How to make a recovery point on windows 10. How to restore the system from the previously created point

All computer owners occasionally face problems windows work After installing incorrect drivers or make changes to the operating system. Solve this problem allows the creation of system recovery points.

Windows 10 recovery point allows you to return the computer to the last stable state of the computer. When creating a Windows 10 recovery point saves a backup of system files. Thus, instead of fully reinstalling Windows after installed some incorrect driver or ratified the virus, you can simply roll back the system.

Recovery points are created before installation. windows updatesAnd also automatically with the frequency you will specify. The more free space on the hard disk you reserve under the recovery points, the more recovery dates you will have to choose from.

The system allows you to manually create Windows 10 recovery points. This may be required, for example, before installing programs that can somehow disrupt the system. In case something goes wrong, the owner of the computer can always roll back the system on the date when everything worked properly.

Note, the recovery points contain only backups Windows 10 system files that affect the operating system boot. Personal folders and files are not included in backups. If you want to reserve more and personal files, then you need to make a complete image of the system.

Windows 10 recovery settings

In order to watch the current recovery settings on your computer click right-click Mice on the "Start" menu and go to the "Control Panel".

Go to the "System and Security" section.

Go to the "System" section.

Click on the left column "System Protection".

The window that opens shows the protection parameters for your disks. The status is disabled means that the recovery points for this disk are not made, but turned on when the recovery points are made.

In my case, the recovery points are made only for the C disc on which the operating system is installed. In order to change the settings of the security settings, select the disk you are interested in and click the "Configure" button.

At the top of the window, you can enable or disable the creation of windows 10 recovery points, and at the bottom specify which amount of disk space you are ready to reserve these backups. The larger volume you specify, the more recovery points will be stored. As this volume is filling out, the old recovery points will be stitched to free the place for new ones. Usually, it is enough to store 2-3 recovery points of the system.

In order to free up a hard disk space, you can click the Delete button to delete all saved recovery points.

Creating a Windows 10 recovery point manually

In order to create a Windows 10 recovery point on the previous "System Protection" tab, click the Create button.

A window will pop up in which you must somehow call the recovery point, in my case for example, I called it "Restoring point before installing an incomprehensible driver." At the same time, the date and time of creating a point will be added automatically. After that, click the "Create" button.

The process of creating a recovery point will begin. Usually it takes less than a minute. After completing the "Recovery Point Successful" window appears (see the picture above). Now you can install that incomprehensible driver, because of which I worked and in case of problems, roll back the system using the recovery point.

Customize automatic creation of recovery points

As already written above, Windows 10 automatically creates recovery points before setting up updates, and also makes it possible to do it manually. But for the safety net, it makes sense to configure automatic creation Points Recovery to the time you specified, for example, every day.

Right-click on the Start menu and go to the Control Panel.

In the "control panel" in the right upper corner Select "View" - "Minor Icons" and click on the "Administration" section.

Open the job scheduler.

Alternately, click the double click of the job Planner Library - "Microsoft" - "Windows" - "System Restore".

In the System Restore branch, the SR rule has already been created to create Windows 10 recovery points. We can only specify the interval through which this rule will work. Click two times on SR rule.

In the window that opens, go to the Triggers tab and click "Create".

In the next window, you can set the period when Windows 10 recovery will be created. You can specify a daily creation, weekly, monthly, when you start a computer or when it is turned off and so on.

You should choose a period of creating points on the reserved area on the hard disk for storing backups, since when filling out this volume, the newest recovery points will wash the oldest.

After you have selected a period of creating recovery points, click OK.

Rollback of Windows 10 to the recovery point

Now, when we learned how to create recovery points manually and automatically, tell you how to restore the system after a failure.

You can roll back the system with the help of recovery points in several ways - using the Windows 10 interface, using the command line, as well as with the diagnostic tools.

System rollback via Windows interface

The easiest way is when you can run Windows 10. In this case, we do everything as at the beginning of the article. Right-click on the Start menu and go to the Control Panel. Next, go to the System and Security section - "System" - "System Protection". In the System Protection window, click the Restore button.

The system file restore wizard opens. Click "Next".

In the next window, put a checkbox at the show "show other recovery points". IN this list Displayed all possible recovery points. The left column shows the dates of creating recovery points. In the middle column, the description is described so that we can identify the point.

As can be seen in the screenshot below, the recovery point called "Point Recovery to the Unclear Driver", which I created in the second chapter of this article is present in the list as the last created.

Finally, the right column indicates the type of recovery point (manually, system or installation), that is, under what circumstances a backup has been created.

Also, you can click on the recovery point of interest and click "search for affected programs." The window that opens will display a list of programs that will affect rollback to this recovery point.

When you chose a recovery point to which we want to make the system rollback click "Next".

One of the most effective ways System recovery is a rollback to the previously created checkpoint. You can create a dump manually or putting the task itself. In the second case, the rollback points will be generated automatically. In this article we will tell you how to create a recovery point in Windows 10 in manual and automatic mode.

When using a rollback method through a checkpoint, drivers, registry and file system. You will get an accurate copy of the OS and it will become the one that was at the time of creating a point. It will also raise the question of removing these very points, because if you have the last picture, the previous ones become unnecessary and only in vain occupy the space of the drive.

Like any other mechanism, the algorithm for creating points in Windows 10 requires initial setting. Let's do it.

Run the control panel. To do this, we will use the "dozens" search instrument. Click on the magnifier icon on the taskbar (we designated it with the "1" number) and enter the request field to the field that appears. IN search results We click on the item you are interested in.

In the opened control panel, enter in search string word Restoration And click on the item in the left side of the window.

Next, we click on the line that we allocated a red rectangle.

There is more fast way to get in this menu. To do this, use the combination of hot Win + R keys and enter the operator in the operating window. systemPropertiesProtection. .

A new window will open - we need the "System Protection" tab. Damps can be created for those discs for which protection is active. IN this case It is disabled on both drives. To activate the service, highlight disc And click on the "Set up" button.

Switch the checkbox to "Enable System Protection" position, set the size of the disk space redundant to the disk snapshots using the slider. The greater the place you give the recovery system, the more control points it can be written at the same time. When the space is filled, old rollback points will be deleted in automatic mode. After making changes, we will only leave the button with the inscription "OK".

After that, the configuration of the creation of control points can be considered complete. Go to the next section - records of the points themselves.

How to create a recovery point

You can create a disk snapshot in the same window where we set it up.

To do this, select the disk, the dump of which will be made, and click on the "Create" button.

Next, enter the name of the control point and click "Create" (the object name does not affect its operation, it is prescribed only for a user who will understand when a point was created and for what).

The process began, it will not require a lot of time. Now that the snapshot of the system is made, you can return it to the previous state and correct the problems caused by, for example, by installing the poor-quality software.

All recovery points that the user created, the Windows 10 program, is stored in the catalog System VOLUME INFORMATION. at the root of the disk on which the process was going.

Recovery from the control point

After we managed to make the Windows 10 recovery point, consider how to produce a system rollback with its help. Especially since doing it can different ways - Read the material and choose the option closest to you.

Using the control panel

The easiest way to restore the system with a dump is to use the control panel in which we created a snapshot of the disk slightly higher. How to get into this menu you already know, so I will proceed directly to restoration.

First, simply click the button with the text "Restore".

The recovery wizard will start, or rather, its first step: here we need to click on the "Next" button.

We highlight the point to which we want to roll back the system, and click on "Next".

At this stage, we can see what drivers, system files or applications will be changed. In order to see their list, press the button marked in the picture with a red frame.

We continue to restore.

The system will notify us that everything is ready for recovery. It remains only to click on "ready."

Another warning will be followed, which says that if we start the process, it will be impossible to stop it. In any case, press "yes."

Preparations began to roll back Windows 10 to the previously created reference point. Close all programs and save the files - the OS will be rebooted soon.

After rebooting the OS, it will return to the form that was when creating a control point. All data that has changed since then roll out the initial state.

Rollback through special download options

There is another option windows rollback 10 By means of a disk snapshot - this time we will use special download options. You can get into this menu in several ways, consider each of them.

The first way implies the transition to the goal through windows settings. To begin with, open them (you can do it through the "Start" menu by clicking on the gear icon).

Next, click on the tile, which we designated in the picture.

In the left half of the window, click on the link "Restore", and in the right we need a "Restart Now" button. After her pressing PC will be rebooted and gets into the regime you need. Before action, close all programs and save the data.

The computer will reboot. On the screen that opens, select "Troubleshooting".

On the next Shage Select the designated tile.

This is a rollback menu to the checkpoint. Select the desired disk dump and click on it.

The system will ask for a password from the administrator account - enter it and click on "continue."

Before starting a rollback procedure, we will once again ask about the correctness of the decision. If everything is true, click the "Return to the previous version" button.

The system will roll back to the recovery point created earlier - this is our goal. We are waiting for the completion of the process.

ATTENTION: All operations with checkpoints need to be made on behalf of the administrator, otherwise you will encounter an error " System Restore Disabled by the System AdministratorWindows 10.».

Restoring Windows 10 via the command line

There is another option to roll back to the reference point. This is a command line. The method will help when your system is simply started and applying any other method does not work. Activate command line on the system, the load of which does not happen, you can use the installation windows flash drive 10 (how to write it, we told B).

To begin with, open the command line and enter the operator: rstrui.exe, and then press Enter. As a result, the wizard familiar to us will be launched, which we considered in the recovery method through the control panel. Follow the prompts and restore your Windows 10.

Automatic creation

The system can create points yourself. Moreover, it will be done either in time, or before some important event, for example, modifying system files. Below we will tell how to enable this feature.

Run the control panel (click on the magnifier icon on the status panel and enter the search query in the Location).

When the control panel starts, enter the word "Administration" in its search string and click on the result you need.

Click on schedule scheduler.

Open the "job scheduler library", then "Microsoft", "Windows" and SystemRestore.

We make the right click on the item designated in the picture "1", and in the menu that opens, select "Properties".

Go to the designated tab and click on "Create".

Now we need to specify the frequency with which the system will take pictures of selected disks. You can set once a day, a week or month.

Ready! Now you do not need to create control points manually.

For storage of recovery points, a limited number of space on the hard drive is assigned, so when the number of dumps exceeds the norm, the old entries will be removed automatically.

Can't create a recovery point?

There are several reasons that can prevent the creation of a system dump. This may be, for example, viruses that managed to damage part of the system, several OS, simultaneously installed on a computer, etc. If there is no choice, most likely when installing OS, you simply disabled the function of creating points. Turn on the protection of the disc needed to you: how it is done we described above.

Remove unnecessary dumps

If you need to remove Windows 10 recovery points for any reason, open the properties of the system (how it is done. We considered a little higher) and click on the "Configure" button.

We warn us that after deleting all records, we will not be able to roll back the system to the original state. If you are confident in your choice, then press "continue."

The process of erasing checkpoints began, after a few moments it will be over.

That's all. The computer is fully cleaned from all recovery points. Close Close.

The same can be done in another way. Consider how to remove disk dumps using the cleaning tool in Windows 10.

Run the "Run" utility using a Win + R keys combination, enter the word cleanmgr. and press ENTER.

Select the disc you want to clean, and click OK.

The preparatory phase of cleaning the disk, the necessary information is collected.

In a new window, you need to click on the "Clear" button.

The system will once again warn us that all records other than the last will be deleted. Click "Delete".

After that, all control points will be cleaned, only the latest one will remain on the PC.

Consider another way of removing control windows points 10. His difference is that we can erase any selected dump, and not all points immediately. With such a task perfectly copes cCleaner program. Consider an example of deletion.

Initially, download the software program and install it (there should be no difficulties with installation). When the application starts, go to the "Service" section, and then in the "Restore System" tab. On the right side of the window, select the point you want to delete, and press the corresponding point.

Let's sum up

In the article, we considered the question of how to create a recovery point in Windows 10. If, after reading the article, you did not understand everything, write to us about your problem in the comments, and we, in turn, undertake to give a concise and comprehensive answer. For greater completeness of the picture below you will find a video on the topic.

Video on how to create a recovery checkpoint in Windows 10

Recovery points can be created operating system Automatically (for example, when installing programs, drivers, or updating the operating system) or manually by the user command. Manual Creating a recovery point is usually used when the user plans to perform any potentially dangerous action with the system and wants to progress himself in case of a software failure.

But, due to serious changes in the Windows 10 interface, manual creation Point recovery causes difficulties from users. If you also encountered a similar problem, then this article should help you. Here you will learn how to create a recovery point in Windows 10.

So, if you want to create a recovery point in Windows 10, then you first need to open a window with system properties. You can do this in different ways. For example, if you have a computer icon on the desktop, you can simply click on it right mouse button and select the "Properties" item in the opened menu. Also in the system properties can be logged in via the control panel. To do this, you need to open the "System and Security - System" section.

But, the easiest way to open the system properties is to use the key combination. Windows + Pause / Break.

After opening the properties of the system, you need to click on the "System Protection" link in the left side menu.

After that, a small window will open with the system recovery settings. First of all, here you need to pay attention to whether protection is enabled for the system disk. If opposite the system disk, it is "disabled", then you first need to turn on the protection. To do this, select the disk on which your operating system is installed, and click on the "Configure" button.

In the next window, you need to enable system protection and specify how many disk space you want to select the recovery points.

After switching on the system protection, the "Create" button must be blocked. Now you can proceed to creating a recovery point for the operating windows systems 10. Allocate again system Disk And click on the "Create" button.

After that, the Windows 10 operating system will start the process of creating a recovery point.

After the recovery point is created, you will see an informational message.

Restoring Windows 10 using the created point

If you need to restore the Windows 10 operating system using the created recovery point, this can be done through the control panel. Open the Control Panel, enter the "Restore" search and go to the Same title section.

After that, you need to activate the "Running system restore" function.

And follow the instructions that will appear on the screen.

If the Windows 10 operating system is not loaded, in order to restore the system from the recovery point, you need to boot from and go to "System Restore" mode.

Next you need to open the section "Diagnostics - Extra options - Restoring the system - Windows 10. After that you will open the usual window to restore the system with the previously created point.

In more detail about the restoration of the system using the recovery point, you can read in our article "".

All users of computers, laptops sooner or later face problems, in the form of errors in the operating system, installing not those drivers, programs, viruses, etc. To eliminate them, spend a large amount of time and strength. In fact, to solve most problems, it is enough to use the recovery point. The recovery point is the result of the process of saving system files. Your system, default, when installing programs, drivers secretly from you make backup copies of yourself (more precisely system files). Whatever the problems you could return to the state when everything was fine and everything worked (the process is called the "rollback" system). Thus, the first thing I recommend to do in case of problems with the operating system, drivers, virus, try to restore the system to the previous problem of recovery. That is, there is a problem arose today, use yesterday or in yesterday's recovery point.

Written below is relevant not only for Windows 10, but also Windows 7, Widows 8 / 8.1.

How to create a recovery point in Windows 10.

To progress yourself, you yourself can create a recovery point. To do this, you need to open the System window, you can do this in several ways:

1 way. Press the WIN + PAUSE key combination.

2 way. Right-click on the "Computer" shortcut, select "Properties".

3 way. Right-click on the Start menu and select "Control Panel"

Then click "System and Security".

In the next window, select "System".

It does not matter how much of the way you took advantage of, the main thing you have opened the "System" window.

In the left menu, select "System Protection".

In the Protection Settings menu, you will see all your logically discs. Select a disc with the operating system (disk C) and click the "Set" button.

Here you can enable or disable the creation of recovery points, set the size of the disk space allocated for the system backups.

To make a recovery point in the "System Protection" window, click the "Create" button

Enter the name of the recovery point name, for example, "before installing the driver on the video card" or "before installing the incomprehensible program", etc.

The process of creating a recovery point will begin.

A few minutes later, it will end.

Congratulations, you made a recovery point, now you can start experiments with the system. If something goes wrong, you can "roll back" the system.

System rollback to recovery point in Windows 10.

If there is a situation at which you need to return to the recovery point (roll back). You need to open the System, methods window, then select the "System Protection" in the left menu.

Press the "Restore" button.