System Restore Point in Windows 10

Introduction

Microsoft introduced its latest operating system known as "Windows 10". People like it very much. As we know this is the newest operating system so sometimes and at some point, people encounter some problems using it. Sometimes people lose their data when they use this new operating system or sometimes they make changes that cause the system to not work properly. So a problem can occur but we can use a system restore of the operating system. This article explains how to create a System Restore Point and how to restore the system to a previous date in Windows 10.

Before proceeding we will first talk about System Restore Points and how they work.

System restore points

System Restore Points play a very important role in the operating system. Using System Restore Point users can get the previous state of his/her system. we can create more than one Restore Point in the Windows operating system. Every Restore Point contains some necessary files and information that are used to restore the system to any specific desired state. The main advantage of System Restore Point is that undo system changes to your computer without performing any changes in your files, photos, emails, and other documents. System Restore Point is created automatically from the system weekly or when your system restores detects any change in your computer like the installation of any program or any driver into your system. Sometimes when your PC does not work properly and you have created a System Restore Point in the past then using it you can restore your PC to a backdate where your PC works fine without any problem or issues.

We know that Windows 10 creates System Restore Points automatically for restoring the PC to an earlier date at which the PC worked fine. Automatic Restore Points work when you install or uninstall an application or program into your computer, but if you create a Restore Point periodically or manually then that is much better than creating a Restore Point automatically because sometimes automatic Restore Points do not work efficiently.

How to create a restore point in windows10?

Now let's see how to create a restore point in windows10

Step 1. Go to the Start button and click on the Control Panel.

Step 2. Now your Control Panel will be opened. In the Control Panel go to the search for the Control Panel and enter here "system restore". When you enter that into the search text box you will then get a window like this.

Step 3. Now you will see a link to create a Restore Point. So click on this Restore Point. When you click on it you will see a new pop-up window named System Properties. In this window, there are some tabs available. So here you select the System Protection tab. You will then see a window as in the following.

Step 4. Now here in the Protection Settings column, you will see all the available devices, so you can choose the device to create a Restore Point from here. On my computer I have only two devices, one is the C drive and the other is the D drive. So here I choose the C device for creating the Restore Point in the system.

Step 5. Now here you will also see the two buttons, one is Configure and the other is Create. Using the Configure button we will manage the disk space and also delete the Restore Points that are created by us or created by the system automatically using the Create button we can create a new Restore Point for that device that has system protection turned on so here I will create the Restore Point for the C device. So we select the C device and click on the Create button.