Quickly open System Restore
Speaking of System Restore, sometimes you want to make a restore point in addition to the regularly scheduled ones. Opening System Restore through Control Panel can require several steps but there are quicker ways. In an old post, I showed how to create a shortcut for quickly opening System Restore in Windows XP. In Vista, enter “rstrui” (without quotes) in the Start Search line and click rstrui.exe. User Account Control will come up; click “Continue”.
You might think that entering “rstrui” in the Windows XP Run line would also work but it doesn’t. The file rstrui.exe is not in the default path in Windows XP. You could enter the full address %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\restore\rstrui.exe into the Run line but typing such a long name is obviously not optimal. That is why I suggested creating the shortcut described in the earlier post. I also wrote two scripts that can be used to quickly create a restore point. They can be downloaded at my computer education site.
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Thanks so much for this great tip; it makes it so much more convenient to create a restore point.