How To Create a Restore Point for Windows 7 or Vista’s System Restore

Create a Restore Point for Windows 7 or Vista’s System Restore

If you are thinking of installing an application but aren’t quite sure what it’s going to do to your computer, I would absolutely recommend creating a restore point before you install that application, and here are the steps to do so. Note that most application installs automatically create a restore point, but you can do this if you are really worried.
Open up the Start Menu and right-click on “Computer”, and then select “Properties”.

 

This will take you into the System area of Control Panel. Click on the “System Protection” link on the left hand side.

Now select the “System Protection” tab to get to the System Restore section.

Click the “Create” button to create a new restore point. You’ll be prompted for a name, and you might want to give it a useful name that you’ll be able to easily identify later.

Click the Create button, and then the system will create the restore point.

When it’s all finished, you’ll get a message saying it’s completed successfully.

Now if your application blows up Windows, you can restore your computer using System Restore.

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How To Disable System Restore in Windows 7 or Vista

How To Disable System Restore in Windows 7 or Vista

The Windows 7 / Vista System Restore feature will make sure that software installations, drivers, and other updates can be rolled back. The only price to this feature is some disk usage. If you want to disable System restore, which is a bad idea, it’s really pretty simple.

Just to make sure you understand… There are bugs. Things will crash. Disabling System Restore will keep you from rolling back changes.
So, you’ve read this far. Now let’s disable it. Right-click on the Computer icon, and choose Properties:

Click on the System Protection link on the left-hand side:

Once you’ve done so, the steps are different depending on your OS.

Disable on Windows 7 

Click the Configure button below the list of drives:

Now simply click the radio button to disable System Protection. (Note again that this is probably a bad idea).

That should be all you need to do.

 Disable on Windows Vista 

Once you’ve clicked the System Protection link in Control Panel, you’ll see the checkboxes next to your different disks:

Once you uncheck the drive, click the “Turn System Restore Off” button.

Now you’ve got system restore disabled.

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