When a Windows PC presents errors caused by installed programs or anomalous behavior due to configurations of which it no longer remembers how to go back, a quick and painless solution can be found by restoring the system configuration. As written in one of the guides, System Restore allows you to readjust Windows if it has problems that it didn't have yesterday . Basically you go to the computer to reload the situation a few days ago, when everything worked perfectly.
Although this is a very intelligent and useful feature of Microsoft, it is not always effective and often does not solve anything because recovery points are not found or because the service cannot be activated. Furthermore, there is no graphical interface provided to manage the recovery points created, you cannot know what is changed and what is restored and there is no way to decide when they should be created. Everything is therefore automatic in Windows, perhaps not to complicate the life of inexperienced users who, however, if they have problems, cannot even play with some setting.
So let's see some useful and very simple programs that allow you to create and manage the restore points of Windows 10 and Windows 7 and 8 .
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First of all, the management of the recovery points in Windows can be done by right-clicking on My Computer -> properties -> advanced system settings and then going to the " System protection " tab. Alternatively, go to Control Panel> System> System Protection (on the left).
From here it is possible to restore to a previous stage, manually create a restore point by pressing the relative " Create " button, to activate or deactivate the restore for the internal disks of the computer and, by pressing the " Configure " button, to delete all the points created so far and to choose the percentage of disk space to reserve for this operation.
However, other programs to manage recovery points can be a little simpler.
1) Restore Point Creator, in addition to making it easy to create new restore points, also allows you to manage existing ones. There is a version to install and a portable version. The program requires. NET Framework 4.0 and also works on Windows 10, Windows 7 and 8.1, 64-bit without problems.
2) Starting from the smallest, the Single Click Restore Point portable program allows you to have a small tool that automatically creates a new restore point simply by starting it. In this way you can quickly and manually create a point on the system to which you can return in case you are preparing to carry out installations of dubious security or delicate modifications.
3) System Restore Explorer is a recovery point manager that allows you to mount shadow copies directly in File Explorer and to delete individual recovery points as needed. Free and light, this program also shows how much space is used by all the recovery points in the system.
4) On Windows 10 and 7, for expert management, you can use a tool called RestorPoint Creator, a rather powerful program that offers many advanced options for creating and managing recovery points correctly in Windows. In addition to simplifying the creation of recovery points, you can view previous recovery points, delete individual recovery points, create recovery points with custom names, plan the creation of recovery points, manage the space used by recovery points, delete automatically old restore points, etc. Above all, it allows you to mount the shadow copy of the recovery point to explore the files inside it and also correct any damaged recovery points with a few clicks . Due to all the advanced options and settings, the user interface may seem a little complicated.
5) System Restore Manager (SRM) is a recent WindowsClub program similar to RestorWin but more intuitive and easy to use. It allows you to manage restore points, delete them, or restore them . On the right side it allows you to choose for which disk to activate the configuration restore, to program how often to create one, to choose how much space must be used and the maximum time within which that point disappears. System Restore Manager gives me an error which, from what I read on the forum, also appears to other users. No harm, but if the mistake also happens to you, you will have to wait for the developer to run for cover with a more solid version.
6) Reboot Restore RX is an excellent assistant program to manage system restore points, create them and use them. You can use this simple software to request a reset when the computer restarts.
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