ray5450

"to use a three day old restore point could be a disaster" --Not at all. For the last year, I have been using only a single one month old restore point, if needed, which, luckily, I have only had to make use of once or twice. Restore points every day would end up being full of too many of almost the same. I usually need one further back if something happened that I did not notice right away, which is what often happens...to me, anyway. Too many the same will push the older ones I would need off the end. I had 3 day restore points with Vista for over 10 years and it worked out perfectly. I am not sure what you consider "busy".

Thanks, for your response. I am aware there is a setting to make a restore point with every start up, but that is not what I am trying to do. I need to set task scheduler to create a restore point every 3 days.

Thanks, for your response. What you found does not apply, as my setting is for every 3 days, not 24 hours. If I do not install any software, etc., a restore point does not get made for several weeks... even though I have this setting for every 3 days. Again, the history in task scheduler says that restore points are being started and completed every 3 days, with no indication of any error, but yet those restore points it says that are being made every 3 days are not on the list of restore points. I have already tried disabling my task scheduler setting and configuring the registry to make restore points. I used instructions posted somewhere for it, but it had no effect.

Thanks for your response. I selected to be notified of any responses here, but no notice came. I just happened to check here.... "My advice is do not rely on Windows to make restore points." --I know they cannot be completely relied on, but they are nice to have when they are there. "My guess is that this is the 'problem' - if the PC is not idle at those times a restore point won't be create then either." --I stated in my previous post that I do not have the idle requirement set. I do not have any conditions set, except AC power, and I rarely, if ever do not use AC power. "There is also the possibility you have not assigned enough space for the restore points..." --The space I currently have allotted contains a list, at this time, of 9 restore points (from installs, updates, etc., but none as a result of my schedule setup.) 9 or 10 are plenty for me. "you're only going to have 3 or 4 restore points available at any time before they're deleted. " --Before being deleted, thye must be created. None of the 9 show that they were created by my schedule setup. I had task scheduler setup to do this in Vista and it worked fine...every 3 days. As far as I can tell, it is set up the same way, but it is not working, although the history says it is working. (??)

I have my Windows 7 machine task scheduler set to make automatic restore points every 3 days, but it never does. It will make one unexpectedly about 1-2 times a month. The history in task scheduler says that restore points are being started and completed every 3 days, with no indication of any error. The history entries are exactly the same for when the 1-2 automatic restore points result,and when the expected restore point is missing. For the 9 or so that are missing every month, it is either as if it is "pretending" to make restore points every 3 days, or every 3 days it makes one and somehow it is immediately deleted. (?) I have searched this problem and have found only incidences of when there are never restore points created, or when the idle requirement option is set. I do not have idle requirement set. I need assistance in getting it to make restore points every 3 days. I can offer attached screen shots of the task scheduler settings tabs for system restore, the contents of its configuration file, or anything else. Thanks.