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Forum : Windows XP Support
What controls when automatic System Restore points are created?
From: John Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 16:25:57 -0500 I have two different systems running Windows XP Pro. Both of them are connected to the internet 24/7. One of them creates a checkpoint named "System Checkpoint" almost every day. Usually there is a checkpoint named "Software Distribution Service 3.0" on Sunday, instead. The other one rarely creates a checkpoint named "System Checkpoint" but every once in awhile it randomly does. What registry keys control this? I would like this second machine to create a checkpoint more often than it does. Thanks! John -- Please reply in this newsgroup. I never post my true email address to prevent spam. Thank you. [Reply] Re: What controls when automatic System Restore points are created? From: Leonard Grey Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 17:49:54 -0400 Excerpted from "Description of System Restore in Windows XP" by Bert Kinney http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html Event-triggered restore points System Restore automatically creates a restore point before the following events: o Application installation (provided the application utilizes an installer that is System Restore compliant, most applications are not compliant, so create a manual restore point before installing any new software). If the application install causes system problems, the user can restore the system to a state before the installation of the application, but only after uninstalling the application via add/remove programs in Control Panel. o AutoUpdate installation. AutoUpdate provides an easy way for users to download critical Windows updates. After the update is downloaded, the user can install the update on the system. If the user chooses to install the update, System Restore creates a restore point before the installation of the update begins. o System restore. For example, if a user accidentally chooses the wrong restore point, the user can UNDO the restore operation by choosing a restore point before the system restore took place. The user can then choose the correct restore point. Warning: When restoring a system from Safe Mode or from the Command Prompt an UNDO restore point will NOT be created! --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est John wrote: [Reply] Re: What controls when automatic System Restore points are created? From: AJR Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 19:39:27 -0400 As stated, if a restore point has not been created via a specific action (such as application installation) within 24 hours the default action is for the OS to create a System Checkpoint restore point - however many times the automatic restore point creation fails. A common reason for the failure is insufficient disk space in single or multiple partitions. [Reply] Re: What controls when automatic System Restore points are created? From: Jose Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 20:07:20 -0700 (PDT) On May 2, 5:25=A0pm, John <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote: Another thing can will "fool" you into thinking the RPs are not being created is that a new RP will only be created during what Microsoft calls "idle time", so no surfing, downloading, installing, emails, backups, restores, no manual or automatic virus scans, or the automatic RP creation will just get skipped because the system is not idle. It has to be idle. You can still create one manually, right? If not, then you have another problem. My system was not creating them when I thought they should be - skipped right over the scheduled time (sometimes). What is going on here? So when I read the words idle time, I tested it by going off campus for lunch. It took about 30 minutes of idle time for me, but when I got back, there was the RP. I never tried to figure out exactly how much time is idle time and don't really care, but was satisfied that there was no real problem that needed fixing (except me) once I saw what was happening. Looks like 15-30 minutes for me. Try your suspicious system - make sure it is really idle, change the time to when you know it will be idle, make sure it is idle, etc. Is it doing something else at the time you think a new RP should be created and your other system is idle? |
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