Expand “Browse Post Topics” below to go straight to a topic. Here are the 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 in Windows 10
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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