need installation, so select “System Restore” at the bottom left.

In the system menu that opens, select the second item – “Diagnostics”.

Next, we move on to choosing a recovery method. As you will see, Microsoft developers offer us several recovery methods. They all vary in both execution time and degree of effectiveness. What we are interested in is restoration using a previously created point (savepoint). Select the item “Advanced options”.

In the additional options menu, select the first item “System Restore”.

After this, select from the list the operating system you want to restore.

Now, if you have created at least one savepoint in advance, a recovery dialog will appear. In all other respects, the recovery procedure is the same as described earlier, in the section “How to load the previous state of the hard drive.”

This method is very convenient and practical, so we can recommend its use to those who experience critical problems loading the OS.

Results

Today we described a detailed procedure on how to create a restore point in the most current Windows system at the moment (Top Ten) and return it to a working status. In Windows 7 and Windows 8, everything is similar, so we will not dwell on restoring these versions of the OS separately. We hope that you will not have to resort to the routine described above, and if you do, then everything will work out for you, and the performance of the OS will be quickly and successfully returned to its proper form.

Today we will figure out how to create a Windows 7 restore point for subsequent system recovery as a result of a failure. Unfortunately, there are situations after which your computer does not boot or boots incorrectly. The fastest and least problematic option to restore operation is to use a system rollback to a stable version.

You can “break” the system in different ways, but the most common are installing software, installing drivers, or incorrectly updating Windows. It is these actions that, in 90% of cases, lead to the failure of the operating system. But it's okay if you always have fresh system restore points.

In this article we will figure out how to make restore points and how to use them to restore the system in the event of a failure. If the recommendations described below do not help you, you can always contact the professionals from hardmaster.info to recover your data.

Create a system restore point

To create a system restore point, open the computer properties

open the item “ System protection”

In the window that opens, click the “ Create”

Enter the name of the recovery point; you don’t have to specify the date and time in the name, they will be added automatically. After entering the name, click “ Create”

The creation of a restore point will begin, wait until the process completes

if everything went well you will see a message

After this, calmly carry out experimental actions on your computer; in case of problems, you can restore a working version of the system.

Restoring the system from a restore point

Now let’s imagine that your system refuses to work correctly. If the computer does not boot at all, you can use the disk to install Windows 7. While the disk is loading, select “ System Restore” and follow the path of selecting the operating system and the created restore point.

If Windows has loaded but is not working correctly, you can use standard tools to restore the system. To do this, open the “System Properties” window and go to the “System Protection” tab (the windows are described above in the section on creating a system restore point).

In the window, click the button “ Recovery“, then click “ Further”

select the previously created system restore point (or the most recent one) and click “ Further”

In the window that appears, click “ Ready”

and once again agree with what we are doing

after which the system recovery will begin. During recovery, the computer will reboot without your intervention. After a successful reboot you will see a message

Ready! The system has been restored and is in working order again. I would like to add that before each system update, restore points are created automatically. So if a system update leads to a breakdown, you can always use recovery.