Backup and Restore Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in Windows 11


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This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off system protection to create restore points and do a system restore for drives in 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 changes by reverting to a previous point in time.

System Restore monitors system changes and saves the system state as a restore point. If a system problem develops as a result of a system change, the user can return the system to a previous state using the data from a restore point.

Restore points are created to let users select a previous system state. Each restore point contains the required information to restore the system to the selected state. Restore points are created before key changes are made to the system.

System Restore automatically manages the disk space that is allocated for restore points. It purges the oldest restore points to make room for new ones. System Restore allocates space based on the size of the hard disk and the version of Windows that the computer runs, as shown in the following table. You can adjust the maximum disk space per drive used for system protection.

Use System Restore to make restore points when you install a new app, driver, or Windows update, and when you create a restore point manually. System Restore does not restore user data or documents, so it will not cause users to lose their files, e-mail, browsing history, or favorites. Restoring will remove apps, drivers, and updates installed after the restore point was made. System Restore is also made available to users in the Windows Recovery Environment or safe mode, making it easier for them to restore their computers to a state before problems occurred.


You must be signed in as an administrator to turn on or off system protection for a drive.

System protection can only be turned on for drives that are formatted using the NTFS file system.


Turning off system protection for a drive will delete all restore points created for the drive.

It is highly recommended to leave system protection turned on for your Windows drive (ex: C: ) to quickly restore Windows 11 back to a previous restore point as needed.

Restore points are not meant to take the place of backups and system images. Instead, restore points are only an extra short term method of recovery to have handy as needed. Be sure to always keep updated backups and system images to be safe.



Contents

  • Option One: Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in System Properties
  • Option Two: Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in PowerShell
  • Option Three: Turn Off System Protection for All Drives using REG file





OPTION ONE

Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in System Properties


This option is not available while in safe mode.


1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on About on the right side. (see screenshot below)

System_Protection_System_Properties-1.png

3 Click/tap on the System protection link on the left side. You can now close Settings if you like. (see screenshot below)

System_Protection_System_Properties-2.png

4 Under Protection Settings, select a drive (ex: "C") you want to turn on or off protection for, and click/tap on the Configure button. (see screenshot below)

System_Protection_System_Properties-3.png

5 Do step 6 (on) or step 7 (off) below for what you want.


6 Turn On System Protection for Drive

A) Under Restore Settings, select (dot) Turn on system protection. (see screenshot below)​

You will not be able to Turn on system protection for other drives if system protection is not turned on for the Windows "System" drive.


B) Under Disk Space Usage, adjust the Max usage slider to the maximum disk space you want used for system protection.​

The more Max usage you set, the more restore points you will have available for the drive. Of course, this will use more free space on the drive, so be sure to set an amount that balances your needs.


C) Click/tap on OK.​

System_Protection_System_Properties-4.png


7 Turn Off System Protection for Drive

A) Under Restore Settings, select (dot) Disable system protection, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)​

System_Protection_System_Properties-5.png

B) Click/tap on Yes to confirm. (see screenshot below)​

System_Protection_System_Properties-6.png





OPTION TWO

Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in PowerShell


1 Open Windows Terminal (Admin), and select Windows PowerShell.

2 Type the command below you want to use into Windows Terminal (Admin), and press Enter. (see screenshots below)

(Turn on System Protection for drive)​
Enable-ComputerRestore -Drive "<drive letter>:\"

OR​

(Turn off System Protection for drive)​
Disable-ComputerRestore -Drive "<drive letter>:\"

Substitute <drive letter> in the command above with the actual drive letter (ex: "C") you want to turn on or off system protection for.

For example: Enable-ComputerRestore -Drive "C:\"

If you would like to turn on or off system protection for multiple drives at once, then you can add a comma, space, and another drive letter followed by a colon and a backslash and enclosed in quotation marks like below for both the "C" and "D" drives.

For example: Enable-ComputerRestore -Drive "C:\", "D:\"



3 You can now close Windows Terminal (Admin) if you like.

Disable_System_Protection_PowerShell.png

Enable_System_Protection_PowerShell.png







OPTION THREE

Turn Off System Protection for All Drives using REG file


1 Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below.

Turn_off_System_Protection_for_all_drives.reg


(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SPP\Clients]
"{09F7EDC5-294E-4180-AF6A-FB0E6A0E9513}"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore]
"RPSessionInterval"=dword:00000000

2 Save the .reg file to your desktop.

3 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

4 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

5 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


 

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During a Windows Install, I run a whole series of .reg files (and batch files) to turn several things on or off, in Windows. like I may turn Hibernate OFF, but turn some other feature ON.
Going back a ways, I thought you said you could not write a script for setting the System Restore feature to "ON" for Drive C:
If not a .reg script, how about a Batch file? I thought I saw a command to do that, which could maybe be written into a Batch file.

I'm sorry, but I'm just trying to simplify my Installs, as much as I can with the use of Batch Files and Scripts.
Now, assuming that I could indeed turn System Restore ON, for drive C: with a batch file, then how would I set the GB of drive space to use for the restore points. Or would Win-11 just set a default value for that?
I know.....?'s ?'s ?'s. Does it ever end?

Happy 2023!
TM :cool:
 
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Were they included in a Windows Backup or system image?

If you included the drive they are on in system protection, then they could get included for that drive.

It's just that it's usually not included if on the OS drive at the default "C:\Users" folder location.
Yes, they were included in a Windows Backup. But then I would expect it saying: Previous versions come from File History or from restore points or from Backup and Restore.

But I can go to sleep peacefully now :) Thank you!

One more question about System Restore. What's the point of turning on System Restore for non-system drives? What exactly does that do?
 

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One more question about System Restore. What's the point of turning on System Restore for non-system drives? What exactly does that do?

Does it even matter? System Restore has always been a nebulous, unreliable feature. The best thing to do is to turn it off completely and get with an imaging program for your OS drive and a file-based backup program for your data.
 

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Does it even matter? System Restore has always been a nebulous, unreliable feature. The best thing to do is to turn it off completely and get with an imaging program for your OS drive and a file-based backup program for your data.
Agreed. Creating updated system images is the most reliable backup method.

System Restore with restore points are ok to undo something recently, but they are not always reliable.
 

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I have been occasionally looking at the actual usage of System Restore, it went up to 13 GB, I just looked again and it was 0 GB. I wonder what makes the actual usage go up and down like that?
 

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To delete all restore points (same effect as clicking on the Delete button that appears in Option One, Step 6), you can run this from an elevated command prompt or from an elevated PowerShell window:
vssadmin delete shadows /all

To delete all but the most recent restore point, it is possible to use Disk Cleanup, but I wrote a VBScript (see below) that generates a batchfile and opens the batchfile with notepad. Next, in notepad, you can remove only those specific vssadmin delete shadow=<ShadowID> commands from the batchfile that would otherwise delete those specific restore points you do NOT want to be deleted. By doing this, you can effectively choose which restore points are going to be deleted when, next, you run the batchfile (run it as Admin, that is). Don't forget to save your changes in notepad before you run the batchfile. :-)
Notes:
• The info that appears next to the CreationTime is the Type, SequenceNumber and Description (in that order).​
• Lines that only have a CreationTime are retrieved from the output of the vssadmin list shadows command.​
So, the ShadowID in each vssadmin delete shadows /shadow=<ShadowID> command that appears directly below this same CreationTime is retrieved from this same output.​
(To delete only the oldest shadow copy of a specific volume, see the example in the article linked above.)

To see storage space used, allocated space and maximum space for System Protection:
vssadmin list shadowstorage

To change the maximum limit:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=<ForVolumeSpec> /on=<OnVolumeSpec> /maxsize=<MaxSizeSpec>
(To remove the maximum limit, omit /maxsize=<MaxSizeSpec> in the above command.)

Here is my VBScript, that you can copy-paste in notepad and save as a .vbs file:
Code:
Dim c, i, s, sID, sDate, sFilePath, oShellApp, oSortedList, oWshShell, oExe, oSWbemDateTime, oRPs, o, oFSO, oFile
If WScript.Arguments.Length = 0 Then
  Set oShellApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
  oShellApp.ShellExecute "wscript.exe", """" & WScript.ScriptFullName & """ a", "", "runas", 1
Else
  Set oSortedList = CreateObject("System.Collections.SortedList")
  Set oWshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
  Set oExe = oWshShell.Exec("vssadmin list shadows")
  Set oWshShell = Nothing
  s = ""
  c = True
  While c
    Do Until Left(s, 46) = "   Contained 1 shadow copies at creation time:"
      If oExe.StdOut.AtEndOfStream Then
        c = False
        Exit Do
      End If
      s = oExe.StdOut.ReadLine
    Loop
    If c Then
      If oExe.StdOut.AtEndOfStream Then
        MsgBox "ERROR!", , WScript.ScriptFullName
        WScript.Quit
      End If
      sDate = Mid(s, 48)
      s = oExe.StdOut.ReadLine
      If Left(s, 23) <> "      Shadow Copy ID: {" Then
        MsgBox "ERROR!", , WScript.ScriptFullName
        WScript.Quit
      End If
      sID = Mid(s, 24, 36)
      oSortedList.Add CDate(sDate), vbCrLF & "vssadmin delete shadows /shadow=" & sID & vbCrLF
    End If
  Wend
  Set oExe = Nothing
  Set oSWbemDateTime = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemDateTime")
  Set oRPs = GetObject("winmgmts:root/default").InstancesOf("SystemRestore")
  For Each o in oRPs
    oSWbemDateTime.value = o.CreationTime
    oSortedList.Add oSWbemDateTime.GetVarDate, o.RestorePointType & "  " & o.SequenceNumber & "  " & o.Description
  Next
  Set oSWbemDateTime = Nothing
  Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  sFilePath = oFSO.GetParentFolderName(oFSO.GetFile(Wscript.ScriptFullName)) & "\delete-individual-RestorePoints.bat"
  Set oFile = oFSO.CreateTextFile(sFilePath)
  For i = 0 To oSortedList.Count - 1
    s = oSortedList.GetKey(i)
    If Not IsNumeric(Left(s, 2)) Then s = " " & s
    If (Mid(s, 11, 1) = " ") And (Not IsNumeric(Mid(s, 12, 2))) Then s = Left(s, 11) & " " & Mid(s, 12)
    oFile.WriteLine(":: " & s & "  " & oSortedList.GetByIndex(i))
  Next
  oFile.Close
  Set oSortedList = Nothing
  Set oFile = Nothing
  Set oFSO = Nothing
  Set oShellApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
  oShellApp.ShellExecute "notepad.exe", """" & sFilePath & """"
End If
 

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Is it Possible to get On RegFile

Turn_on_System_Protection_for_all_drives.reg
 

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Is it Possible to get On RegFile

Turn_on_System_Protection_for_all_drives.reg

Not really since it depends on specific drive letters. :(
 

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Not really since it depends on specific drive letters. :(
I just don't understand. I have system restore on But third party apps say

Please turn system restore on because it is disabled.

the other day I had 6 restore points and when I wanted to restore windows said you don't have any restore points
that was sad and I had to reinstall windows
 

My Computer

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    Windows 11 pro
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    PC/Desktop
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    Asus
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    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz
    Motherboard
    PRIME Z490-A
    Memory
    32.0 GB DDR4
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    Radeon RX 580 Series
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    AMD High-Definition Audio Device
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    AOC Q32G1WG4
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    2560 x 1440
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    750
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    Air
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    Corsair K70 RGB
    Mouse
    G502 Hero
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I just don't understand. I have system restore on But third party apps say

Please turn system restore on because it is disabled.

the other day I had 6 restore points and when I wanted to restore windows said you don't have any restore points
that was sad and I had to reinstall windows

System Restore is good for a quick undo of a recent action.

However, it is best to keep an updated system image to have available to restore instead. This would include everything.
 

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    Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    PC/Desktop
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    Custom self build
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    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
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    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
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    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING (11GB GDDR5X)
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    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
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    2 x Samsung Odyssey G75 27"
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    2560x1440
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    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
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    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
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    Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
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    Thermaltake Core P3 wall mounted
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    Corsair Hydro H115i
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    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
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    1 Gbps Download and 35 Mbps Upload
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    Google Chrome
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    Microsoft Defender and Malwarebytes Premium
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    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
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    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
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    Windows 11 Pro
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    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Spectre x360 2in1 14-eu0098nr (2024)
    CPU
    Intel Core Ultra 7 155H 4.8 GHz
    Memory
    16 GB LPDDR5x-7467 MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    Integrated Intel Arc
    Sound Card
    Poly Studio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    14" 2.8K OLED multitouch
    Screen Resolution
    2880 x 1800
    Hard Drives
    2 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
    Internet Speed
    Intel Wi-Fi 7 BE200 (2x2) and Bluetooth 5.4
    Browser
    Chrome and Edge
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender and Malwarebytes Premium
System Restore is good for a quick undo of a recent action.

However, it is best to keep an updated system image to have available to restore instead. This would include everything.
Yes I agree But one of my Hard Drives gave out so running Low on space
 

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    PRIME Z490-A
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    32.0 GB DDR4
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    2560 x 1440
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I have system restore turned off and always rely on Macrium backups. But every time I get a major Windows Update, I discover several weeks later when my Marium backup are getting larger that sneakily behind the scenes MS has turned them back on for C drive.

I have added a shortcut now to System Protection to check it has remained off after an update.
 

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    Intel Core i9 13900F
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X (rev. 1.0/1.1) - (BIOS: F29)
    Memory
    2 x Kingston Fury 32gb DDR5 5600 Beast
    Graphics Card(s)
    Gigabyte Eagle (Nvidia) RTX 3060
    Sound Card
    Chord Async USB 44.1kHz - 384kHz 2Qute DAC
    Monitor(s) Displays
    piXL PX27UDH4K 27 Inch Frameless IPS Monitor
    Screen Resolution
    4K (3840 x 2160) 60fps
    Hard Drives
    1 x KINGSTON NVMe M.2 SSDSKC3000D2048G 2TB
    1 x Samsung SSD 870 EVO 250GB
    2 x Crucial CT4000MX500SSD1 4TB
    2 x Crucial CT2000MX500SSD1 2TB
    1 x Crucial CT250MX500SSD1 250.0 GB
    PSU
    Gigabyte 750w
    Case
    Fractal Torrent
    Cooling
    Stock Intel CPU, 2 x Fractal 180mm PWM (front), 3 x Fractal 140mm PWM (bottom)
    Keyboard
    Logi H295
    Mouse
    Logi M720
    Internet Speed
    47.2 Mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Eset Nod32

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