How to Create a Restore Point in Windows 10

This Itechguide teaches you how to create a restore point in Windows 10. The guide covers 2 steps to create a restore point in Windows 10.

Step 1: Turn on System Protection

Before you can create a restore point in Windows 10 is to enable system protection on the drives. Here are the detailed steps…

• Type control panel in the search box. Then, from the search results, click Control Panel.

• When Control Panel opens, on the top right, if View by is NOT set to Category, click the drop-down and select Category.

• Then, click System and Security.

• On System and Security screen, click System.

• When the View basic information about your computer screen opens, on the left pane, click System protection.

• Finally, on the System Protection tab of System Properties, beneath Protection Settings, select your System drive (usually drive C).
• Then, beside Configure restore settings, manage disk space, and delete restore points, click Configure.

• Then, on the Restore Protection for Local Disk (C:) settings, select Turn on system protection and click OK.

• The protection settings for the System drive will now display On.
• If you want to enable system restore for the other available drives, select the drive, click Configure and select Turn on system protection.

Step 2: Create a Restore Point

• Follow the steps in step 1 above until you get to the System Protection tab of System Properties.
• To create a restore point, beside Create a restore point right now for the drives that have system protection turned on, click Create.

• Finally, Create a restore point screen, enter a name for the restore point and click Create.

• System Protection will begin creating the requested restore point. When the system restore point is created, click Close.

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