Solved "Automatically create daily restore point" failing

Wisewiz · Nov 13, 2023

I've been using this:

Automatically Create System Restore Point on Schedule in Windows 10

How to Automatically Create System Restore Point on Schedule in Windows 10

www.tenforums.com

for years successfully, and it's still working perfectly on my backup machine, but on my main machine, Task Scheduler reports that it has run successfully for that day, but no new restore point is in the list of restore points. Running the task "on demand" works, and a new point is added to the list, but then the next day and the day after that, I check and there's no new restore point.

I have used restore points successfully many times, and the only failures have resulted from my forgetting to stop Malwarebytes from running when I launch System Restore. I image daily with MR, but, as Ghot always says, You can never have too much backup!

Any suggestions for kick-starting my scheduled task welcome.

Brink · Nov 13, 2023

Hello Dan,

Double check to make sure the SystemRestorePointCreationFrequency DWORD value is still set to 0 in Registry Editor below for this task to work properly. An update may have reset it.

Change System Restore Point Creation Frequency in Windows 11 Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to increase or decrease the system restore point creation frequency to what you want in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Turning on system protection for a drive allows System Restore to include the drive when restore points are created so you can undo undesired system...

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Wisewiz · Nov 13, 2023

Well, I'll be gobsmacked! I thought I had that .reg file in my battery of always-use tweaks, but I must not have used it the other day when I did a repair in-place. Thank you, sir.

Is there (yet) a Windows 11 version of the tutorial I cited from W10 Forums above?

Brink · Nov 13, 2023

Wisewiz said:
Is there (yet) a Windows 11 version of the tutorial I cited from W10 Forums above?

No, but it's the same in Windows 11.

Wisewiz · Nov 13, 2023

I checked the other machine just now, and sure enough, that reg value was set to 0 there, so that explains the difference in the RP behaviors of the two machines completely. Thanks again. Always in your debt, good sir.