It is used to cancel our erroneous actions with you when working on a computer that led to its unstable operation. To our computer maintenance service, people who use operating system Windows 7 is many years old and only one in ten knows about restore points and one of fifty previous versions files, but does not know how to use them correctly.
Although it seems easy to use restore points, this feature has many features that you need to know. This article provides information based on personal experience the author, for example, we will find out why, when System Protection is enabled, restore points disappear or are not created at all. How to use a restore point in the absence Windows startup 7 and much more, I hope we will help you avoid many mistakes.
Windows 7 restore point
When choosing and applying a restore point, you need to be aware that changes usually only affect system and software settings Windows 7. All programs installed by us after the creation of the restore point we have chosen will be deleted.
- For example, if you created a restore point on January 8, and on January 12 you want to roll back to the state of January 8, then select the January 8 restore point accordingly. All programs installed by you between January 8 and January 12 will be deleted.
With regard to your personal data, no changes should occur to them. On this screenshot, you can see that System protection and the creation of restore points are enabled by default only for the C:\ drive. Check your Start->Control Panel->System and Security->System->System Protection.
You also need to know that the point Windows Recovery 7
, will not help you recover previously deleted files, but in this case you can use the function Previous File Versions, only if for this disk system protection was enabled and in Recovery options settings item marked Restore system settings and previous versions of files. In this case, Windows 7 System Protection backs up users' personal data using shadow copies. You can also see that if you click on the Configure button, (upper illustration) of the System Protection window, for local disk(C:), a window will appear in which you can see that 10% of the disk space has been allocated for drive recovery points (C:). Know that it is better to allocate 15%. The more hard disk space allocated for restore points, the longer they are stored. If Windows 7 needs to create a new restore point, and there is not enough space to create it, then the old point will be deleted and a new one will be created instead.
Note: if any volume in the operating room Windows system 7 System Protection is enabled, then user data is archived by creating shadow copies and becomes available in Previous versions of files. Shadow copies, do not exist forever, a space is allocated for their storage on the hard disk, which is regulated in the System Protection settings, as soon as it runs out, when new copies are recognized, the old ones are deleted.
For example, we have System Protection enabled for the C:\ drive, so we can use the Previous versions of files function, right-click on the C:\Program Files drive folder and select Restore previous version,
a dialog box will open Previous Versions, which will list all available versions of previous files. Files can be restored or simply copied, keeping the previous and current version.
Read the full article Previous Versions of Files.
When configuring System Protection for volumes that store only your files, you need to select in Recovery options paragraph Restore only previous versions of files, since no system parameters they don't have.
If you are worried about saving only personal data, then you'd better use the function Archiving computer data, this is a separate serious topic, just read it separately.
Windows 7 restore point is planned and created once a week, after the same time period has passed, such points are also called control points.
Windows 7 also creates restore points before installing any programs, and finally, you yourself can create a restore point by hand before installing any application in the System Protection dialog box.
Let's first look at a simple example of creating and using a restore point, and then we will analyze more complex examples.
Created Windows 7 restore point thus->Start->Control Panel->System and Security->System->System Protection. This dialog box is where you configure and create restore points. For example, we want to install a serious program on our own, but we are worried, what if we do something wrong, let's play it safe and create a restore point manually for the C:\ drive on which we will install our program.
Start->Control Panel->System and Security->System->System Protection->Create, then give the name of our point, for example 13.
Next, we install some program, but something went wrong, for example, the application does not start and we decided to roll back using a restore point to a time when the problematic program was not yet installed on our computer. We go to System Protection and select no longer Create, but Recovery, then
recovery starts system files, click next and select our restore point 13, pay attention to the item Show other restore points, if you check the box there, other earlier restore points will open for you.
A warning that the recovery process will be impossible to interrupt before it ends, we agree, then reboot.
The computer boots up and the program we installed, as if it had never happened. This is how restore points work.
Windows 7 restore point, you can use it if your computer does not boot, resorting to safe mode, it is impossible to create a restore point here, but you can use it to roll back to a stable state of the computer. To get into Safe Mode, you need to press the F-8 key on your keyboard immediately after starting the computer. You will see a menu of Advanced boot options: Troubleshoot your computer, then Safe Mode. To use the Windows 7 restore point in Safe Mode, click Start-> Control Panel-> Recovery, then System Restore and Start Recovery will load, select your restore point and go.
Windows 7 restore points occupy by default about 10% -15% (as I said above) of disk space, you can adjust the disk space allocated for recovery points in the Configure - System Protection window. If there is a lot of hard disk space allocated for recovery points, they will be stored for a long time. To delete all restore points, in this window you need to click the Delete button and all restore points will be deleted.
How to delete all restore points except the last one? Start-> In the search field, enter Disk Cleanup, then select the drive you want to clean, then go to the Advanced tab-> System Restore and Shadow Copy-> Clean.
Why aren't Windows 7 restore points being created?
Alek55sandr5 | June 10, 2015, 17:53
To get started, follow the steps that the user under the nickname "seroz" described. If this does not help you, then you need to adjust the frequency of creating restore points. To do this, follow the path: Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Task Scheduler - Task Scheduler Library - Microsoft - Windows - SystemRestore. Next, right-click on "SR" and go to properties. Next, select the "Triggers" tab and click "Create". You will now be able to set up a schedule for creating restore points.
Igor | July 7, 2014, 15:27
I offer a utility with the proud name Single Click Restore Poiont, which weighs almost nothing (377kb), does not require installation and, in seconds, removes the problem of a long way to create a system restore point. You can at least every day, in one click, create yourself the possibility of a rollback!
You just need to download, put the downloaded into a folder (not the system folder), the directory of which does not change, for example - where all your backup installation files are located, create a shortcut on the desktop by right-clicking on the file and selecting Send - Desktop, well, or others in the usual way for everyone. Then run the utility and wait for the window that says (in English) that the restore point has been created, which is true.
And, actually, I read somewhere that in order to successfully create rollback points in Windows 7, you need to place the paging file on another physical disk, namely on another hard disk, and not on another partition.
Vasily Kalmarov| July 1, 2014, 13:31
As far as I know, when you install a program, this does not mean at all that a system restore point will be automatically created at the same time, you need to worry about this somehow in advance. And if the program is some kind of malicious, hacked, unverified, etc., the system can be killed tightly, i.e. Definitely need to reinstall the OS.
If in your case restore points were not created, then you don’t even look for them - you won’t find them. I know that with a serious attitude towards the system, restore points are created, for example, when installing Windows updates, when updating versions of antiviruses (I have Avast creates points), when deleting programs (my uninstaller program Your Uninstaller creates restore points). But I have never created restore points when installing programs, I do not remember this. True, I installed very few programs, everything was installed at the very beginning after installing the OS, I use a large number portable programs.
Seroz | July 1, 2014, 10:05 am
Obviously, the checkbox is not set, allowing them to be created, and there are simply no rollback points. My computer - Properties - System protection (on the left) - Protection settings zone (check the inclusion, it should be - Enabled) or select the system drive and click the "Configure" button. There, check the volume used and where the dot is (usually at the top).
Good day.
Any breakdown and malfunction, most often, occurs unexpectedly and at the wrong time. It's the same with Windows: yesterday it seemed to be turned off (everything works), and this morning it might just not boot up (this is exactly what happened with my Windows 7) ...
It's good if there are restore points and Windows can be restored thanks to them. And if they are not there (by the way, many users disable restore points, assuming that they take up extra space on the hard drive)?!
In this article, I want to describe a fairly simple way to restore Windows if there are no restore points. As an example - Windows 7, which refused to boot (presumably, the problem is related to the changed settings of the system registry).
1) What is needed for recovery
Need an emergency bootable flash drive LiveCD (well, or disk) - at least in cases where Windows refuses to even boot. How to burn such a flash drive is described in this article:
2) How to enable booting from a USB flash drive in BIOS
1. Enter BIOS
To enter the BIOS, immediately after turning on, press the key to enter the settings - usually F2 or DEL. By the way, if you pay attention to start screen when you turn it on - for sure there this button is indicated.
I have a small help article on my blog with buttons to enter BIOS for different models laptops and PCs:
2. Change settings
In BIOS, you need to find the BOOT section and change the boot order in it. By default, the download goes immediately from hard drive, but we need: for the computer to first try to boot from a USB flash drive or CD, and only then from the hard drive.
For example, in Dell laptops in the BOOT section, it is enough to simply put the USB Storage Device in the first place and save the settings so that the laptop can boot from an emergency flash drive.
Rice. 1. Change the download queue
3) How to restore Windows: using a backup copy of the registry
1. After booting from the emergency flash drive, the first thing I recommend to do is to copy all the important data from the disk to the flash drive.
2. Almost all emergency flash drives have a file commander (or explorer). Open the following folder in it for the damaged Windows OS:
Important! When booting from a rescue flash drive, the order of drive letters may change, for example, in my case, the Windows drive "C: /" became the drive "D: /" - see fig. 2. Focus on the size of your disk + the files on it (it's useless to look at the drive letters).
Folder RegBack- This archival copy register.
Recovery Windows settings- need from a folder Windows\System32\config\RegBack move files to Windows\System32\config\(which files to transfer: DEFAULT, SAM, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM).
Preferably files in a folder Windows\System32\config\ before transferring, rename it beforehand, for example, by adding the “.BAK” extension to the end of the file name (or save them to another folder to be able to roll back).
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It's no secret that sooner or later every computer user is faced with such a task as reinstalling the operating system. There are many reasons for this, from unsuccessful installation or removal of a program to the consequences of exposure to viruses. Installing the operating system, drivers and programs necessary for everyday work is by no means a fun and lengthy task. Therefore, if the damage to the system is not fatal, advanced users choose to restore Windows without a complete reinstallation.
There are several recovery options. Let's take a look at the most basic effective ways that will help in this matter.
Method 1. How to restore Windows 7 using standard OS tools.
First of all, you need to use the simplest and fastest option. To do this, boot into "Safe Mode".
We start the computer. After loading the BIOS and displaying basic information motherboard you need to press the "F8" key.
As a result, you will see the following
The list will show a number of various ways OS loading. Select "Safe Mode".
note. If the system manages to boot, then the screen resolution will be 800 by 600 pixels, because. drivers work in VGA mode, this is normal.
The system will give us a choice of "Restore Points". Intuitively select the date on which the system worked properly. To do this, switch the marker to "Choose a different restore point" and click "Next".
If there are no restore points, then this option is not suitable for us, since the creation of Checkpoints was disabled earlier. Forget about this method and go to method number 2.
Attention. To avoid such situations, do not disable the "System Restore" option.
Method 2. How to restore Widows without a "Restore Point".
We managed to boot the system, but there is no restore point created earlier. In this case, you will have to use a disk with Windows distribution 7. It is worth noting that the distribution kit, that is, the assembly, must be the same as that currently installed on the computer. How to create such a disk, read this article.
We take a disk with Windows 7 and insert it into the drive. Click "Cancel" on the autorun window.
Enter the command "sfc /scannow" there
Click "OK" and wait. As a result of this process, all missing or corrupted files will be restored. All of them will be replaced with new and working files from the optical disc.
If you want to learn more about the "sfc" command, then open the Run window and enter the command "cmd" there
As a result, we will see the following
Enter "sfc /?" and read help
Attention. If for some reason unreadable text (hieroglyphs) is displayed on the screen, then you need to change the font in the settings command line. Do a right click on the top of the window
Then click on "Properties" and experiment with fonts there.
How to restore Windows 7 without using "Safe Mode" will be discussed
I read your articles about Windows 7, and decided to install it for myself. Everything seems to be great: the firewood is up, and the computer is flying, but recently it was necessary to roll back the system to the previous restore point, but I could not find any, although I made a restore point regularly on your recommendation (at least I tried to do it). It seems my memory hasn't failed me yet. So where did all my system restore points go?
Hello dear reader. Thank you for writing to us about your problem, especially since other users of the "seven" may also encounter it sooner or later. That's what I want to say; "Oh, how many wonderful discoveries Microsoft software gives us";)
As usual, Microsoft does not cease to present us with more and more surprises and, indeed, an unpleasant discovery for Windows user 7, intending to restore the computer after a failure, there may be a situation where there are no restore points (System Restore Points), which the operating system for some reason deleted with each reboot.
Apparently, our reader is not the first to encounter such a problem, so Microsoft experts have already analyzed the situation and found out that such an abnormal deletion of restore points in Windows 7 was caused by rare cases of high paging file fragmentation. To solve this problem, Microsoft experts suggest that you first stop using the paging file: go to the Start menu > Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced System Settings > "Advanced" tab > in the "Performance" section, click the "Settings" > tab " Advanced" > in the "Virtual memory" section, click the "Change" button > uncheck "Automatically select the size of the paging file" > select the option "No paging file" > click the "Set" button, the "OK" button and restart the computer.
After that, find on the logical drive with the installed operating system hidden file pagefile.sys and delete it, then defragment the specified logical drive. To do this, go to Start > Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > defragmentation of the hard disk > in the "Disk Defragmenter" window, select the system drive (usually this is drive C) and click the "Disk Defragmenter" button. Then you can go back to the settings section virtual memory and specify the size of the swap file.
At the same time, Microsoft experts note that if you manually select a fixed size, this will avoid repeating the indicated problem with deleting system restore points on reboot.
I note that this can also happen on computers under Windows control XP, if the space for storing recovery points on disks is not allocated proportionally.
Because the recovery point is saved for each drive separately, but synchronously on all drives for which the restore option is enabled. And if on one of the disks the allocated disk space quota is exhausted, then one of the old recovery points is deleted. Therefore, I would recommend leaving the system restore option enabled only for system disk(usually drive C), and on the remaining drives, disable recovery through the menu Start> Settings> Control Panel> System> tab "System Restore"> select a non-system disk and click the "Options" button> check the box "Turn off system restore on this disk"> press OK.
What to do if you came across this article at a time when Windows no longer starts and there are no restore points, but you don’t want to reinstall the system? I remember how the situation was, I turn on the computer - it swears with a blue screen, I turn it on safe mode- the same. Intuition suggested reinstalling, but remembering a bunch of passwords saved in the browser, restoring the Webmoney key file, installing / configuring the mass required software, try to recover the old system,.. there was clearly no time. In the morning, on the way to work, I took my laptop to a service center (
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