{"id":20113,"date":"2021-06-14T07:32:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T07:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/?p=20113"},"modified":"2024-12-07T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T14:24:03","slug":"how-to-create-a-restore-point-in-windows-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/how-to-create-a-restore-point-in-windows-11\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create a Restore point in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to Create a Restore point in Windows 11<\/h1>\n<p>Restore point is a system protection feature that enables the computer to revert to its previous state to avoid or undo unwanted system changes.<\/p>\n<p>A restore point is a stored state or snapshot of computer files taken at a particular point in time. This feature is similar to taking a Snapshot of a Virtual machine.<\/p>\n<h2>Environment<\/h2>\n<p>Windows 11 OS<\/p>\n<h2>Create a Restore Point<\/h2>\n<p>The steps to create a restore point on a Windows 11 machine are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Click on the Search icon in the Taskbar. This will launch the search window.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-a-restore-point.png\" alt=\"Create a restore point\" width=\"1788\" height=\"860\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-a-restore-point.png 1788w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-a-restore-point-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-a-restore-point-1024x493.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-a-restore-point-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Create-a-restore-point-1536x739.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1788px) 100vw, 1788px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Type<strong> Create a restore point<\/strong> in the search bar and select the Control panel search result.<b class=\"ocpLegacyBold\"><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Choose <b class=\"ocpLegacyBold\">the System Protection <\/b>tab in the <b class=\"ocpLegacyBold\">System Properties window.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We need to turn on the System protection for the disk to create a restore point. To configure the restore settings for the disk partition, Click on the <strong>Configure&#8230;<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/System-Protection-Restore-Settings.png\" alt=\"System Protection Restore Settings\" width=\"1777\" height=\"856\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/System-Protection-Restore-Settings.png 1777w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/System-Protection-Restore-Settings-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/System-Protection-Restore-Settings-1024x493.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/System-Protection-Restore-Settings-768x370.png 768w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/System-Protection-Restore-Settings-1536x740.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Choose the <strong>Turn on system protection<\/strong> radio option. Click on the <strong>Apply<\/strong> button to apply the settings.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the OK button and return to the <strong>System Properties<\/strong> window.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the\u00a0 <strong>Create&#8230;<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restore-point-Windows-11.png\" alt=\"Restore point Windows 11\" width=\"1657\" height=\"858\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restore-point-Windows-11.png 1657w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restore-point-Windows-11-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restore-point-Windows-11-1024x530.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restore-point-Windows-11-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-content\/uploads\/Restore-point-Windows-11-1536x795.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1657px) 100vw, 1657px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Type a description to identify the restore point. Click on the <strong>Create<\/strong> button. The system might take a while to create the restore point.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. We are done with creating a restore point for the Windows 11 machine. We can use the restore point to revert the computer to an earlier state. This feature is especially useful while performing destructive or negative testing on the computer that can result in unexpected results.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Create a Restore point in Windows 11 Restore point is a system protection feature that enables the computer to revert to its previous state to avoid or undo unwanted system changes. A restore point is a stored state or snapshot of computer files taken at a particular point in time. This feature is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-20113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-windows-11","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20113"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26243,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20113\/revisions\/26243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}