Kurt Shintaku's Blog

Everyone has been in a situation where they’re about to make a major change to their system like a driver upgrade or a software install.  The safeguard has always been to make sure you have a System Restore Point to come back to in the even things go bad.

Navigating through Control Panel just to create a System Restore point is laborious. 

1. START—>CONTROL PANEL
2. SYSTEM
3. Click SYSTEM PROTECTION TAB
4. Click CREATE button

There’s two ways to make a shortcut on your desktop that will shorten the path to accomplishing the same thing:

SHORTCUT TO THE SYSTEM PROTECTION TAB:
Create a shortcut that points to the following:

%SystemRoot%\System32\SystemPropertiesProtection.exe

(Note that this still requires that you click the “CREATE” button.)

SCRIPT THAT AUTOMATES EVERYTHING:
Create a text file called “Script System Restore Point.vbs” that has the following content in it:

‘——————————————————
‘Create an instant System Restore Point under Windows 7
‘——————————————————
If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
  Set oShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
  oShell.ShellExecute "wscript.exe", """" _
  & WScript.ScriptFullName & """ Run", , "runas", 1
Else
  Set oWshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
   oWshShell.Popup "Creating a SystemRestore point. Please wait.", _
    2, "System Restore", 0
  swinmgmts = "winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore"
  GetObject(swinmgmts).CreateRestorePoint _
    "Manual Restore Point", 0, 100
  MsgBox "System Restore Point created", 0, "System Restore"
End If

This will automate the process end to end, requiring only a single click to create a System Restore Point.