How to Create a Restore Point

What is system protection?

Quoted from the Windows Help and Support:

System protection is a feature that regularly creates and saves information about your computer's system files and settings. System protection also saves previous versions of files that you've modified. It saves these files in restore points, which are created just before significant system events, such as the installation of a program or device driver. They're also created automatically once every seven days if no other restore points were created in the previous seven days, but you can create restore points manually at any time.

System protection is automatically on for the drive that Windows is installed on. System protection can only be turned on for drives that are formatted using the NTFS file system.

Create system restore points with Wise Care 365

Wise Care 365 is a popular Windows system maintenance tool that can help you clean up the disk to free up disk space, turn off unnecessary startup programs to speed up system startup, and other very useful and free functions, such as creating system restore points, which we will use next.

1. Click here to download and install Wise Care 365. If you have already installed it, please skip this step and go to the next step.

2. Open Wise Care 365, click the Menu in the upper-right corner, and then click Backup.

3. Select Create a system restore point and wait for a while. After the creation is complete, you can see the restore point in Menu –> Restore -> System Restore.

Create system restore points in Windows 11

1. Press the Windows logo + X keys on your keyboard to open the Power User Menu (a.k.a WinX menu), and then select Settings.

2. In the Settings window, select System on the left, move the mouse cursor to the right pane and scroll down to the bottom, then click About.

3. In the Related Links under Device Specifications, click System Protection.

4. Click the Create button at the bottom, enter a name for the restore point to be created, and then click the Create button to start the creation. This creation process will take from a few seconds to a few minutes, so please be patient.

Create system restore points in Windows 10

1. Click the Start icon in the lower left corner of the desktop, and then click Settings (gear icon).

2. In the Settings window that opens, click System, click About, and click System Protection under Related Settings.

3. In the System Protection tab of the System Properties window, click the Create button at the bottom.

4. Then name the restore point and click the Create button to start.

Create system restore points in Windows 7

1. Right-click on the Computer icon in the desktop, and select Properties.

2. Click System protection in the left.

3. Find and click the Create button in the System Protection tab.

4. Type a description for your restore point that will help you remember why you created it and then click the Create button to start.

If you find that the System Restore, Configure, and Create buttons in System Protection are grayed out and unclickable, click here to learn how to fix the problem that the System Restore has been turned off by your system administrator.