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Customizing System Restore to create custom restore points only?
Hello... I was wondering if there was a way to disable automatic restore
point generation, yet be able to generate custome restore points... Like the restore points XP automatically creates when you install new software or simply when it feels like... Turning off system restore completely deletes all restore points... Can somebody guide me? A manual method or a way around would do as well... |
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Customizing System Restore to create custom restore points only?
Asim--
I don't believe there are any ways to customize restore points and I'm not sure at all why you need to. I'm guessing you are concerned about real estate SR takes up--MSFT defaults it to 12% way more than you need for your hard driver or each drive you've partitioned to. That makes it along with Temp Files and Recycle Bin the King of Space Hogs in Windows XP. Why not simply hit the Windows + Pause Break keys and on the SR tab on the System Properties dialogue box slide that baby to a smaller %--I run with 3% and SR has worked just fine. There are 5-6 default times when SR creates points but the points themselves don't have a downside. Some references are he http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_restore.htm http://support.microsoft.com/default...295299&sd=tech http://www.theeldergeek.com/system_restore.htm http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials...le.php/2177311 I'm curious--none of my business--but why are you trying to do this? I'd like to help. There are also 3rd party SR appliations that some XP enthusiasts favor--like http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/ hth, Chad Harris _____________________________________ "Asim" wrote in message ... Hello... I was wondering if there was a way to disable automatic restore point generation, yet be able to generate custome restore points... Like the restore points XP automatically creates when you install new software or simply when it feels like... Turning off system restore completely deletes all restore points... Can somebody guide me? A manual method or a way around would do as well... |
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Customizing System Restore to create custom restore points only?
Auto ones are done by Task Scheduler. Disable task scheduler.
Auto generated ones are done every 10 hours of uptime AND 24 hours of = clock time. Though it requires 15 minutes of inactivity to finish the = restore point. Your setup programs are manually creating a restore point, not all do. --=20 ---------------------------------------------------------- 'Not happy John! Defending our democracy', http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/...392635123.html "Asim" wrote in message = ... Hello... I was wondering if there was a way to disable automatic = restore=20 point generation, yet be able to generate custome restore points... = Like the=20 restore points XP automatically creates when you install new software = or=20 simply when it feels like... Turning off system restore completely = deletes=20 all restore points... Can somebody guide me? A manual method or a way = around=20 would do as well... |
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Customizing System Restore : Registry Tweaks
Asim--
David's post reminded me of something I should have said. You have some flexibility as to *how often* certain restore points are created, and some other system restore parameters, and you can control this to an extent with SR registry key edits. See: The Registry Keys and Values for the System Restore Utility http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp This information is from Jim Boyce's excellent book: *Windows XP Power Tools* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...46546?v=glance A restore point is created the first time you boot after XP installation. Thereafter points are created as David said, plus at these events: Install of Windows Updates When you perform a restore operation Install of unsigned device drivers Use of the MSI (Windows Installer) or Install Shield to install a program You should reflexly create a restore point when you install significant applications, drivers, when you try different drivers, when you install programs that don't use the MSI or Install Shield, or try any program or move that makes you think whether you should create a restore point. It's a quick protectie move, and a good one. Just put "restore" in your run box and click on "rstrui" and it's up and ready to roll. You can create more restore points automatically with value changes in this key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\ System Restore RPGlobalInterval: A DWORD value specifying the number of seconds that SR waits before creating an automatic restore point bsed on a calendar date. The default setting is 86,400 seconds (24 hours). You can titrate the seconds. RPSessionInterval A DWORD value specifying the number of seconds that SR waits before creating an automatic restore point based on system uptime. The default setting is 0 seconds which switches this function off. By default, restore points are kept 90 days, and then automatically deleted. IF SR grows to occupy more than 90% of available storage space before that, it delets the oldest restore points so that it has 25% of remaing restore available space free for creating restore points. If you select SR in disk cleanup, XP purges all restore points but the latest. To change the length of time that restore points are kept, adjust the RPLifeInterval value entry in the SR key. The default setting is 7,776,000 seconds (90 days). If the system drive has less than 200 MBof free space or a non-system drive less than 50MB, SR is suspended when a file it's tracking is modified, copied, or deleted. This suspension applies to all of the disks, not just the one short of space. When you free 200MB of space on the system disk or 50MB on the non-system disk, either wait 15 minutes for SR to notice and restart itself or you can go to Startrun or windows key + r and in the run box type "restore" and then select "rstrui" and SR will then start immediately. Win XP doesn't preserve SR settings if you reinstall XP or do an upgrade from Windows XP from Home Edition to Professional. However, I have seen it preserve restore settings on an inplace/upgrade or "repair" install. That is not a guarantee nor is restoring all your settings and data, but you have an excellent chance. It's just my opinion, but I seen a number of boxes where people complain they need more hard drive space (this is becoming less of a problem as they are manufactured larger), and they could gain valuable real estate by moving that SR slider over to less than 12%. How or why the SR team arbitrarily chose such a large number is difficult to understand. Also although in theory SR defaults to 90 days of restore points, for whatever reasons, I have never seen this many. Improper ("dirty") shutdowns can corrupt restore points, and that is always an incentive not to have them when shutdown is elective. Shutdown May Affect System Restore http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp Chad Harris __________________________________________________ _________________________________ "Asim" wrote in message ... Hello... I was wondering if there was a way to disable automatic restore point generation, yet be able to generate custome restore points... Like the restore points XP automatically creates when you install new software or simply when it feels like... Turning off system restore completely deletes all restore points... Can somebody guide me? A manual method or a way around would do as well... |
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