{"id":641262,"date":"2013-02-05T00:15:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T05:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=128220"},"modified":"2013-02-05T00:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T05:15:34","slug":"set-system-restore-points-from-the-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641262","title":{"rendered":"Set System Restore points from the command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/laptop-keyboard-fingers-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"laptop keyboard fingers\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-67387\" \/>Windows System Restore is usually an excellent technology. Your PC creates Restore Points automatically at key times, and if disaster strikes then you can restore your system settings or key files in a click or two. It all seems very reliable &#8212; until, that is, you need to use a Restore Point and then your system hasn\u2019t been creating any for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is there are all kinds of problems which can affect System Restore. At the simplest, another user might have accidentally turned it off. But it can also be disabled via Windows policies, or just stop working altogether if you have issues with WMI or your Windows services. And that\u2019s why it might be useful to have a copy of\u00a0<a title=\"QuickSystemRestore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/29517-quicksystemrestore\" >QuickSystemRestore<\/a>\u00a0around as a backup plan.<\/p>\n<p>The program is a tiny (96KB) tool, no installation required, just download the executable somewhere safe. And then, when you run it as an administrator, it\u2019ll try to create a Restore Point for you.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s simple enough, of course. But life gets more interesting if that creation attempt fails, because the program doesn\u2019t just give up, or make an Event Log entry you\u2019ll never, ever read. Instead it tries to repair things, and get your PC working again.<\/p>\n<p>This starts very simply, for instance by activating System Restore if it\u2019s currently turned off, and restarting the necessary services.<\/p>\n<p>But if that doesn\u2019t help then the program will try more advanced repairs for System Restore itself, and the WMI Service. And if these fail it\u2019ll warn you of the problem and suggest you reboot, just in case that might resolve the situation.<\/p>\n<p>One annoyance here is that, if you forget to run QuickSystemRestore as an administrator, it won\u2019t alert you to the problem. Instead it\u2019ll display misleading alerts suggesting that System Restore is somehow at fault, which isn\u2019t exactly helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Set\u00a0<a title=\"QuickSystemRestore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/29517-quicksystemrestore\" >QuickSystemRestore<\/a>\u00a0up correctly, though, and this won\u2019t be an issue. You might then use Task Scheduler to manually run the program every day or two, perhaps, and if anything does happen to System Restore you can be sure that it\u2019ll quickly be restored to full working order.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/gallery-124288p1.html\" >Lilya<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/\" >Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=BJaAn3ox8xA:Q104snuJfC0:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=BJaAn3ox8xA:Q104snuJfC0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/BJaAn3ox8xA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows System Restore is usually an excellent technology. Your PC creates Restore Points automatically at key times, and if disaster strikes then you can restore your system settings or key files in a click or two. It all seems very reliable &#8212; until, that is, you need to use a Restore Point and then your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}