Don't See Restore Points Create From Task Scheduler

[UMWOLVERINE]

I am running Windows 8.1 on a 64-bit machine. I have a scheduled task for the creation of restore points. I just checked Task Scheduler and the task completed today at 4:00 AM; however, it does not appear in the list of restore points (Menu Path: Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Recovery > System Restore).

I expected to see it in the list, but the only item there is the manual Restore Point I created. Does anybody know why this is the case?

 

[patrickIT]

Do you have UAC enabled? if so > control panel > change user account control settings. Set the option to never notify.

Could you give me some steps in how you created the task?

this guide might help you out; http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/494-system-restore-point-shortcut.html

 

[UMWOLVERINE]

Hello, Patrick.

I made the change to UAC as you suggested.

In Task Scheduler:

1. I Found the System Restore task in the library under Microsoft > Windows.
2. Opened its properties.
3. Defined a trigger as Every Sunday of Every Week at 4:00 AM, Starting 11/29/2014.

The task was then listed among the group of active tasks and it ran successfully as scheduled at 4:00 AM today. It took 13 seconds to complete per the history tab on the task.

 

[patrickIT]

If you do it that way it will scan if any previous restore points were created during the last 7 days, problem is it won't create any IF so. It will run successfully but it just won't create the restore point.

Creating restore points every 7 days is fine though, so if you wait a couple of days or delete all the previous restore points and then reboot it should work.

hope this helps

 

[UMWOLVERINE]

Got it.

That's interesting, though, because there are other restore points created less than seven days apart. One was created on 11/27, which was manual (Type = Manual) and another on 11/28 when I uninstalled software (Type=Uninstall). I guess that "seven-day exclusion", so to speak, only applies to restore points from a scheduled task. Is that correct?

 

[patrickIT]

Yes, this is correct.