Restore Point Creator

NOTICE ABOUT FUTURE UPDATES!
As of this point going further development of the program will be considerably slowed down. In the past new public release versions would be released every fifteen days with public beta versions being released in between, this is going to end. From this point on there may be as much as two months of time (or even more) between new release versions due to personal reasons. There’s no big development house behind this program, no large team of developers; it’s just me. One single guy who writes this program for donations. I give away this program for free but if you want to, you can donate. At no point do I tell you that you have to donate or even lock you out of parts of the program because you haven’t donated. No, that’s not my style. Anyways, I’m just here to tell you that development of the program will be slowed considerably from this point on due to personal reasons. This however does not mean that I’m abandoning the program. Nothing could be further from the truth.

ATTENTION!
Did you install the Windows 10 Anniversary Update? Wondering where your restore points went? See the FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions for details on what happened.

System Restore Point Creator now has an official Issue Tracker where you can submit bugs to me. Please file bugs at the Issue Tracker instead of the comment section.

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Download Restore Point Creator Installer
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This is version 4.1 Build 5, the last version of System Restore Point Creator that is compatible with Windows XP. Any future versions of System Restore Point Creator will not run on Windows XP. Windows XP users will not receive any new updates. If you want to continue using System Restore Point Creator and get support you must update your system to Windows Vista (or newer).

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Version 6.4 Build 1 is now available for download and updating through the program.  All updates to the program can be checked for and downloaded by clicking on the “Check for Updates” button in the program. A full changelog can be found here.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.x, and Windows 10.
System Requirements: Microsoft .NET Framework v4.0

[spoiler title=”Recent Changes”]September 1, 2017 -- Version 6.4 Build 1
It's been a long time since a major new version has been released and this version is chock full of bug fixes and performance improvements. And now for the list of changes...

* Optimized much of the code used to parse Boolean values from the Registry.
* Added EnableWindowsFormsHighDpiAutoResizing to the embedded app.config file.
* Fixed multiple parts of the program to be thread safe.
* Added better handling of Integer Strings to the List View Sorting code.
* Simplified the RegEx parser used to the existence of numerical Strings with commas in it.
* Cleaned up some code on the Update Notification window.
* Added a Debug Mode and Build notation to the crash data that's written to the application event log.
* Improved the operation of the Application Event Log search tool. This required a massive rewrite of the Application Event Log tool in terms of how it holds data in memory.
* Improved code that's used to compare String values.
* Included additional code to handle user.config file access violations that could cause the program to crash. Thanks goes out to Terry Lynch for reporting this issue to me.
* Improved the window width restraints of the Disk Space Usage tool and Update Notification windows.
* Merged in version 1.300 of the HTTPHelper class and a new version of the deleteAtReboot Class.
* Fixed the support.convertErrorCodeToHex() function in which there was a possibility that "0x" wasn't prepended to the returned String.
* Optimized the code of the addExtendedCrashData() function along with adding support to handle StackOverflowException.
* Replaced the Please Wait window with a Please Wait panel built into the window itself. This major change to the program should go a long way in solving a lot of crash issues that people have been having with the program once and for all.
* Fixed a grammar mistake on one of the dialog boxes.
* Fixed a bug in which the label that tells you how many restore points are on the system wasn't updated after deleting selected restore points.
* Fixed a bug in the file download routine in which it was telling the user to check the Application Event Log if an error occurs but the program wasn't logging anything to the Application Event Log for the user to check.
* Removed an unnecessary thread declaration from the update checking routine.
* Changed the way that custom colors and column orders are saved by the program in the applications settings data. It now uses a much simpler way of storing the data.
* Removed the code to handle Specialized String Collections from the settings import and export code since it's no longer needed.
* Added a limit of 6 MBs of files to be attached to the Official Contact Form. This is so as to not overload the mail server on my web server.
* Changed the memory dump file type that's created when the program crashes. Hopefully it doesn't result in too big of a file.
* Greatly improved application startup times by properly setting the process priorities such as the CPU and I/O priorities. Before these were set to below Normal when launching the program using the Task Wrapper which caused the program to run slower than it should have been, especially at application launch.

As stated before, development of the program will be considerably slowed down. I don't have nearly the same amount of time that I used to have to keep a heavy active development cycle like what I had before with a 15 day release cycle. This new release is the first new major release since[/spoiler]
[spoiler title=”Attention users have been having crashes with this program”]It has come to my attention that many users who have downloaded this program may be experiencing program crashes when using this program. I, the developer of this program, have tried to make this program as crash-proof as possible. A majority of users who have downloaded and used this program do not experience program crashes. Those who are receiving program crashes most likely are receiving these program crashes because Windows on your system is broken in some way. My own machines (including several virtual machines) do not have crash issues with this program. If you are receiving program crashes I suggest you download Tweaking.com’s Windows Repair Tool at http://bit.ly/winrepairaio, download it, and run the following repairs on your system.

01 – Reset Registry Permissions
03 – Register System Files
04 – Repair WMI
18 – Repair Volume Shadow Copy Service
25 – Restore Important Windows Services
26 – Set Windows Services to Default Startup

If this doesn’t work for you then your system will need to be re-installed from your Windows installation media.[/spoiler]

If you need to bypass the no UAC launcher, download Restore Point Creator forced UAC Prompt.reg and launch it. This will force Restore Point Creator to use the UAC prompt.
To restore the no UAC launcher, download Restore Point Creator no UAC Prompt.reg and launch it.

Ever found that creating Restore Points in Windows is a bit tedious?  Click this, click that, go there, click another thing, and then finally you’re at where you need to be to create a Restore Point.  There’s got to be an easier way to do all of that.  Right?  Well, now there is.

Introducing Restore Point Creator, written by Me.

Create and manage System Restore Points quickly and easily, all from a free simple program.  No more drilling through multiple menus in Windows just to create a System Restore Point, now all you have to do is run this program and that’s it.  Follow the simple program layout and you have your System Restore Point created in no time at all.

Plus, for users of Windows 7 and Windows 8, creating System Restore Points is even quicker and easier with this program.  Just pin this program to the Taskbar and you have the ability to quickly create System Restore Points using one of the two pinned Tasks (“Create System Checkpoint” and “Create Custom Named”) that the program creates.  It’s that simple.

  • Create System Checkpoint — Creates a System Restore Point with the name of “System Checkpoint made by System Restore Point Creator”
  • Create Custom Named — Asks you what you want your System Restore Point to be named and then creates one based upon what you inputted.

Download it for free here.  Full Source Code is available for review upon request.

If you like this program, feel free to donate.  Or feel free not to donate.  It doesn’t matter to me.  Donations to use this program will never be required to use this program.  It is and always will be a free program.  But, if you do feel that you want to donate it would be a nice gesture of appreciation for the program.

A fan of this program decided to put together a video demonstrating the usage of this program. Thank you.

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  • charles

    Hi, wondering if this can restore those points it creates… specifically from a windows pe boot disk access to an NTFS Windows 7 drive. Are you familiar with ERU assembly app? I read that there are additional files backed up with Vista on up… not done it XP, and guessing your app. does some of this?
    Thank you,
    Charles

    • Tom

      All System Restore functionality that’s in this program uses only approved Microsoft System Restore APIs and conforms to all Microsoft System Restore Point specifications. Any and all restore points this program creates is capable to being restored via any other method that also conforms to Microsoft System Restore Point specifications.

  • Jerome Rosen

    Hi Tom,
    Thank you for System Restore Point Creator- it is invaluable.

    I’m running Windows 8 Pro 64 bit. The Restore Points seem to be very slow to be loaded to the list. I do see “System Checkpoint Created by System”- I did five installs within the past hour and those are the five messages I see. I noted your comment about VSS- I’ve read that VSS is not a Windows 8 component? Or maybe I’m doing something wrong. Would sure appreciate some feedback. Thank you.

    • Tom

      Volume Shadow Service or VSS is an integral part of System Restore.

      What System Restore does is makes a snapshot of your system. All of the system files, registry, and other various things that are required for the system to function properly. The problem is that all of these things are in constant use and are constantly changing no matter how little the change. Volume Shadow Service is what makes a snapshot of the volume, freezing the file system in a virtual image from which System Restore builds the restore point from.

      There are some explanations of how System Restore works and what Volume Shadow Service is.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Restore
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy

    • Tom

      As for why it takes so long to load the list, there’s a lot of data to be loaded by the OS to display the System Restore Points that your system has saved. My program uses standard Windows APIs to gather the names of the System Restore Points and displays them in the list. The more restore points you have, the more data Windows has to load, process, and pass to my program via the appropriate Windows API calls.

  • Jerome Rosen

    I’m running 1.2.14 & loving your great program. But I just ran into a problem. Th current Restore Points list shows only eight restore points (March 23 to March 30). I had over 50 restore points (should have deleted some before) but all of the others are missing. First time I’ve ever encountered that, or any, problem with your program.

    Running Windows 8 Pro, 64 bit, 4GB RAM.

    Please help. Thank you.

  • Tom

    That is very interesting Jerome. When you open up the traditional System Restore Point management part of Windows 8, how many appear there? The reason why I’m asking this is that my program uses the same exact Microsoft Windows API calls that Microsoft themselves use in their own System Restore Point UI.

  • Jerome Rosen

    Thanks for the responses Tom. Looking at Recovery I see the same 8 Restore Points as in Restore Point Creator. Re Disk Space Usage I have 15% (11.2GB) reserved. Up until about a week ago I had over 20 Restore Points saved- was getting ready to delete some when I noticed many were missing. Any suggestions?

  • Tom

    It ran out of space and deleted some for you. Restore Points can take different amounts of space to store them based upon how many changes there were from the last known Restore Point.

  • Jerome Rosen

    Thanks Tom. Do you have any suggestions/guidelines for the amount of space I should reserve? I have a 1GB HD.

  • Tom

    Most suggest at the very least, 20 to 25% of the HDD.

  • Tom

    Smaller if you have an SSD.

  • Jerome Rosen

    Thanks very much for your feedback Tom.

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  • Ron Lewis

    Hi Tom, thank you so much for a very nifty program. It sure beats always having to search create restore point in Windows 7 (64 Bit). Tom, I do have a question concern regarding each system restore point and the amount each takes: on my system, I have 12 and they all display the exact same size per each restore point. Is this natural?

    • Tom

      It does depend upon how many changes occur between each system restore point. If nothing changes much, the system restore points will be the same size.

  • Ron Lewis

    Thanks Tom, for clearing up what was fuzzy to me. Yes, nothing really has changed other than monthly Windows updates! Thanks again Tom.

  • Darlene Conrad

    i have d/l your program, extracted the zip file. but when i selecct the .exe file. i get a error message ” System restore point creation failed”
    what am i doing wrong. I am running windows XP.

    thank you

    • Tom

      You may not have the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 installed. You can get it here.

  • Darlene

    I had the framework 4.0 but i ran the link u sent, did a repair…..still getting the same message. the program is not working. I tried on my laptop as well as desktop. got the same message on both.

    Thank you

    • Tom

      OK, when you first start it it gives the error? Do you have Admin privileges?

  • Ron Lewis

    Darlene, try right clicking on exe.file then properties; choose run as windows XP. I hope this helps!

  • Darlene Conrad

    Did as you suggested..exe.properties, under compatibility XP is NOT listed. only Windows 95,98/Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 (SP5) and Windows 2000.
    Sorry to be such a bother, but i really want to run this program.

  • Tom

    I will have to do some research into why this is happening. It shouldn’t be happening in the first place.

  • Darlene Conrad

    sorry for the bother. I will just not get to enjoy your program, that everyone is raving about. Dern.

    Thank you so very much

  • Ron Lewis

    While Tom is researching, for the heck of it, try to run it with the Windows NT 4.0 (SP5).

  • Darlene Conrad

    thanx for the “try” i did .got the same message. I took a picture, but i don’t see where in here i can post.
    And that was using windows NT

  • Ron Lewis

    It was worth at least a try. Until Tom finds something in his research, try the other settings in the exe. properties; that way you will have exhausted all of them with the hopes one will work!

  • Tom

    I have deployed a new version of the program, Build 23. This should fix the issue. If not, report back to me and I’ll dive into the code again.

  • Darlene Conrad

    YEAH, it is now working great with this new version. Now i have to try it on my laptop, and read about all the features. Thank you so much Tom and all who have tried to help me.what an excellent group of people.
    THANX bunches

  • Gary Blackman

    When using the check for update button I get a message “no internet connection detected”. This has been the case for the two versions I’ve used including the latest 1.2 build23. I’ve been checking your updates manually via the website.

    • Tom

      This should be corrected in Build 24.

  • Gary Blackman

    Thanks for the reply!! Great piece of software!

  • Mele

    Can you make “Disk Space Usage” show me how much space is used currently for restore points and how much I have reserved for restore points? Currently, it simply shows how much free space I have on my two hard disks. I had to go find System Restore (luckily, I have God Mode so it wasn’t that hard but, if I didn’t have that on Windows 8 Pro, I would have been stumbling around).

    Last time I checked Restore Point Creator I had five restore points. Today, I have only two yet there is a LOT of free space that I allocated for restore points. It would be nice to be able to quickly check the amount of unused space through your program.

    I decided Windows 8 cannot be trusted regarding restore points since it deleted three of the five for no reason. So, I set up a weekly task to make a restore point…but then that won’t help much if Windows 8 decides arbitrarily to just delete restore points on it own. Any chance you could make your program stop Windows 8 from doing this unless it needs to delete the oldest restore point in order to have room for the latest scheduled one? The C drive is an SSD so I don’t want a large number of restore points but I want more than the two that were there today.

    I suppose this is not important but for your info I installed the latest version a few minutes ago and it said it was missing a dll (two errors flashed by really fast on the screen so I didn’t really have time to read them) but then it fetched the dll and fixed itself! That’s impressive.

  • Mele

    I found a little window underneath the screen I was on so I didn’t know it was there until I happened to go directly to the desktop just now. I thought it was from Open Office upgrade that I just downloaded but it was from your program and said something about there were three help files (I didn’t realize your program has help files) that were the same name as the new ones and did I want to replace the old ones. It was a bit odd.

  • Paul C

    I see in Windows 8.1 they have done away with the Windows 7 file recovery (system image) although it can still be run without UI using Powershell. It would be fantastic if you could provide Windows 8.1 users an easy method to create a system image instead of the unfriendly powershell method. (wbAdmin start backup -backupTarget:H: -include:C: -allCritical -quiet)

  • The following video may be of help:
    http://youtu.be/_grJn-gQzvo

    • Tom

      Seriously, wow. Just wow! Thank you for the video on YouTube! And thank you for the promotion of my program! Keep it up!

  • Yehudi Schmaltz

    I love the ease of use of your program and I am creating restore points, but I am still having problems. Restore point show AOK but when I restart both your restore points and the ones the system created are gone. I have
    200 GB allowed for restore points.
    I always had deleted restore points before installing your program.
    I upgraded from Win 7/64 to Win 8/64 via Microsoft disk
    Computer is HP 110f

    Any Ideas ?

    • Tom

      Try this…

      1. Right-click My Computer> Properties, then click on the System Restore tab.
      2. Check the box that says “Disable Restore on all drives”
      3. Click “Apply” then reboot your PC. (you will be prompted to reboot)
      4. After the system fully reboots, go back to the System Restore tab again and uncheck the “Disable Restore on all drives” box.
      5. Reboot once more.
      6. After the second reboot, run System Restore Point Creator and click on “Create System Checkpoint”
      7. After the restore point has been created (assuming without error), select the Restore Point that the program just created in the list of restore points and click “Restore System to Selected System Restore Point”.

  • Mele

    Is there any way to force this junk I have (Win 8) to keep restore points beyond one week? Can you possibly make it so NONE are deleted until ALL the space allocated to restore points is used?

    I just updated from build 14 to build 15 and I had six restore points going back about two weeks before I updated. When I updated to build 14, a couple of days ago, I had six restore points and they were still there after updating. So, I don’t think updating this program to build 15 just now had anything to do with it, but when it restarted I only had three restore points beginning August 16. All three are ones I have scheduled through this program on Mondays and Fridays.

    Apparently, Microsoft, for some reason I cannot fathom, thinks that as soon as the third restore point is made, within an 8 day period, that all prior must be deleted (unless some bug in build 15 caused them to be deleted). The six I had were taking up less than 9% of the space allocated for restore points.

    Your submit comment button (and Mail address box also) keeps disappearing. I have to refresh the page to get them back and if I enlarge the comment box they disappear again. Probably some Windows 8 quirk.

  • I have 14 restore points going back to 8/1/2013. I wonder if you have enough hard drive space set aside for extended creations ?
    I have 20 Gig set aside for restore points on my system.
    (System Properties > System Protection > Configure)

  • Joseph

    Hey Tom for some reason the program seems to be crashing. Once it is started and all thats said, is that a program has cause it to stop.

  • Tom

    Try redownloading the program.

  • I’ve just had to add the programs path to the exempt list in avast! C:Program Files (x86)Restore Point Creator*
    Strange since that wasn’t needed till this last build.

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  • bernd

    Hello Tom, I have just read everything, downloaded and installed the program. This is the utmost!! Congratulations for this nice work. It is so helpful. The video also is a great explaination. Thank you very much for all the effort you put into it

  • bernd

    may be you can put the “like” and “share” buttons for facebook and others on the bottom of this page to make it more popular. Just an idea.

  • bernd keller

    I have a question: it is understood that older restore point will be deleted after some time otr when there is not enough space, but is it possible to mark a certain restore point as a priority restore point not to be deleted?

    • Tom

      As far as I know, no; there is no way to prevent Windows from deleting specific restore points. Windows is really not equipped to handle that kind of functionality. If you really need that kind of functionality, your best route is to use something like Macrium Reflect Free to create a disk image to then keep that you can restore from at any time. Windows-based Restore Points are somewhat temporary, they’re not meant to be something that lives in the system forever.

  • bernd keller

    Ok thank you anyhow. Image as backup I do anyhow regularly, that is fine then.

  • MIKLO

    Very nice thanks so much for your hard work in making this app. I’m using Win 8 X64 and I was not able to get a daily restore point no matter what I did. 🙁 After installing your software I was able to program my system restore points just as I wished. VVVVV cool thanks again, and it works perfectly:)
    MIKLO

  • bernd keller

    Hi MIKLO, yes and a very good thing is that you see all the restore points and you can delete individual unneeded restore points easily and keep those which are important for you. Bernd

  • Verne

    With you latest update I am getting”
    An unhandled applications has occurred etc etc…I have never seen that before, how can I download an older version that worked “just great”
    thanks
    Verne.

    • Tom

      Where are you getting this Unhandled Exception? I need to know this so that I can develop a fix for the bug and deploy a new version.

  • 4D

    very good tool 🙂

  • Greg Webb

    I’m also getting the ‘Unhandled Exception’ error. The full message is:

    Microsoft .Net Framework
    Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

    No value exists with that name.

    [Continue] [Quit]

    I have .Net 4.0. I know it’s not the latest but I have automatic updates turned off.

  • Greg Webb

    (I’ve also tried XP compatibility but it hasn’t helped.)

  • Tom

    A new version is out that fixes a bug that two people who have commented on this page have been experiencing.

  • Greg Webb

    Hi Tom, I can confirm that the .Net error has been fixed (ver 2.3.23). Beaut program!

  • Program does not create restore point on my windows 8.1 machine. I am using v. 1.3, build 25, installed yesterday.
    After entering description, and clicking create button, I get a message that ‘point was created’, but it never appears
    please advise.
    jim u

    • Tom

      It may take some time for the Restore Point to appear in the list.

  • I understand it might take time for the points to show up. I read that in some of your other posts. However, I created 2 points yesterday and they never showed up.(overnight)
    I guess I will just use the restore program provided in windows.
    Deleting….

    • Tom

      Considering Windows 8.1 isn’t even officially out yet, I don’t even have a machine yet to test my program on. When it does come out, I will do the necessary adjustments to the program that are needed for Windows 8.1 support.

      Since a number of people who have Windows 8 (not 8.1) use this program with no issues, I figured that it should work exactly the same on Windows 8.1 considering that 8.1 is really just a small update to Windows 8. Under the hood is the same engine. At least, that’s what I assumed. I guess not.

    • Tom

      I’m downloading a copy of the Windows 8.1 Preview version since that’s all I have access to. I’ll try to find out what’s going on using the preview version but if it works in the Preview Edition, then I’m going to be have wait until 8.1 is officially released.

    • Tom

      OK, the bad part is that the program works as it should in the Windows 8.1 Preview Edition, Build 9431. What does this mean? It means that potentially something broke between Build 9431 and the official release of Windows 8.1 and I won’t know what that broken part is until I get my hands on Windows 8.1 and unfortunately, I won’t be able to get my hands on a copy until the official release date. Sorry.

      • Jim

        Thought you might like to know. I have not tried to use or upgrade the program since my last contact, but today it did record a restore point successfully .
        I will keep you posted !!
        thanks–
        jim u.

  • rene

    new Version 1.3.27 is crashing on Windows 8 64 bit, exception type: System.nullreferenceException, is there any solution?

    • trparky

      What were you doing at the time it happened? Did you get a window that said that there was an unhandled program error or something like that? If so, I need the data from that window. You should be able to submit that data from the program window itself. Also, include details on what you were doing at the time the crash happened.

  • rene

    Crash with new Version 1.41, Windows 8, 64 bit, I have not been doing something specialy, just had Outlook und IE running at the time, here is the crash data

    Message: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
    Exception Type: System.NullReferenceException

    The exception occurred bei Restore_Point_Creator.My.CryptSocketEncoding.Method(String column)
    bei Restore_Point_Creator.Form1.loadPreferences()
    bei Restore_Point_Creator.Form1.Form1_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    bei System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    bei System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
    bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
    bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
    bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
    bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
    bei System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
    bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

    best regards
    rene

    • trparky

      Did you at all have a window appear that stated that a program error occurred? If so, please submit the crash report using that instead of putting them in comments here; it’s cluttering up the comments. Not to mention that there’s no safe way for you to post an email address for me to contact you back at. Submitting crash data via the program allows you the user to submit an email address safely which is important for me to be able to work with you to fix the issue.

  • Harish Kaji

    Sir !!!! you did good job !!!!! very nice utility for restore point …. how to run this utility in startup automaticaly and creat restore point at startup ????? it is most important Sir !!!!!!!

    • trparky

      There is something called “Schedule a System Restore Point” on the main window. That’s what you would use to schedule the creation of system restore points.

  • Toni

    Just a thought, wouldn’t it be easy to have Restore Point Creator in your right-click menu?

    • trparky

      In the right-click menu where?

  • jamessite

    My schedule Restore Point does not seem to be working. I have downloaded the latest version.

    • trparky

      OK, what version of Windows are you running? There are a couple of things to check.

  • TRINI-TECHY

    Hey tom I am up and coming pc tech, an I was wondering if you have ever thought of creating a driverback utility. I know that there is driverbackup which works great but it has not been updated since 2010 I know this is asking for much but, I just wanted to know if you have ever thought of this or would talk on the task probably come up with a licensing price for businesses would be nice. That way you won’t feel like you are under any pressure having to update all you creations.

  • jamessite

    I am using Windows 7 Home Premium

    • trparky

      Go to the Start Menu and type in “Schedule”, it should give you a result for Task Scheduler. Click on it. Find “System Restore Checkpoint by System Restore Point Creator” in the list of tasks. Click on the Actions tab. Now, in the details part you should find a string of text with “.exe” in it. Something like “C:Program Files (x86)Restore Point CreatorRestore Point Creator.exe”. Take that piece of text minus “Restore Point Creator.exe”, copy it to the Windows clipboard or at least remember it, and open up Windows Explorer by clicking on My Computer and then pasting what you copied/remembered to the Location bar at the top of the window. If the file “Restore Point Creator.exe” exists, then we need to do some more troubleshooting but let’s check this part out first.

  • bob

    New user, win8 I just cannot get the scheduler to run. I wonder what I am doing wrong?
    Thanks
    Bob Kassl

    • trparky

      Alright, I have updated the program with a new version. Hopefully this should fix the issue you’re having.

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  • nextgraf

    Such a great program Sir. Really appreciate it. Re your instructions for troubleshooting scheduling restore points from 14 days ago. On my Wind 8.1 vivobook ” “Restore Point Creator.exe” exists, then…”

    What must I do now to get it to work? Thanks so much.

    • trparky

      Have you upgraded to Version 1.7 Build 1? I have fixed a number of issues that may fix your issue.

      • nextgraf

        oops.. posted back in wrong reply. See my reply to myself. jeez

    • nextgraf

      I’ll try that and post back. Just moved up to 1.6 build 10. Thanks for the reply!

      • nextgraf

        Hey… that worked! Personalizing 3 new pcs… This will definitely reduce my number of excursions up s**t creek. Thanks so much for tweaking that through! And thanks for answering.

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  • DannyJ

    When will it support fully Win 8.1? When I click Create System Restore Point it the pop-up window immediately comes up and says it has created the restore point, but in reality it does not create anything.

    • trparky

      Alright, I will look into the situation.

    • trparky

      I have done some tests in the Windows 8.1 installation that I have installed in a virtual machine and it appears that the program work exactly like it should. When you create a restore point it may take some time for it to be created in the background.

    • trparky

      I just put out a new version that may fix your issue. There is a possibility that you were hit with a bug that happened when you upgraded from 8 to 8.1.

  • DannyJ

    Thank you. The new version works fine.. Seems that this update from 8 to 8.1 has not been the best job MS has done. There are a lot of more bugs.

  • BBB

    I have tried this program several times and can NOT get it to work. It gives me an “Unhandled Application Error Detected” error every time I load it up. I am using Win7 64-bit. I have downloaded v. 1.7 (the latest version). Can you help?

  • Bob G

    I tried to submit a crash report but could not get to a place to do so. Therefore, reluctantly, I am submitting the report I get when i try to run Restore Point Creator after installation:

    Restore Point Creator Fails

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
    Problem Signature 01: restore point creator.exe
    Problem Signature 02: 1.7.3.0
    Problem Signature 03: 526b23a3
    Problem Signature 04: mscorlib
    Problem Signature 05: 4.0.30319.17929
    Problem Signature 06: 4ffa561c
    Problem Signature 07: 3e0b
    Problem Signature 08: 4
    Problem Signature 09: System.IO.FileNotFoundException
    OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
    Locale ID: 1033
    Additional Information 1: 0a9e
    Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
    Additional Information 3: 0a9e
    Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

    I do have Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 installed on my PC

    • trparky

      Go to http://bit.ly/16gSCV9 and download that file. Run it and get back to me. It is a special debug build that I have available that should help pinpoint where the issue is.

  • MIke

    The program works great on my microsoft surface pro tablet. The one big problem is that the font is so small to read, and the full screen does not show up. Great product!

    • trparky

      Well, the program is a more traditional Windows program unlike the ModernUI apps that work in the full screen mode. I may come up with a way to increase the font size but that’s in the future.

  • Maximus

    Dear Sit,
    Your choice to abandon XP, sounds like Micro$oft’s. Not to argue your opinion, but are you aware, just how many people still use and depend on XP, not just in the USA, but World Wide? You may be surprised.

    As an old timer who’s been around as long as M$ [and lived in Seattle while it evolved], I have learned [the hard way] 2 things about M$. (1) Very profitable business, that historically releases a new operating system, without knowing if it’s truly ready for prime time. (2) Historically it takes 5 years to work out all the bugs of a new OS, and typically it’s the user community that has to find out what works and what doesn’t, not M$. M$ only introduces the upgrades to correct the problem.

    Is XP really dead, just because M$ says so? Not in my book. If OS’s that followed XP were better, I would be the first to put my XP to rest, but so far, Vista, Sys 7, and now Sys 8 ‘claims’ to be better, [having owned them all] I can attest my XP is still the most reliable, stable and adaptable system I’ve ever had. And that’s why [my] those computers were boxed up and sit in my closet, (and yes I can afford to do that), as I continue on my XP. Just because Sys8 resembles a person’s cell phone, doesn’t make it a better choice. For me, a computer is a tool, not a toy.

    If you were to investigate the architecture of XP compared to Sys8, you would understand why XP w/2 GB system RAM, will out run Sys8 w/8GB system RAM. And yes, I’ve proved it to myself, in my own private side-by-side tests, where both setups were running quad [4x Samsung] monitors, so I speak from experience. One system has a simple architecture , while the other is so complicated, it’s stumbles under it’s own weight.

    Your choice to abandon XP [in my opinion], is not based on facts, but rather, factoids. [10/2013]

    • trparky

      There are a lot of checks that I have to make sure to do when dealing with Windows XP inside the program. Don’t do this, don’t do that, disable this, and disable that all because Windows XP doesn’t support those options or they are broken under Windows XP because it only partially supports those options.

      Personally, I run Windows 7 as my full time operating system and only run Windows XP in a virtual machine for testing purposes. My hardware in my computer is so advanced that Windows XP couldn’t handle it. When you have a Core i5 Quad-Core CPU, 16 GBs of RAM, a high-end video card, and an SSD as the boot drive you can start to see exactly why Windows XP wouldn’t support it. I have no plans on going to Windows 8 or 8.1 (again I only run them in a virtual machine for testing) because I think that Microsoft is out of the ever living minds if they think that Windows 8’s train wreck of an OS in which there is an obviously tablet/touchscreen oriented interface and a traditional desktop interface smashed together was a good idea. Windows 8 is a train wreck for traditional desktop users such as myself, plain and simple.

      Windows XP won’t be supported by Microsoft after April of 2014. What does that mean for users who still use Windows XP? That means no security patches, no support, no nothing. It’ll become a hacker’s fun house.

      I could go on with all of the technical reasons why Windows 7 is technically superior to Windows XP but that would be a whole day’s discussion. I for one know that from personal experience that Windows XP’s multi-core CPU support was a hack at worst, an after-thought at best. Windows 7’s kernel is far more capable of handling today’s multi-core CPUs than Windows XP can.

    • Bert Fabeetz

      XP is a very outdated operating system. Just because it works for you does not mean that software/shareware developers should ignore the improvements and not take advantage of the newer features of operating systems released after XP. You should really consider upgrading.

  • Mr. Phil

    I have Win7 SP1 OS. The first day I used your program I created a restore well and good. However, I can no longer run the program. It crashes almost immediately upon running it with the following error message. I subsequently tried to apply Vista compatibility to the program but it didn’t help. So if you can let me know when/if you make a fix I would be happy to try it out again. Thanks……..

    Error message from the crash—————————————————

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
    Problem Signature 01: restore point creator.exe
    Problem Signature 02: 1.7.3.0
    Problem Signature 03: 526b23a3
    Problem Signature 04: System.Management
    Problem Signature 05: 4.0.30319.17929
    Problem Signature 06: 4ffa5bd3
    Problem Signature 07: fe
    Problem Signature 08: 139
    Problem Signature 09: PSZQOADHX1U5ZAHBHOHGHLDGIY4QIXHX
    OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
    Locale ID: 1033
    Additional Information 1: 7422
    Additional Information 2: 74225b77da75245c40e6d77a4d35624d
    Additional Information 3: c890
    Additional Information 4: c890b7a1f1eb882ab72e256c111e538a

  • Mr. Phil

    I tried downloading the ~debug~ version and running it also. Got the following crash error message:

    Problem signature:
    Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
    Problem Signature 01: restore point creator.exe
    Problem Signature 02: 1.7.3.0
    Problem Signature 03: 526b2338
    Problem Signature 04: mscorlib
    Problem Signature 05: 4.0.30319.17929
    Problem Signature 06: 4ffa57ca
    Problem Signature 07: 43c1
    Problem Signature 08: 9a
    Problem Signature 09: System.IO.IOException
    OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
    Locale ID: 1033
    Additional Information 1: 99eb
    Additional Information 2: 99ebd1707db23dc15861995d4d97ff94
    Additional Information 3: 5f6b
    Additional Information 4: 5f6b04f6cf5b19b856c97be31c82539c

    • trparky

      There should be a mention about what function the error occurred in. I have looked over the code that’s involved in the start-up phase of the program three times already and all them have at the very least a IF IO.FILE.EXIST() THEN check around it, that’s Programming 1010 for programmers. I’m going through the code again for the fourth time looking for anything that might cause it. I’m putting more checks into places than I had them before but that shouldn’t change anything considering that when the program starts up it checks for all important files and creates them if need be at the start-up phase.

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  • Dan

    Great product but I can not get it to make a scheduled restore point in Windows 8.1. In the task manager it shows that it has run the task but no restore point was created. No problem running the program manually. I also ran the program as administrator to create the schedule for a task and it made no difference. Any ideas?

    • trparky

      Try updating to the new version. I think you may have been hit by the 8 to 8.1 update issue.

      • Dan

        I am running your latest version. 1.7 3. And I have read the other posts in this forum but it does remain a head scratcher.
        This Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 update issue is there any way that you know of getting around it? Or fixing it?

        • Dan

          I have done some more trouble shooting and it would seem that Windows 8.1 system restore is working properly i.e. It creates a restore point before installing new software. Windows 8 never did do this and that is why I had to revert to creating daily scheduled restore points. Thanks Tom.

          • trparky

            I have a new debug version out so if you would like to try it, please give me some feedback.
            http://www.toms-world.org/debug/RestorePointCreator.exe

          • trparky

            I have a new beta version out right now so I encourage you to download it and find out if it fixes the issues you’re having. I have a massive amount of fixes in store for a new future version.

          • Dan

            Tried your new beta version and yes it did create a scheduled restore point in Windows 8.1

          • trparky

            Good to hear. I have a massive new set of features and fixes coming soon when the beta testing period is done.

  • brotman

    Hi,
    Great program, I use it often. recently it has started reporting the the system checkpoint creation failed. How can I find out whst caused the failure so i can try to fix it???

    • trparky

      At this point I would try and make a restore point using the more traditional method, if it fails there reply back with the error message and I will look into why this is happening. Unfortunately the API I use to access the Windows restore point sub-system either gives a Yes or No answer, no details as to why the “No” happened.

  • Bill

    Crash report submission routine fails!
    I have a screen shot of the main and report failure.
    I’ll submit it if you give me the proceedure.
    Bill

  • MIKLO

    I’m using Windows 8 home X64 and this program does exactly what I want as opposed to the Win 8 sys restore. I’d like to thank the author for all the hard work it took to bring this “kickass” software to us. What a concept it does just what it says it will do unlike so many other “freeware” apps. So thanks again for a very cool useful program.
    MIKLO

    • trparky

      Thank you. I have put a lot of work into this program. If you don’t mind, throw something into the tip jar. It’s a freeware application and yes I promise that it’ll always remain a freeware application with absolutely no limitations or feature locks and absolutely no requirement to pay for it but I still do appreciate something thrown in the tip jar.

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  • Derik Dang

    how can I view other restore point? I don’t any option when I lauched there
    -guest

    • trparky

      What do you mean?

      • Derik Dang

        I can’t seem to see any “previous / earlier” Restore Point after I passed 7 or more Restore Point. Is it possible if I can view and choose any particular stage so I can restore it? The software shown that it has created more than 7 restore point set, BUT I can’t see any of them except for the 7th.

        • trparky

          The program will show all restore points on the system, there is no limit to how many the program will show. However, if there isn’t enough space on the drive to hold any new restore points Windows will automatically delete older restore points to make room for new ones. I have a feeling that what’s happening is that you’re creating new restore points and Windows is deleting older ones to make room for the new one you just made. You can see how much space is being used by System Restore by clicking on System Restore Point Utilities -> View Disk Space Usage. If you find that there isn’t enough space you can click on “Manage System Restore Storage Space” on the Disk Space Usage window.

          • Derik Dang

            Thanks. I’ll try to adjust the “Disk Space Usage” to see if the program will work better. Is there a recommend setting for disk space if I want to see a least 10 restore points at all time? Thanks

          • trparky

            That is something I can’t answer since I don’t know the size of your storage drives. Normally I recommend anywhere from 20 to 40 GBs of space for restore points per drive that’s installed in the system.

  • ben

    Not working on my Windows 8.1 enterprise. This method worked for me: http://techzend.com/create-system-restore-point-windows-81/

    • trparky

      I will take a look into it. The bad part is that I don’t have a copy of Windows 8.1 Enterprise edition, I will have to see if I can get a trial of it and test it.

  • Harry Smith

    Tom: Here’s a general Restore Point question for you…. Is it possible to Store/restore to another disc, say my external backup? Is this even advisable?

    • trparky

      No, I’m sorry. There isn’t.

  • JBSnoopy

    Message: Die Objektvariable oder die With-Blockvariable wurde nicht festgelegt.
    Exception Type: System.NullReferenceException

    The exception occurred bei Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Symbols.Container..ctor(Object Instance)
    bei Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.NewLateBinding.LateGet(Object Instance, Type Type, String MemberName, Object[] Arguments, String[] ArgumentNames, Type[] TypeArguments, Boolean[] CopyBack)
    bei Restore_Point_Creator.My.Cache.Cache()
    bei System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
    bei System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
    bei System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
    bei System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

    • trparky

      Where did this occur?

      • JBSnoopy

        Just when I start Restore Point Creator. It occurs since the last Windows 7 Patch Day (Tuesday).

        • trparky

          OK, I have a debug build for you. http://www.toms-world.org/debug/RestorePointCreator.exe

          I have included some fixes in it.

          • JBSnoopy

            Now I get this error:

            Message: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
            Exception Type: System.NullReferenceException

            The exception occurred bei Restore_Point_Creator.Form1.updateSystemRestorePointsList()

          • trparky

            OK, I have a new debug build up. Try that one.

          • JBSnoopy

            This build works. Many thanks to you !

          • trparky

            OK, I have an official beta out now. If you would like to move to the beta test branch for future testing you can do that by going to Program Options -> Program Updates Channel -> Public Betas.

        • trparky

          Another set of Windows Updates that break something. Great. UGH!

  • fernando guillamon

    the Submit Crash Report do not working. Also not is a crash,is a bug, im with a aplication update and the program auto create a new restoration point and stop all. Not more new restorationm points. Pass some days i create a new point and all ok . Two very big problem. OK and you have a very big and good work

    • fos

      Hi Tom…Had a thought re your excellent Restore Point Creator program, is it possible to perform a system restore at the next system boot if a sheduled restore point creation at a set time is missed because the PC was turned off?? …fos

      • trparky

        Since the program uses the Windows Task Scheduling Agent to create scheduled restore points, the system will run the scheduled task the next time the system is available to do so. So, if the system was off at the time when the program should have made the scheduled restore point, the system will create the restore point via the program the next time the system is available to do so. If this means after the system is booted, then it will do so at that time.

  • JBSnoopy

    Is there a way to mount a Restore Point ? – Like System Restore Explorer ?

  • Amir

    The porgram do not show the latest restore points, it only shows the last restore point? the code is 115, how can i see restore points from 1 to 114?

    • trparky

      The Restore Point ID numbers are incremented with each new restore point on Windows Vista and newer. With each new one you create the ID number goes up. This is normal.

      As for why you have no other restore points on the system there are a number of reasons. There may not be enough reserved restore point space available to store more restore points though starting with version 2.1 the program should automatically notify you about this situation and give you a series of procedures to resolve said issue.

  • fernando

    When go to use your soft do not recup and that error

    Message: Acceso denegado. (Excepción de HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
    Exception Type: System.UnauthorizedAccessException

    The exception occurred en System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo)
    en System.Management.ManagementScope.InitializeGuts(Object o)
    en System.Management.ManagementScope.Initialize()
    en System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Initialize()
    en System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Get()
    en Restore_Point_Creator.My.GraphicsDefaultGuid.CountNull()

    a very good and difficult problem

    By a mistake I delete some lignes of good code.

    By W8 the last point of recuperatio is the day 28

    fguillam@gmail.com

  • fguillam

    Message: Acceso denegado. (Excepción de HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
    Exception Type: System.UnauthorizedAccessException

    The exception occurred en System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo)
    en System.Management.ManagementScope.InitializeGuts(Object o)
    en System.Management.ManagementScope.Initialize()
    en System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Initialize()
    en System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher.Get()
    en Restore_Point_Creator.My.GraphicsDefaultGuid.CountNull()

    That in two machines with win8.1 64 bits and not are possible to create any point restore

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  • Mikhail

    Thanks for a good program! There are two ideas to improve it.
    1) It changes RPGlobalInterval parameter to the default value 86400. I recommend to make this operation optional.
    2) Russian translation is desirable.

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  • MIKLO

    I have just encountered a problem that when I run the program I lose both of my USB external drives, when I try and open I get an error saying not accessible. I am using Win 8 X64, I have run SFC, also restored to a earlier time,ran for malware. Any help would be appreciated cuz I really like using but am not able with this problem.
    MIKLO

    • trparky

      Upgrade to version 2.2 Build 3 by using Check for Updates in the program. There is a fix for Windows 8/8.1 users in it that should resolve your issue.

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  • Joesixpack

    I screwed up my system. I guess indulging in hobbies, bad chess player, comes with it’s penalties. I need to go back in time. February 1 would be good. How or can it be done. I know I have done at least one restore in the past but it doesn’t show.

  • Stan Hood

    This is off base-But I need Win 8.1.1 update ISO copy. If U do let me Know.

  • Mohindar Sandhu

    When some restore points are deleted, does it reduce the amount of bytes in the hard drive belonging to those restore points? I was going to donate little bit what I can afford, however it kept asking me the name of state or province, I am from Canada and all those states listed are from America

    • trparky

      Yes, it does free up the space of restore points that you delete.

      You may have to switch to the Canadian version of PayPal. PayPal.ca is the domain for the Canadian version of PayPal. My PayPal email address account should still work to send money to despite the fact that my account is an American account and yours is a Canadian.

  • Mohindar Sandhu

    Thanks for your prompt reply. I have never sent any money through PayPal, I usually my master card or visa, however, it is not working, please let me know.

  • fguillam

    In two machines with windows 8.1

    Message: No se puede crear el componente ActiveX.
    Exception Type: System.Exception

    The exception occurred en Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.GetObject(String PathName, String Class)
    en Restore_Point_Creator.SystemRestorePointCreator.Functions.Functions.List()
    en Restore_Point_Creator.My.Keyword.Store(Object index, StartupEventArgs pchostinfo)

  • Mike Norris

    Great product!!!
    I have a high resolution tablet. I cannot read your program’s small print. I can not change the font size in the control panel, because that would affect all the other programs on my tablet. Do you have any suggestions or possible help? Thanks for anything you can do.

  • Hoody

    Just wondering, what is it about this small program that requires constant updating?

    • trparky

      Well, I’m trying to code around issues that people seem to have with the program that’s a result of their machines being broken in some way. I use the program on my own machines and have no issues with it but others do seem to have issues with it. I have been trying to implement fixes into the program to try and fix those people’s machines that have issues but so far have been rather unsuccessful. I have a feeling that if that tool on Tweaking.com doesn’t fix their machines, it’s time for them to format and reload.

      • Hoody

        OK, like I said I was just wondering since there seems to be a lot of them.

        So far I haven’t experienced any problems with it myself, I don’t use it that much as it is, only when I want to make a restore point on my own for some reason, Windows makes them as it is.

        However since it won’t let you remove ALL restore points, only the ones prior to the last one, I still use system protection to remove all points prior to doing my full defrag and image backups.

        Other than that it hasn’t been a problem using it.

        • trparky

          May 1, 2014 — Version 2.3 Build 10
          The program now allows users to delete all restore points including the most recent System Restore Point. However, default settings for the program is setup so that it won’t allow you to do so. To enable this you must go to “Program Options/Settings” and then click on “Allow for deletion of all System Restore Points”.

          • Hoody

            Cool, Thanks, saves me the extra clicks to go to system 🙂

  • brs

    hey Tom — I’m wondering if it’s possible to use this in conjunction with a custom application installer, to allow the user the option to create a restore point before installing my application ??
    many thanks
    b

    • trparky

      Short answer, no. Long answer, I don’t have any APIs in place to allow this to occur. However, if you need such a utility made I could make a stand-alone file that will do what you need.

  • David

    Hi, I have 4 partitions. I set system restore on on 2 of them, off on 2. When Restore Point Creator creates a restore point, it enables system restore on all partitions. I’ve just checked explicitly. This is not what I require, as it could mean I lose information in using a restore point. Thanks. (Win 8.1 32 bit)

    • Hello!
      +1
      Georges (W8.1 64 bits)

      • Hello!
        Le Build 8 corrige le problème
        Merci

        Build 8 fixes the problem
        Thank you

  • Charlie

    Hi Tom,

    When I create a restore point on my Windows 7 SP1 64 bit computer, RPC switches on System Restore for all my partitions when I only switched it on for my C drive i.e. my OS drive. How do I create a restore point for only C drive?

    Also, what is ‘Check System Drives for Full Storage Data’?

    When I click ‘manage system storage space’, I get an error ‘Shadow Copy Service Provider Error detected’. What is this? How do I fix this?

  • Hoody

    U think U could add another tab to show the size of the restore point? Like when I go to system, system protection it opens the restore point box, there when I click the drive, and click “configure” it will show me the size of the restore point.

    Thanks 🙂

  • Sam

    Hi Tom,

    Unfortunately, previous system Restore Points can be damaged at times or accidentally deleted. Windows doesn’t provide a feature to backup them. Just recently my Restore Points were accidentally deleted, and I had to Recover the entire multi-gigabyte system volume from backup after some OS features malfunction instead of just recovering a few megs of the previous Restore Point. Is it possible for you to add Export & Import Restore Points feature? It would allow to backup older Restore Points to another disk just in case they’ll be gone on the prime drive. Very important and almost impossible to find feature in any backup package.

  • ThomasKing

    I was fan of system restore of Windows XP before April-14 but it seems they have stopped the support. I have installed Deep Freeze ( http://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze/standard/ )on my XP. It is a system restore software by Faronics. Heard good reviews about it. Did you know about?

    • trparky

      Yes, I have heard of it. And yes, you are right that Microsoft has pulled support for Windows XP. They have been saying that they will be pulling support for Windows XP for nearly a year prior to April 14th of 2014. Yes, you can continue using Windows XP with Deep Freeze if you so choose to do so but that is not a very recommended thing to do at all.

      It is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by both me and a lot of other people to upgrade your operating system to at least Windows 7. If you computer can’t handle Windows 7, then it’s time to upgrade your computer’s hardware. Again, it’s HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to upgrade to at least Windows 7. There are going to be no more security patches for Windows XP and that will leave you open to many future threats to your privacy, data, and your identity.

      • ThomasKing

        Thanks for you reply. Appreciated! I will think about upgrading my machine to Windows 7.

  • BrucieK

    Hi, Tom–

    Thank you for creating this terrific utility. I just paid a visit to your tip jar — you did a great job!

    I’m a recent XP-to-Windows 7 (Professional) convert, and the reason I’m using your utility is because I couldn’t get Windows 7 to create restore points through the Task Scheduler utility, no matter how I tinkered with the settings. The history tab of the Task Scheduler claimed it WAS creating restore points regularly, but they were never showing up in the System Restore utility. I spent the better part of the week searching the web for solutions and hanging on the phone with Microsoft, and they couldn’t figure out the problem, either. When
    I finally told them about your utility, they said, “This guy sounds like he knows more about Windows than we do!” The ultimate compliment.

    A few questions, if you have a second:

    1) How is it that I couldn’t get Task Scheduler to create restore points as efficiently (and visibly) as yours? If your utility is indeed running through Task Scheduler, then apparently Task Scheduler is working properly, right? The only thing I can think of is that the Microsoft’s Restore Point command is wrong. According to task Scheduler, it’s :
    %windir%system32rundll32.exe /d srrstr.dll,ExecuteScheduledSPPCreation

    2) Or maybe Task Scheduler is actually saving the restore points in a different location? I (carefully) checked the System Volume Information folder, and they’re not there. Perhaps the Task Scheduler is saving them elsewhere? (My problems with Task Scheduler began after I backed up my computer onto an extrenal drive; so is it possible Windows is now continuing to try to write the Restore Points to that drive?)

    3) When I check Restore Point Creator’s properties in Task Scheduler, the folder is “blank” inside. Is that because you’ve made the commands invisible by design (or, what you call “code obfuscation” in your release notes)?

    4) I noticed that when I run my Windows Services utilities, Task Scheduler is one of the only services in which the settings options (Automatic, Manual, etc.) are grayed out, making it impossible to stop and start the service manually. Is that normal?

    Once again, thanks for the great utility! I’ve got it up and running and scheduled to my specifications, and it works like a charm!

    –Bruce

    • trparky

      Well, I consider that the ultimate compliment as well. Now if only those guys over at Microsoft could find me and um… perhaps give me a job? LOL

      1. The command should work to create restore points but for whatever reason, it isn’t working for you. As for why? I can’t say. I couldn’t get it to work either hence the reason why I wrote this little gem of a program.
      2. There is only one location that restore points are saved in so that’s not an issue with my program or that command.
      3. There is a folder called “Restore Point Creator” in the Task Scheduler that should hold three tasks. The creation of the restore points is all done using calls to approved Microsoft Windows APIs.
      4. Yes, that’s normal. The Windows Task Scheduler is a critical Windows service and it can’t be disabled.

      Again, thanks for your feedback and your donation. It’s nice to know that people find my program useful.

  • Makro

    i have a question is it possible to Store/restore to another disc, say my external backup? have u tried ? let me know ……

  • Negh

    DOWNLOADING ERROR FOR WEEKS NOW!!!
    PLEASE FIX THIS
    “HTTP/1.1 503 SERVICE TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE ”

    THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. . .

    • trparky

      It should work for you now.

  • Didpoy

    Trés bon logiciel, en espérant qu’il puisse exister un jour Français…

  • bmcdoh

    The automatic “crash” reporter does not seem to be working. I can’t get past the “icatcha” screen for filtering out spammers. At first I thought I was misreading the letters, But, after resetting it several times to clear letters, it still would not work. I also tried the sound option, which was very clear and easy to interpret, but still no way to get past it.

    I was reporting the crashing of both the portable and installed versions. I did however get an older portable version 1.7 build 3, to work fine. Should I just keep using it until there is a new release? thanks Brian

    • trparky

      Can you post the crash details here?

  • Hoody

    just started having that error listed, its been working well all along, did a chkdsk/f/r and sfc/scannow, program still acting up. will try that program mentioned, but funny it seems like some adware deal that this is what is needed. anyway will run it and see, if it doesn’t fix it, I’m NOT going to re install my OS just for this program, I can still make and del restore points via the system protection. and will just un install.

  • Hoody

    ok just ran that tweak tool and it didn’t fix anything, still get the error so I assume this program is done on my system for some reason, everything else works but this one program, and as I said windows will make a restore point. so too bad, but its un-install for me.

  • fos

    Hi Tom…I did write this at the bottom but it should have been a new comment

    Had a thought re your excellent Restore Point Creator program,
    is it possible to perform a system restore at the next system boot if a
    sheduled restore point creation at a set time is missed because the PC
    was turned off?? …fos

  • fos

    Hi,

    I thought I would add some info that folks who experience restoring gives a high percentage of restore failures like I was getting…I wondered if doing the Restore in safe mode might be an answer, so I started a few years ago in Windows 7 to do the restore in “Safe Mode” and ever since then for that PC I have had near perfect success over very many restores, whereas restoring in Standard mode was giving me about 90% failures…very frustrating…probably due to peripherals and / or attached devices…

    well windows 7 booting in Safe Mode was an inconvenience and took some fiddling…but your Program made the process less frustrating..ie just boot and mash F8 and enter SM and then click a link to your program, pick a point and success…however with the arrival of 8.1 it has been a royal PIA, but worth it to get the job done 100% of the time..(touch wood)..

    HOWEVER I was looking on Dr Google for a cure and found a small program called “BootSafe.exe” which makes a perfect companion to your Great “Restore Point Creator”…just 2 mouse clicks and the PC or as in my case Laptop boots in safe mode…and then pick a restore point from your program and the job is successfully and painlessly completed…the SafeBoot program looks after changing the Booting back to normal so there is none of the entering the grossly fiddly and unnecessarily inconvenient MS Safe Mode setup before booting in Safe Mode and then having to enter the cumbersome screen again to change it back to normal Boot

    Now with your Restore Point Creator and Safe Boot, so far I have had a quick, efficient pain free 100% success rate… so, for those folk who find Restoring a hit and miss process, try the above twosome and see if you can achieve the success I have had…

    all the best and thanks for your program Tom…

    fos

    • trparky

      Guess what!!!! Introducing Version 2.6 Build 1.

      Implemented a very important new function that may help in restoring your system to past restore points if attempting to restore in normal Windows fails; “Restore to Selected System Restore Point in Safe Mode”. All you have to do is select a restore point to restore to, press the button and then the program will set your system up to automatically boot into Safe Mode. Once your system comes up into Safe Mode the program will re-launch in Safe Mode, remove the setting to boot your system into Safe Mode, and then start the restoration process back to your pre-selected restore point. It’s a completely seamless operation. You simply select a restore point, press a button, and your system does all the work for you.

      • fos

        Hey Tom…thats just great…the total tool with one click…you are a wizard…I am pleased I took the time to explain what I do…

        Thanks…

        fos

        • fos

          Hmmm…The new program installed and wiped my store of 15 points and reduced storage to a fraction of what was set…as it turns out its OK as I dont need to go back and I have adjusted the storage space..but it was a shock..
          fos

          • trparky

            That happened to my machine as well but I have no idea why it happened. I don’t have any code in the program that would adjust the size of the reserved space without user interaction. Any and all changes to the system require user permission to do so. I have my theories that it may be connected to a Windows Update that was released this month.

          • fos

            I think they have been fiddling Tom…one other thing that is happening is that the Storage space adjustment is not sticking, whether it is done as an auto size increase or a manual size increase…any adjustment reverts back to a very small size..

            One other point Tom…its the “save point at next PC start if PC is not turned on at scheduled point save” in a beta version…I cant see it in the standard release…but I could well be missing it..finding

            Please understand I am not complaining…just trying to help with a few ideas..Thanks…fos

          • trparky

            It was added in version 2.6 Build 2. You will have to update to that version by using the Check for Updates function in the program. Once you do that you will be able to find that functionality in the Schedule a Restore Point tool in the program.

          • fos

            thanks…all sorted
            fos

          • fos

            just one more question plz…I mentioned that I was having trouble with the changed size of the Restore Point from “sticking” to the entered size…(I have been saving correctly)…am I imagining it or have I got it to stick this time by…instead of entering just 20 for 20gb, it seems at the moment to have stayed at 20 after I entered 20.00.. ..I will check tomorrow and let you know

            fos

          • fos

            yes, the size is still 20GB…hmmm well, whatever works is good…also thanks for implementing my idea of booting in safe mode etc. and “create Restore Point at next start if PC not running at scheduled time.”

            I have tested all new functions and for me they work great thanks..

            fos

          • trparky

            OK, I think I know what’s going on. I will be having a fix out for this issue very soon. Just as soon as I can get the code patched and the program compiled and put up on the server.

          • trparky

            The fix is ready to be downloaded. A new version is available. Sorry it took so long. I really had to go back and study my code again.

      • fos

        Tom, did you give any thought to having a choice for the scenario of “if the PC is not running at the sheduled time, then create a point at the next running time…” that would seem a worthwhile improvement… Thanks

        fos

        • trparky

          I have included that in a new build.

  • NIK Gaznik

    ????????? ????? ????????, ?? ??????? ??????? ???? ??????????! The program is very like it, but add the Russian language please!

  • fos

    Hi Tom…I think the setting of restore point storage space for me is broken on each of the 3 computers I was using RPC on…whenever and however and or to what sizeI I set the size of the storage space, it reverts back to about 2gb or close to that size…

    ..do you have any ideas please?

  • fos

    Any thoughts Tom?? I havealso tried setting the size from within windows standard restore point area…I can move it and it is accepted and set by the windows program, but it does not stick…this is a pity as I am left with only being able to keep between 3 – 5 restore points… hmm

    ny help would be appreciated..

    Thanks…fos

  • fos

    I thought I would fill you in Tom…because Storage of restore poimt data cannot be successfully set on my 3 PC’s I have had to remove RPC and have gone back to the manual way of setting and recovering to restore points, (still using SafeBoot )…

    there does seem to be only one problem, and that is that some time in January, some work that was done on the program seems to have broken the adjustment and saving of the size of the available amount of storage area…Its such a great pity…just when all possible required features that anyone could want were in the program and everything seemed perfect, the adjustment of the storage volume became broken ..

    .I have repeatedly tested and deleted and reinstalled on all 3 PC’s until I was blue in the face without joy… I really wanted your RPC program to work

    I have now streamlined the manual method with shortcuts..and it now takes quite a few more steps now and its not anywhere near as convenient, but I can save any number of Restore Points …as many as I could ever want…the size of the storage available is now permanently adjusted…(touch wood)

    Thanks for you help

    fos

    • trparky

      I think what was happening is that due to a bug in the program it was resetting the size of the restore point storage space whenever a restore point was created. That’s why the size always reset. I have fixed that part of the program. I do encourage you to try the program again and see if it fixes the issue. It was happening to me own machine and I have done the testing and it no longer spontaneously resets.

      • fos

        Hi Tom…sorry re the double post…Thanks for understanding, and of course I will give it a good test…I did not see your answer till just now and guess what, I was fiddling with I.E. explorer and bu???red the taskbar settings and I had to do a restore the old fashioned way…what a pain…

        I will keep you posted..

        Regards,

        Fos

  • fos

    I thought I would fill you in Tom…because
    Storage of restore poimt data cannot be
    successfully set on my 3 PC’s I have had to remove
    RPC and have gone back to the manual way of
    setting and recovering to restore points, (still
    using SafeBoot )…

    there does seem to be only one problem, and that
    is that some time in January, some work that was
    done on the program seems to have broken the
    adjustment and saving of the size of the available
    amount of storage area…Its such a great
    pity…just when all possible required features
    that anyone could want were in the program and
    everything seemed perfect, the adjustment of the
    storage volume became broken ..

    .I have repeatedly tested and deleted and
    reinstalled on all 3 PC’s until I was blue in the
    face without joy… I really wanted your RPC
    program to work

    I have now streamlined the manual method with
    shortcuts..and it now takes quite a few more steps
    now and its not anywhere near as convenient, but I
    can save any number of Restore Points …as many
    as I could ever want…the size of the storage
    available is now permanently adjusted…(touch
    wood)

    Thanks for you help

    fos

  • Guest

    OK been havin this error when tryin to make a manual restore point as I said before, nothing I did would “fix” it. so today I decided to try something else.
    I d/led the stand alone portable version, than ran it to see what it would do, well it made the restore point with no error, so OK, I figured it was something to do with the one in the installed folder, so I removed the exe in the program folder and replaced it with the one from the portable folder and all is well :), it now works with NO error popup box when I click on “make a restore point”. didn’t uninstall anything either, just moved the exe file.
    Maybe this will help/work for someone else.

  • fos

    Wow, Tom…how great was that…everything works as it should..the bugs are gone and I just tried a Safe boot restore and it woked perfectly…well done..fos

    • fos

      I will do an update and advise if the storage stays (it has so far) and will advise if the correct number of points are kept…I set it at 15 and its keeping 15…

      the safe boot restore was all done with 2 mouse clicks…one to select the point and one to verify the selection

      thanks again…you have a winner now

      fos

      • trparky

        Yeah, sorry about that. This is a bug that should have never occurred and I deeply apologize for it.

        It took some time and digging in the code to find out where things were going wrong. What with 8,839 lines of code in the program, that’s a lot of code in there. The main window of the program alone has 3,566 lines of code and it has dependencies that nearly 977 lines. You can see where anywhere something may go wrong, I have to go in and do a lot of debugging. I know that may sound like an excuse but it did really take time to look at the code and some serious amounts of testing.

        I was able to go in and put in debug stops to stop the debugger as the creation of restore points was made by the program and I was able to track the flow of the code from function to function. That’s what I discovered, much to my dismay, that it was being caused by a bug that should have never occurred.

        • fos

          Well, I think RPC is amazing now, and certainly worth some more pennies….I cannot even begin to think about lines of code. and how difficult it would be to find a bug….

          Because I now “can”, I use a restore point generated 5 mins (delayed with Startup Delayer) after boot with a small prog. called Quick Restore Maker so I now have a point generated by it 5 mins after boot and then one generated by RPC at 3pm…

          I think that the only feature I would like to have added to yours to make it 100% perfect would be the ability to generate more than one point a day…what do you think, Tom?

          I find it invaluable to have lots of points available because I do a lot of fiddling and generally find at times I need to remove the fiddle…having RP’s available is like having a security blanket..

          I also do an incremental clone backup each day of my Raid 0 /OS with Casper 8 (I’ve been using it since WinXP days) which is brilliant…thats a program worth its weight in gold just like yours is….all of these precautions I take now are because some years ago I lost the lot…it can be devastating…

          fos

          • trparky

            I will certainly work on doing that delayed creation of restore points at user login. I have just the idea of how to be able to do that.

          • fos

            thanks…maybe have a look at the program called “Startup Delayer” (if possible)

          • trparky

            OK, the feature is ready for testing in the public beta update channel. Simply go to Program Options/Settings -> Program Updates Channel and click on Public Betas. You will get asked if you want to agree to testing, say Yes.

          • trparky

            Oh, and yeah… click on Check for Updates.

  • pattyjamas

    I set a maximum of 8 restore points but I see that 12 are in there. Not sure why this occurs. Thoughts? I now just deleted a few to make less than 8 but thought program would do this automatically. Windows 8.1 Great program, thank you…

    • trparky

      The scheduled restore point creation task doesn’t delete restore points based upon the number of restore points on the system, only the main part of the program does. However, if there’s some interest in having this feature included, I’ll work on it.

      • fos

        I have not tried it but isn’t that the task of “keep X number of restore points ” in the options area?…I probably have it wrong

        ?

        fos

        • fos

          I will set 15 and see what happens
          fos

        • trparky

          Actually, you are right, that feature is in there; I was just looking at the wrong part of the code.

          If it isn’t working I’m going to have to look at it as a bug.

      • pattyjamas

        Would enjoy that feature or an option to do such if you ever get time. Thanks

  • kurtsteinbach

    I am having a problem with restore points, and it’s not that restore points aren’t being created or are all being deleted. RPC is working fine. In System on the control panel, the slider that controls the disk space used for restore points keeps being randomly reset from whatever percentage I set it at, back down to 1%, which automatically deletes my restore points above the 1% level. I cannot find any information on it because I keep getting returns and hits on all restore points being deleted or unable to create restore points. That is not what my problem is. My problem is the Disk Space Slider for Restore Points is being reset to 1%, and it’s not being done by me. It does not happen when I run my Disk Imaging software or my Defragging software, at least not consistently. Sometimes the slider is reset when I restart my computer, but not every time. Someone please help, this is driving me nuts. . . .

    • trparky

      Update to the newest version of the program by telling it to check for updates. The issue you’re having is caused by a bug in the program that has been recently fixed.

      • kurtsteinbach

        Thank you. I’m glad to know I’m not going nuts. Well. . . . lol.

  • fos

    hi..

    further to the ? from pattyjamas, I have concluded that the best and easiest way for “myself” to have a set number of restore points is to decide on a number and set the scheduler to create one each day, and then have the scheduler delete old restore points after the number of days that are equal to the maximum days in age that one sets, and that is what happens…

    if you add an extra one I am not 100% sure if it gets tidied up after the set number of days as I have not waited that long…IMHO I would prefer the ability to stipulate an x number of points in the Restore point storage space…but that “option” from the option area of RPC does not seem to work in my setup… probably because I store 2 auto processed points each day, so mine is not a fair test…

    as it is the program is excellent and I am very impressed with the results and its abilities

    fos

  • youngblody

    Hi
    Set 3 restore points but it only saves one did a system check point yesterday windows update today removed this checkpoint in other words it no longer keeps a list of restore points the program is uptodate started about a 10 days ago

    • trparky

      Have you updated to the latest version of the program?

      • youngblody

        I am using V2.6 Build3 just done a system check point and its kept the windows restore point from early today first time in 10 days that its kept a previous restore point may try a reinstall if it plays up again

        • youngblody

          Over night it removed the windows update system check point but left the last restore point reinstalled see what happens next

          • youngblody

            Problem fixed their was not enough space allocated in C drive (SSD) box came up and offered to allocate more space to 20GB which I let it do now restore point stay in place

  • Guest

    Hi. I’m using the latest version. My complain is, that by clicking the shortcut of the program needed around 7 seconds to open, and then, i count 42 (!) seconds until the program reads the restore points, which was only ONE! Is there any way to avoid that waste of time? thanks, and sorry for my english.

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  • Kit

    Older version that WORKS with Windows XP PLEASE!? Where can we find it? Possible to email it to me maybe?

  • Kit McGuire

    Where can I get an older version that does work with Windows XP?

  • Georges PapyNet

    Sorry
    Les Scheduled PR ne se font plus
    Avec la 8.2.4 cela ne fonctionne pas non plus
    Avec la 8.2.2 la tâche se lancait sans rien faire
    Avec la 8.2.4 il y a un code erreur dans le résultat d’exécution 0xFFFFFFF

    Tout fonctionne bien avec la 2.6.10 Portable
    Je n’ai pas pu trouvé la dernière version 2.6
    Bien cordialement
    Georges (MS MVP)

    Traduction Bing
    Sorry
    Scheduled PR are no longer
    This does not work either with the 8.2.4
    With the 8.2.2 the task is launched without doing anything
    With the 8.2.4 there is an error code in the 0xFFFFFFF execution result

    Everything works well with the Portable 2.6.10
    I could not find the latest version 2.6
    Well cordially
    Georges (MS MVP)

    • Georges PapyNet

      Je viens de me rendre compte qu’il y avait 1 à 3 ou 4 processus résidents qu’il est impossible de terminer

      ——————————————

      I just realized that there are 1 to 3 or 4 process residents that it is unable to complete

      • trparky

        I have a new beta version out that’s in testing that should resolve the issue that you’re having.

        • Georges PapyNet

          Hello
          Please give me url to download
          Thanks

          • trparky

            Follow the instructions at the link below…
            http://www.toms-world.org/blog/restore_point_creator/beta

          • Georges PapyNet

            Hello!

            Les premiers essais sur W7 et W8.1 sont positifs.
            J’attends demain pour les confirmer
            Bien cordialement
            Georges

            Trad Bing :

            The first trials on W7 and W8.1 are positive.
            I expect tomorrow to confirm
            Well cordially
            Georges

          • Georges PapyNet

            It’s OK !
            But 3 x this message
            Running As: Système
            Message: (10,8):LogonType:
            Exception Type: System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException

            The exception occurred à Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler.V2Interop.ITaskFolder.RegisterTaskDefinition(String Path, ITaskDefinition pDefinition, Int32 flags, Object UserId, Object password, TaskLogonType LogonType, Object sddl)
            à Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler.TaskFolder.RegisterTaskDefinition(String Path, TaskDefinition definition, TaskCreation createType, String UserId, String password, TaskLogonType LogonType, String sddl)
            à Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler.TaskFolder.RegisterTaskDefinition(String Path, TaskDefinition definition)
            à Restore_Point_Creator.My.MyApplication.addRunTimeTask(String taskName, String taskDescription, String taskEXEPath, String taskParameters)

          • Georges PapyNet

            It’s = with beta 3

          • trparky

            I’ll get a patch out soon.

            The more I think about it the more I think that perhaps there was a Windows update that was released recently that’s at the root of this problem. I don’t remember things like this happening in the past. Perhaps Microsoft changed some things.

          • kurtsteinbach

            I agree with you. I know we had the April Patch Tuesday; however, I check my Windows Update icon in my control panel at least a couple of times each week, and I found several updates (5 or more) on at least two or three occasions since April’s Update Tuesday. My last recorded RPC successfully created scheduled restore point was on 4/28/2015. It was on Friday, the next day and my day off, that I applied the latest batch of MS updates for Windows 8.1, I think. I have my Windows Updates set to download, but let me choose when to install them, so that updating does not occur when I am in the middle of something important. I prefer to install updates when I am present and can monitor, so that I can see and take action if something goes wrong. It decreases the shock of coming home to a messed up computer and wondering why. . . .

          • Georges PapyNet

            Hello!
            It’s OK avec 8.2.10 (Beta 6)
            Georges

    • Georges PapyNet

      Hello!
      It’s OK with 2.8.11 (beta 7)
      Georges

  • pattyjamas

    Somehow in recent program builds the restore point arenot being created on a scheduled basis. And in System Scheduler it had an error of 0XFFFFFFF

    What to do??

    Windows 8.1

    Thanks

    • Georges PapyNet

      Hello Wait the next build

  • Vanya

    Hi there! Thanks for good prog! Is it possible to add such an option for
    “Protecting created Restore Point from automatic system deleting?”
    I have not found a something like “protection option from removing points” among Windows 7 itself, perhaps it can be done standard tools? Anyway I would like to see this option in your program! Thank you!
    I use Version 2.8 Build 4 stable
    Windows 7 Home Basic 64’x

  • Hoody

    seems after the latest W8 security updates the program again gives me the error when trying to do a manual restore point, I deleted all the restore points myself, than wanted to run a new one after all the MS updates, that’s when I started getting the error again.

    • trparky

      What error are you receiving?

      • Hoody

        is OK again,

        I made a restore point using the windows restore point maker, than opened restore point creator, and tried it, it made the restore point again :). I think maybe deleting ALL the restore points within the program, and than trying to run the manual must have done something. but it seems to be OK again. So maybe it wasn’t the security updates, dono, don’t matter now.

        BTW I also D/L’ed the installer again and ran that, than did the re-boot as the popup asked for W8.

        The error was that big pop up that I had once before that gave all kinds of ways to try and fix the issue, all of which would be more harmful than helpful.

  • Georges PapyNet

    2.9.1

    Hello!

    While PR is created, there is this error message in the application log events

    I did do a repair install from the media without success W8.1

    ———————————————————————————————-
    Erreur 14/05/2015 08:55:05 System Restore Point Creator 0 Aucun “Running As: Claude
    Message: L’opération arithmétique a provoqué‚ un dépassement de capacité.
    Exception Type: System.OverflowException

    • trparky

      What exact part of the program were you using at the time this issue came up? Did you have any prior restore points on the system?

      • Georges PapyNet

        I must ask my friend, but I know it’s time to start pc (he has a task for each day starting time 00.00) and normally it keeps 10 days

  • alan

    I just installed Restore Point Creator on an HP Pavilion DV7 running windows 7 with 6 gig of RAM and 500 gig drive. After successful installation, I created a custom restore point which appeared to work correctly. However, when I tried to retrieve it, it wasn’t there. Then I created a system check point. Same result. Seems like it doesn’t work. Any tricks I’m over looking? I have 173 gig set aside for storage space. Now neither my windows 7 software or the third party software for storing restore points works. Suggestions?

  • Daz

    Hi Tom, Just thought I’d drop by & thank you for the restore point creator, it has some very useful features, an absolute gem in my book. Thankyou for your time & effort, its appreciated (” ,)

    • trparky

      Thank you.

  • BELET Ludovic

    Sorry, but for me, everything work except Scheduled tasks. When I select Wednesday, it’s automatically come back to Saturday everytime I quit the program and load it again. What can I do to solve this please ? I’m using Windows 8.1 x64 Home with Media Center.

  • BELET Ludovic

    Hello. Everything works well except scheduled tasks, when I select Wednesday, it automatically come back to Saturday when I quit program and launch it later. How can I solve this please ? I use Windows 8.1 Update x64 Home with Media Center.

  • Dag Chr. Christensen

    I installed Restore Point Creator in Windows 10. I am using screen resolution 3840 x 2160. The Restore Point Creator window is far away too small. All other applications size are fine. Are there anything I (or you) can do to make the window larger so it became readable?

  • gerald oates

    can this be set to create at every startup I had my win8.1 that way but with win 10 I have no clue how to thanks for your work I’m 75 and just a bit behind on puter things

    • trparky

      Yes, it can. There’s an option in the program to do so. Program Options/Settings -> Create Restore Point at User Logon

  • Jeff Johansen

    Hey, nice app! Any chance to add a function or a utility to make a back up of the RP to another drive or USB thumb? My apologies if this feature is already part of your program, just started using it today!

  • DannyJ

    I have 2 Win 10 installations, one on drive c and the other on drive d. I would like to exclude viewing the restore points from the other installation like the native restore point program from windows does. Would this be possible?

  • Charles Maou

    When I try and send a message I put in the box the correct captch number but it always tells me it is wrong captcha text??????

  • Charles Maou

    Will restore point creator make automatic restore points when windows makes its auto updates?

  • deus-ex

    Hi Tom,

    thank you for providing us with this great application, I’m loving it. Please add the ability to increase the font size. The program interface is hardly readable on higher resolutions of modern monitors. For example I use an 28″ monitor with a 3840 x 2160 resolution. Thank you very much.

    • deus-ex

      Tested latest release 3.4 Build 17. Unfortunately when enabling highres DPI support for Windows 10 and restarting the application the interface & font resolution remains unchanged. Windows 10 Pro x64 Build 1511. Please get back if you require any additional information. Thank you.

      • trparky

        When you right-click on the executable file and choose properties, is the checkbox checked on the Compatibility tab?

        • deus-ex

          Sorry for late reply, I just checked, compatibility was set to off. Upon starting Restore Point Creator today it auto-updated to v3.4 build 21 public beta 4, high-res DPI is working fine now. Thank you very much! Finally I can read the interface again. 🙂

  • Bert Fabeetz

    I would like to make a couple of suggestions. I fix computers for a living and when an app reads “portable,” I do not expect it to leave any trace, either on the HD or in the registry, when run from a USB stick. This app insists on creating it’s own folder under Users. Until this is fixed, it is not truly portable – IMHO. I would also like to suggest giving the user the ability to choose the restore point location rather than automatically changing (if necessary) the user’s disk space allocated for restore point creation. Fix those two issues and this little app gets my 5 stars.

    • trparky

      Then I’m going to have to modify the type of package that I call it; a “No-Installer” package if you will. Right now I call it a portable package because it’s not wrapped in an installer but rather a ZIP file instead. The program writes a lot of preferences to the system including program preferences and whatnot. I’ll admit, that’s not very portable; I agree with you there. As for changing the program to be more portable and leave nothing behind, well… I could include a cleanup tool to delete any and all saved preferences from the system since I know what and where the program writes settings to.

    • trparky

      But as far as changing it so that it doesn’t save any of those preferences to the registry it would require a massive change to much of the code and that’s not exactly a prospect that I would look forward to doing.

    • trparky

      As for where it actually saves restore points, that’s completely up to Windows itself; I have absolutely no control over that part of System Restore. Think of System Restore Point Creator as a wrapper program for all of the Windows APIs that have to do with System Restore. It simply puts all of the things that you can do with System Restore into one easy to use program with all of what you need in one place. It uses the same APIs that Microsoft themselves use to create System Restore Points and so I’m just as limited to what I can and can’t do that Microsoft is.

      • Bill

        Tommy P. I just read your note that you think you found the bug that was deleting perviously made RP’s.
        As you know, I’ve written you about that problem plaugeing me
        Hopefully this will put that problem to bed.
        Thanks for your work on this problem
        Bill@w9ol.com or Bill@billnjudy.com

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  • Ron

    I just downloaded 3.5 build 2. Where’s the new icon? I still see the old one.

    January 14, 2016 — Version 3.5 Build 2

    This is a minor update. Changed the program’s icon.

    • trparky

      The change is very subtle, hence the reason why I’m only deploying the Build 2 update to users of Build 1 as a minor update.

    • trparky

      Minor updates aren’t absolutely required, think of them as optional updates. When I release a new version that has more than just a change to the icon I will release it as a major update which is distributed to all users.

  • Bert Fabeetz

    I wish this utility would give advanced users a choice on where to store restore points, rather than defaulting to the system settings. Any chance? Or is there an INI hack? Thanks ! ! !

    • trparky

      Unfortunately I am bound by the System Restore APIs that Microsoft has built into Windows itself. Think of System Restore Point Creator as a front-end for all of the APIs or Application Programming Interfaces that Windows has for System Restore. I can only do what Windows allows me to do.

      If you are thinking what I think you’re thinking, that is to make permanent restore points, then that’s not possible. System Restore isn’t meant to be a way to keep a permanent backup or any kind of long-term backup. System Restore is meant for situations in which something may have gone wrong with your system as part of a driver update, software installation, or even a Windows Update and allows you to be able to go back in time to a point in the near past to be able to recover your system to a working condition if said “bad thing” happened.

      If you need that kind of recovery type I suggest using something like Macrium Reflect Free which allows you to create a disk image that you can then store elsewhere to be able to restore back to using a system boot disk that the utility can make for you.

  • pstein

    When the reserved SRP space on a partition is (nearly) full and I want to create a new one then Toms RPCreator prompts me for action.
    Hmm, why does Toms RPCreator not act like other SRP creator software:
    If there is no more space in the SRP space then automatically kick out the oldest SRP without bothering the user.

    Can this (at least as option) be implemented) in the next release?

    • trparky

      Windows will automatically kick out the oldest restore point in order to make room for a new one if and when you run out of reserved space. However, I wrote this program to give you, the user, far more control over how Windows System Restore works; that’s why this program exists. If you don’t want System Restore Point Creator to check for this simply go to Program Options/Settings and uncheck the “Check System Drives for Full Shadow Storage at Program Launch” option. Now the system will automatically kick out the oldest when you run out of space.

  • Mark

    I’m running on Windows 10 with Surface 4 Pro. All updates installed.

    The program works fine, but…
    Since installing, I find my pc is on when I get up in the morning, and wakes up more than I would like.
    How can I restore the power settings that were changed? (or at least understand them)
    Does uninstalling your program reset the power changes?
    Thank you!

  • Jrdlvt

    This app works well, but overtime, Avira detected its activity as of a virus/malware (HEUR/APC (Cloud).

    • trparky

      I’m going to contact Avira and see if they can whitelist my program.

      • Jrdlvt

        Any luck?

  • Allemann Louis

    I’m running RPC on 2 machines (W10 64bits) intalled c:program files (x86)
    My restore points older than 15 days are systematically deleted
    Scheduled RP every 3 days
    No deletion task
    Keep 30 restore points
    Shadow storage space used 33% (9.3 Gbs out of 28Gbs)
    Max age set to 120 days
    cann you please explain? Thanks for your help

    • trparky

      It has something to do with Windows 10, so far I’ve not been able to get Windows 10 to behave but I’m still looking into it.

  • Kevin

    Hi Tom..Foss/Kev here.. since you inserted Safe boot restore some time ago and have been using it frequently, thanks very much, however my Restore process in safe boot which is how I need to restore now stops at safe boot and leaves me in Safe boot without restoring..the first time it happened it removed Restore Point Creator …
    I do use the program a lot, but now without safeboot restore I cant do so and I have to resort to using the safe boot program I mentioned to you way back.. It may have been broken in a recent update…can I use an earlier version somehow without it updating? ..any ideas Tom..

    Thanks foss kev

    • trparky

      I have a new public beta version out that has some fixes in it, perhaps you would like to try it out some time?

      • Kevin

        Could you point me in that direction please Tom

        thanks Kev

        • Kevin

          Its OK Tom… I used my eyes and have loaded a Beta and its working as smooth as silk… Faultless. its a keeper!

          Thanks
          Kev

  • L.

    Thanks Tom, working fine on Windows 10. Exelent work.

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  • Walter Grzelewski

    Just installed it and have two problems. Running Windows 10 on a Dell Venu 8 tablet.
    1) Upon creating a restore point, program exits to desktop. Is that supposed to do that?
    2) Under “Program options/Settings” , Interface too small, enable this option. I have to use a stylus on my tablet. Was hoping Lettering and buttons would enlarge, but nothing happens.

    • trparky

      1. You can change that behavior by going to Program Options/Settings, Additional Options and Settings, and then uncheck “Close Program After Restore Point is Created”.
      2. Right-click on the Restore Point Creator shortcut and click Properties. Go to the Compatibility tab and make sure that the “Disable display scaling on high DPI settings” is checked.

  • Tukantin

    This is a very interesting program and a very well done job for what is proposed. But still I have not found a restoration manager able to save the points externally. This is what would differs a restore manager of native Windows restorer. And that would solve the hopeless problem of to search for a specific point and discover that it was deleted to make room for other useless points.

  • D Murphy

    McAfee WebAdvisor is warning me that “When we visited this site (your site), we found it exhibited one or more risky behaviors” and then Threat Detail Web Category:
    Malicious Downloads.

    I have used your Restore point creator for some time now and
    will continue to do so but I thought you might want to contact McAfee because
    their warning will probably deter newcomers.
    Thanks for your good work

  • Andreas Maurer

    First of all I want to thank you for your great work – it’s a real useful tool. But I would like to ask you, whether a german language.ini ist available too? Best regards, Andreas.

    • trparky

      Unfortunately as one who doesn’t speak German, I can’t do the translations. I would like to be able to do it but with no one to translate the many things in the program, I can’t do it.

  • Jerome M.

    Hello Tom,
    Just a little request.
    Is it possible to add param/arguments to your amazing program (iam a technician and i use it every days) to make it compatible to batch files or scripts for create restore point with progressbar.
    Thanks for advance.

    • trparky

      I will get back to you regarding this. There are command line switches but off hand I don’t know them, I’ll have to look at the code again.

    • trparky

      Executing the program with “-createrestorepointcustomname” will prompt the user for a custom name for their restore point and then create it. Executing the program with “-createrestorepoint” will create a restore point with the default restore point name which is “System Checkpoint made by System Restore Point Creator”.

  • str8arrow

    I am AGGRAVATED by Windows 10…the latest aggro is finding out that
    Windows is deleting my restore points at >17d (although there’s still
    plenty of space allocated for saving my RPs!!!)

    So I have a few questions:
    1) How often do I need to run RP Creator to prevent Windows from deleting my Restore Points at bootup?
    Does the RP Creator only stop Windows from deleting RPs for a single reboot
    cycle (each time it runs) or does it change the setting until the next
    Windows Update changes it back to default?

    2) How do I change this setting manually – is it a registry setting or another setting ?? (ie can I delete the task or change the # days from 17 to 999999 by editing the registry or making some other change(s))
    I want to change this setting manually (in the registry or wherever else I might need to
    make modifications)…but I can’t find any info on where Windows stores
    this info (it isn’t in taskschd.msc and I can’t find a registry
    setting). I’m at a loss…HELP!

    Can anyone point me in the right direction…please?
    Thanks in advance…str8arrow
    *if you have any info you can reach me at email address removed

    • trparky

      Have you upgraded to the latest version of the program? Version 4.0 is out now with some promising fixes in place for Windows 10.

      • trparky

        Once the changes to the system has been done by Restore Point Creator, the changes should be set and be set permanently. There’s a scheduled task that needs to be disabled that appears to be the reason why restore points are getting deleted.

        • Doug Collins

          The scheduled task you disable (SR) is the basic System Restore task that creates automatic scheduled system restore points. So I assume that there is no separate background task that is deleting restore points older than 17 days? – and that the deletion routine is an integral part of the SR scheduled task?

          Which I assume is why your “Restore Point Creator” utility is required to bypass this problem – to create scheduled restore point without triggering the deletion of restore points older than 17 days? Or am I missing something?

          • trparky

            No, there is no separate background task that’s deleting the restore points older than 17 days. The same background task that’s creating the restore points seems to be the same task that’s deleting the restore points. Which is bad.

            I don’t know why Microsoft programmed this task to do that, all I know is that it’s pretty stupid that they did. The purpose of the program (System Restore Point Creator) is to give you, the user, more control than ever before over System Restore.

  • Elwood Blues

    How about getting the program right BEFORE relasing a new version.You’re an ASS!

    • trparky

      I don’t see you trying to accommodate thousands of different system configurations with thousands of software configuration issues that could come up. I don’t see you writing any software! Before you call me an ass, how about you try and write some software and find out how difficult it can be when you have no idea how someone’s system will react when it has X or Y software installed that could interact with other software in several different ways.

      • MikeW

        Especially as you’re doing it for free. Jeez. Thanks for all your efforts, Tom– no doubt there’s an ass here, but it surely isn’t you.

  • patrick sando

    upgraded my w 8.1 system to w 10. When I try to schedule a task to run weekly I get this error message: There was an error creating/updating your task, please try again. Any help in resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated

    . It worked great in w 8.1. Also downloaded the new W 10 version, but still got the same error.

    • trparky

      Can you check the Event Viewer for any errors?

      • patrick sando

        Log Name: System Restore Point Creator
        Source: System Restore Point Creator
        Date: 06/29/16 1:37:22 PM
        Event ID: 234
        Task Category: (3)
        Level: Error
        Keywords: Classic
        User: N/A
        Computer: mypc
        Description:
        The server responded with an HTTP error.
        There was an error, but I can’t make any sense of it. I am not proficient in using event viewer. Thanxx for any help….

        Event Xml:

        234
        2
        3
        0x80000000000000

        27
        System Restore Point Creator
        mypc

        The server responded with an HTTP error.

      • patrick sando

        Didn’t make too much sense to me. I am not proficient in translating these events. Thanxx for any help..

  • patrick sando

    Found another way to schedule restore points at different days of the week by using Task Scheduler.

    • trparky

      Are you talking about doing it the manual way? That’s one way of doing it but most people don’t know how to do it so I wrote this program to do it for them.

      • patrick sando

        What program???

        • trparky

          System Restore Point Creator, the program that this page you commented on talks about.

          • patrick sando

            I kept getting an error when I tried to schedule a RP. That’s what started this discussion.

          • trparky

            Have you recently tried? A couple of versions back I put in a fix that seemed to have fixed an issue for a great many people. If you do indeed get the error again, please send me the details. I want to fix whatever is causing the issue for you.

          • patrick sando

            It seems that the problem occurs under W 10. It was working perfectly in W8.1. Upgraded a couple of weeks ago and the problem came up.

            The error message is: There was an error creating/updating your task, please try again.

            Refer to my previous post for the error in Event Viewer.

            Sorry I can’t help more.

          • trparky

            What version of System Restore Point Creator do you have installed? You can find out by going to About in the program and clicking on “About this Program”.

          • patrick sando

            Version 4.4 Build 1.

          • trparky

            Also, if you can, please send me an email by going to About and clicking on “Contact the Developer”. This is the best way to get into contact with me.

          • trparky

            Ah yes, I see a report a bit down this page. I have a beta version out that has more debugging code in it, I’m working with another person in trying to track down where the issue is occurring. It’s difficult to find out why the issue is happening for some users but for a majority of users it’s working fine.

  • kurtsteinbach

    I’ve had this problem now with RPC for a few weeks not making restore points on the daily schedule I set. it happens at random. Every time I set it and it says creation of the schedule was successful, I check back a few days later and the restore point that day was created, but not after that. I have to set it again to make daily restore points. What I setup is no longer set. I set it to daily at 20:10 or 20:15, wake the computer and I check the box for if task is missed. When it says creation of task successful, I just checked a few minutes later, and it’s still set. We’ll see if restore points are created tonight. I’m getting tired of this. I installed RPC, so restore points would be automatically created at a time when I’m occupied and to make things easier for me. Kinda self-defeating if I have to keep checking on it and create them myself. Ya know what I mean. Please help. . . .

  • pstein

    I appreciated your Restore Point Creator.

    I assume your tool stores the current preferences somewhere in Registry or User directory.

    However I want to use it from USB flash drive.
    Could you introduce an option to store the preferences in an *.ini file in the installation directory (on USB flash drive)?

    This way I could have them available on all computer where I plug in the USB flash drive.

    At least there should be a way to export and import them into/from file.

    Thank you.
    Peter

    • trparky

      Yes, the program does save much of the settings in the user folder and system registry. As for moving the settings to an INI file, it would require close to a complete overhaul of the program’s code which is not a prospect I enjoy thinking about. Saving settings is a possibility right now, it saves close to 95% of the settings used by the program. You can find it by going to Program Options/Settings, Configuration Backup/Restore.

  • Jack Alexander

    I’m a retired old dude that tests software for a hobby and I can’t say how many times this program has saved me from re-installing my machine. Many thanks to the author. And this morning’s auto update was wonderful. Corrected the window that says ‘do you want to delete this backup?’ as it was coming up underneath the program window and had to be clicked up from the tray to click yes. Many thanks again!

    • trparky

      Thank you, it’s nice to hear from my users.

  • Jack Alexander

    I’m a retired old dude that tests software for a hobby and I can’t say
    how many times this program has saved me from re-installing my machine.
    Many thanks to the author. And this morning’s auto update was wonderful.
    Corrected the window that says ‘do you want to delete this backup?’ as
    it was coming up underneath the program window and had to be clicked up
    from the status bar to click yes. Many thanks again! This is an edit…

  • Beakers Cool

    After a rootkit scan Kaspersky Internet Security reports RestorePoint Creator.exe to contain a virus (Trojan.MSIL.Agent.abzen, file was quarantined and on loading the zip file (from this site) and scanning the same virus is present in thee zip file.

    • trparky

      I do know of the issue, please see this page (https://www.toms-world.org/blog/virus-reports) for an explanation of what’s going on.

    • trparky

      I have submitted the files to Kaspersky for analysis, they have stated it was a false positive and that it will be fixed in the next update.

  • Jack Alexander

    I have a problem with the latest. When I go to delete unneeded restore points they get removed from the list but stay on the disk. The only way I’ve found so far is to resize the restore point size on disk to a small number and then they go away. Win 8.1 x64 HP Elitebook…I otherwise love the program. I test software for a hobby and I really need a program like this. (Hobby since I’m a retired old phart.) I also use tweaking.com’s registry back up in parallel to make sure I can fix my mistakes….

  • Tofie

    Hi is there anyway to create a restore point using a batch files?thanks

    • trparky

      You can use any of the command line tools that the program has in it to run it from a bat file. For some ideas, go to About and then click on Command Line Arguments.

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  • Starsdust

    I am wondering if its possible to add the size on disk any restore point takes. Tx

    • trparky

      There is currently no way to do this, Windows doesn’t expose this data.

  • LEANNA YOUMANS

    Good article, Thanks!

  • sov44

    Please update for WinPE Windows 8-10 [x86x64] to restore control points Windows 7

    • trparky

      The program is compiled against version 4.0 of the Microsoft .NET Framework. There are newer versions of the .NET Framework but compiling against them would make it so that the program wouldn’t run on Windows Vista systems.

  • lenraphael

    Any recommendations to improve odds that the restore process in Windows 10 will succeed?

    Of the several dozen times I’ve tried to restore points created using built in windows function, the restore process usually fail.

    Today, a buddy looked over some of my workstations and noticed two things that he thought might be the problem:

    1. I use CC cleaner and windows disk cleanup toolup to clean too aggressively. He thinks cleaning appdatalocal temp folder of users deletes info that restore needs.
    2. other thing he noticed was that I change ctrl panel, system advanced, envoirment variable “temp” and “tmp” to c:temp. CC cleaner is cleaning that nightly. And there might be more than one user logging in.

    Len Raphael
    Oakland

    • trparky

      What issues are you seeing?

      • lenraphael

        More the opposite of issues. No error messages when creating restore points. Restoral usually fails with different error codes. I don’t lose anything. Just can’t restore to an earlier point. I’ll do another test later this week if I can and post the error when the restore failed.

        • lenraphael

          Here’s an example that came up after i posted. Before trying a restore got a message about missing a specific .dll that i think relates to a logitech mouse driver. I rebooted (if i recall correctly, maybe i didnt it was late) safe mode and used windows function to select my last good restore point of a month ago. PC tried to restore. After almost an hour it prompted me to reboot. “System Restore did not complete successfully. Your files and settings not changed. Details: System Restore failed … Source: AppxStaging Destination: %ProgramFiles%WindowsApps An unspecified error occurred during System Restore. (0x80070091)”

          That was on a Surface Pro, Windows 10.0.14393 Build 14393 (have to confirm that since i’m doing to non destructive reinstall of Windows 10 to that machine at the moment and can’t verify.)

          • jepjr

            I’ve got the same problem with win10. Have heard it comes from a January 2017 systems update. I decided to try Restore Point Creator and discovered that it gives me the same error (0x80070091) I get from win10. Have you tried Restore Point Creator and had better luck?

  • Bert Jennings

    Does anyone know if there is a way to designate the location of the backup registry? I do not use the standard Windows backup utility and would like very much to be able to store a registry backup to the location of my choice.

  • Rosa

    Hi,

    I updated to Windows 10 Anniversary Update and had that Microsoft crap 🙁

    Restore Point Creator has dissapeared from my PC. I’m trying to install it again but it’s not possible. Is there any way to solve it?

    Thanks.