Windows 7 system restore: less reliable than XP? -PCWorld

The main computer is Lenovo ThinkStation for Windows 7 Professional, the operating system. Today will try to do a restore point manually, I have ended, on the other hand, a restore point window is a summarized version of the Restore. There, I could not help but note that it was only one of the available restore points.

Only one? (Yes, I have to click "show more restore points" in the dialog box).

It was a week old, and the installation of the Java 6 Update 24, launched.

Justice was also a five-month-old picture of the restore point, system, there is no doubt that the agreement which the experiment on my Windows 7 included in the backup image processing program. I'm not sure if the whole image can be treated as a backup restore point, but even if it may be five months old, and a backup copy of the file may not be available.

The computer gets turned on and off on a daily basis and has been in a few months of service. (C) of the disk partition is 35 GB of free space. System Restore is configured to use more than 1.65 GB of space. And one of the miserable restore point?

Curious, I checked the only other Windows 7 system available to me. This was the first entry into service in October 2009 and the number of months, it has been used on a daily basis. In recent times, it has grown to a little benefit.

It was all of two of the restore points.

System Restore uses 245 MB of hard disk space and its boundary was 670 MB. So why did only two returned to the show? Both were in a few weeks old; one had been manually, the second is created from the Windows Update Web site.

I Got A RPs?

Any mature Windows 7 system, which wants to comment on the available restore points, together with the current status of appropriations and the largest in the system restore, you will need to do it in the comments below.

You can view the status of system restore, do not use the appropriations: Control Panel-System-> > advanced system settings (left column) to the system protection tab > leaf > Enter button.

You can see the available restore points, go back to the system protection tab, click to select System Restore, click the next button and make sure that you enable the "Show more restore points" checkbox.

In Windows XP

It seems that Windows XP is more reliable when it comes to do the restore points. Without any specific progress, its default value, you should be able to do one day.

Another computer that uses the regular XP Professional operating system available to restore score was four, and they were all in the past. They had been taken: 5 hours ago, 4 days ago, weeks ago, and 2 days ago. Restore points available to some nuuka 441 MB.

Also revised the XP computer, which may not be used a lot and it was more than 12 (I stopped counting). Studies of this computer to the restore points to 978 MB.

Online search, I found the documents to restore points from Microsoft, which says

Windows 7 System Restore creates a restore point, scheduled only if the other restore points are created in the last 7 days.

The possibility to choose, I prefer to use the system daily to XP. And this does not explain why the 1.65 GB targeting the property system to be only one restore point.

I'm not alone in this. Last year, and one of his request leo.com-Web site of Leo Notenboom questions was Why my restore points in Windows 7 to keep the loss?

In his answer? You should not rely on the system restore.

Good advice.

Update: 15. March 2010. A little more digging will tell you that what is missing is displayed once a week is going to return to normal, no score. According to the United States Census Bureau, for example, Windows 7, you own it is called "automatic restore point". And my two Windows 7 systems is one of the. I use the system, which rarely has no restore points all over two weeks as a test, I leave for some time and see if the automatic one must be created for. ..

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