Re: CREATE a restore point, Win7

On 1/16/2022 7:44 PM, Robert Baer wrote:
> JJ wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 12:41:20 -0700, Robert Baer wrote:
>>> Robert Baer wrote:
>>>>     That is what i would like to do.
>>>>     So i find in dummies.com  purported instructions supposedly for Win7
>>>> (that is what the page said).
>>>>
>>>>     Well, the instructions after a few steps become impossible because
>>>> the words, wording, even intent does not exist.
>>>>
>>>>     Noodle around, find "action center" mumbles about restore there.
>>>>     Useless; ONLY restore - absolutely no save or make or create.
>>>>
>>>>     If one cannot (easily) create a restore point, then one cannot
>>>> possibly use something that does not exist.
>>>>
>>>>     FANTASY: "restore points".
>>>>
>>>>      Thanks
>>>     I take it that, for Win7, "restore points" are pure fantasy then.
>>
>> Press Win+PrintScreen.
> * The <windows icon><PrtSc> combo does nothing.
> 
>> Click on "Advanced system setting" link on left side. It'll show a dialog.
>> Switch to the "System Protection" tab on the dialog.
>> Press the "Create" button.
>>
>> The button is disabled if none of the harddisk has enabled protection.
> *  How does one tell/find out?  And change it
> 
>>
>> Or create it from the Command Prompt, batch file, or program shortcut file.
>> e.g. (note: one line command)
>>
>> wmic /namespace:\\root\default path systemrestore call createrestorepoint "my savepoint",100,16
> * Made a batch file with above command line; ran it.
>   Did nothing that i could see/find.
> 
>    So i went into the control panel and found bushwah concerning restore points and tried making one.
>   Did nothing that i could see/find.
>   But i did see some restore points the system made, related to program deletion.
> 
>>
> 
>    So now what? Purposely do something nasty like deleting a 
> fake program on purpose to force system to make a restore point
> 
>     Thanks

I would do a pump fake and drive for the net.
Nobody expects you to do that.

    [Picture]   right-click empty picture frame and select Reload or such...

    https://i.postimg.cc/yxRTLFKJ/create-sys-restore-point.gif

Start : Run : sysdm.cpl  is the System Control Panel (fastest way in Win10)

    Paul