How do I permanently save a System Restore point?

I'm getting ready to try out a new optimization program and know from experience with other ones that it will likely erase the recent system restore points.

I really need these because I don't know what exactly the program's going to do. I've had other ones screw up a lot of my programs and shortcuts in the past.

I guess I'm just going to have to save one to the hard drive, but I don't know where they're located or what kind of privileges I'm going to have to have in order to mess with it.

Anybody have any experience with this?

 

what software are you thinking of using. then people will be able to tell you if it deletes all the previous restore points.

last time i done a thorough clean i had 44gb of restore points saved. i not sure but i dont think you can chose which you want to save as a cleanup will delete all of them. i was using tune up utilitys 2012 at the time.

 

System Mechanic Pro

 

I wouldn't worry about System Restore. This app dates back to the late Windows 9x era, I think Windows ME, back when fully uninstalling programs was fairly risky business. System Restore hasn't been all that necessary for a very long time, and it was actually advisable to turn System Restore off during the dark days of the Windows XP malware boom - it simply just served to back-up malware infections.

If you've got the HDD or SSD memory, leave it on, if you want, but remember that creating and maintaining "restore points" aren't all that useful anymore.

And this demonstrates how much HDD memory System Restore can waste. Even with the decrease in SSD prices, both in relative and absolute terms, I'd hate to waste 44GB of memory on useless restore points.

 

Better off doing a system image or regular backups. Because if you just roll back to an old system restore point, you will lose all your progress, installs, or whatever after that point, and have a bunch of phantom files hanging around.

System Restore has saved my butt on a few occasions, but usually just need the latest or last few system restores. I restrict my system restore size to 1GB, which is more than enough for 10 restore points, more than adequate. Otherwise it's just wasting space.

 

I agree with this, but would add--don't use a system optimization program at all. There is no such thing. They do not work. They do more damage than good.

 

QFT. Sounds like you want to have a system image of how everything is before you do you optimization thing. Windows can do that in the "Backup and Restore" settings. There are also several free programs for creating disk images - just search the good 'ole web.

And personally I would recommend against using an optimization program. If there is something specific that is bugging you performance-wise, I'm sure you can get help on that on these forums. Those programs have a habit of touching things that aren't meant to be touched and don't tell you what they touched so it's hard or impossible to undo.

 

I've used Auslogics Boostspeed for years and have nothing but good things to say about it... I was curious about some of the other features System Mechanic Pro had to offer, so I got it too.

I ran the Program Accelerator, which took about 4 hours, and as expected it wiped out the restore point I made just before trying it out.

I feel like I dodged a bullet because everything seems fine.

 

"Optimization Program"??? :laugh: Complete waste of time and possibly money.

 

Say what you will, but I've seen some mild improvement.

When I boot up now I can use the desktop immediately. Before there was about a 15 to 20 second pause when the programs were loading and the mouse was sometimes unresponsive.

Also the icons don't flash anymore when I boot. I use custom icons and before they would sometimes flash a blank page for about a second.

Pretty much little things like this all around the system. It's picky, I know, but any little improvement is worth letting the program run when I'm not using it.

 

Optimization programs typically were used in the past to free up RAM, which these days isn't an issue. And they also close any background apps that may be consuming CPU cycles. But these days that's usually unheard of. Only optimization that I would consider is something like ccleaner and glary utilities to eliminate fragment and unneeded files, stray registry entries, and malware. Even that mainly cleans up and frees up some storage space, but malware is usually your biggest culprit an any performance issues.

 

You don't need third party software to improve boot time.

How about using Microsofts own solution?

http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...ed-up-windows-boot-time-hdd-not-msconfig.html