{"id":17592,"date":"2019-09-18T21:35:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T01:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=17592"},"modified":"2019-09-18T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T01:35:21","slug":"how-to-configure-system-restore-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-configure-system-restore-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Configure System Restore in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How to Configure System Restore in Windows 10<\/span>
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\nRecently, we’ve received quite a few emails asking about System Restore on Windows 10. Some of you are wondering why you have no restore points at all, and others want to know how to increase the number of restore points they can choose from. So, today’s tip is a refresher course on configuring and using System Restore.<\/span><\/p>\n

Windows 10, by default, sets the maximum hard drive space that System Restore can use at 1 % of the total hard drive. If you have a 1 TB hard drive, that\u2019s a maximum of approximately 10 GB. If you have a 500 GB hard drive it\u2019s about 5 GB.<\/span><\/p>\n

System restore points, depending on the amount of data on your computer, can be quite large, so it\u2019s likely that many of you have only 1 or 2 restore points you can choose from if you need to do a system restore. This is because of Windows 10’s small default System Restore disk space limit.<\/span><\/p>\n

We recommend that you change this to at least 5% and preferably 10% \u2013 and here\u2019s how you can do that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Type CREATE in taskbar search and press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n

System Restore will open.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Select your Windows drive (usually \u201cC:\u201d ) and click on the \u201cConfigure\u201d button:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Make sure that \u201cTurn on system protection\u201d is selected. Under \u201dDisk Space Usage\u201d use the slider to adjust the amount of disk space you want to allocate to System Restore.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, click Apply\/OK. And that’s it!<\/span><\/p>\n

Increasing the disk space allocated to System Restore increases the number of restore points you\u2019ll have available. We recommend you don\u2019t go crazy with this. It’s wise not to allocate more than 10% of your hard drive space to System Restore. And keep in mind too, increasing the drive space allocated to System Restore has no immediate effect \u2013 you\u2019re not going to see 2 or 3 new restore points appear out of the blue. Over time, you\u2019ll have 3 or 4 restore points to choose from instead of 1 or 2 — and that should be plenty.\u00a0 You don’t need more than 3 or 4 restore points, so don’t go use common sense when configuring the space you want to allocate do System Restore.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you should ever need to restore your computer using a System Restore point, here’s how to do it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Right-click the Start button<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Click “Run”<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. In the Run box type “RSTRUI” (no quotes) and press Enter<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. System Restore will open. To see all of your restore points you might need to choose “Show more restore points” at the bottom of System Restore.\u00a0 See the screenshot below.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

    Aye! Now yer a System Restore Expert (SRE), I tells ya!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        How to Configure System Restore in Windows 10 Recently, we’ve received quite a few emails asking about System Restore on Windows 10. Some of you are wondering why you have no restore points at all, and others want to know how to increase the number of restore points they can choose from. So, today’s tip is\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3468,3467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17595,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17592\/revisions\/17595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}