Recent content by dbookbinder

As I mentioned, I don't rely exclusively on System Restore, nor am I recommending the method I was asking about. I do weekly image backups of my System drive using Macrium, back up my data to multiple locations daily, and also clone to a spare SSD periodically following the failure of a fairly...

With the help of a couple of AI programs, I put together the attached script, which 1) checks to see if it's running in Admin mode and, if it isn't, launches itself in Admin mode; 2) temporarily turns on System Restore; 3) creates a restore point; 4) turns off System Restore. I intend to run it...

It appears to work. When I created DisableSR and set it to 1, System Restore said it was disabled by a system administrator. Toggling DisableSR to 0 or deleting the value re-enabled System Restore. All the restore points were still there. Doing it from a batch file or script also worked, as...

Did more digging and it looks like I can disable SR with a registry change, re-enable it when I want to create a new restore point or install a Windows update, and then disable it again. I've got a VBS script I use to create restore points, so I just have to figure out how to add toggling a...

Thanks, I know about changing the restore point schedule. That's not what I'm looking for.

I've been using Windows since long before System Restore existed and am aware of its limitations. I do image backups weekly. I very seldom have issues with new apps causing an issue I can't rectify by uninstalling the app and don't want restore points created by app installs to bump restore...

I create restore points on a schedule or when I am making significant changes to my system drive. I don't want application installations to create additional restore points, and often they do. Is there a way to turn off only this type of restore point creation and still let my restore point...

I don't think so. Throttlestop is a portable program. My recollection is that they disappeared from Control Panel when I reset power options a while ago to try to fix a Modern Standby issue. It's not a major deal for me. I can still get one default power plan at a time to show up in Control...

It looks like, from this post and a couple of similar ones I found after my above post, that I can either 1) wipe everything with Option 5, thereby deleting my custom plans, or 2) create duplicates of the default plans (options 1 - 4), but not 3) just redisplay the existing plans. Thanks.

My Windows 11 Pro computer only shows the Balanced power plan. I know the Power Saver and High Performance plans exist because I can select them in Throttlestop and then edit them, using a feature in that program that lets you switch power plans at the same time you switch Throttlestop profiles...

I updated the display driver, as Intel had a new version. No change.

I turned off all wake timers when I was trying to get S0 sleep to work, and they're still off now that I'm using S3. A new WiFi driver apparently re-enabled the WiFi wake on LAN settings, so I turned them off, as well as the "Allow to wake" setting for my mouse, which also got turned back on at...

SERVICE, PROCESS, and DRIVER all came up empty. I also tried disabling all startup programs (even though Sleep worked fine with them enabled) and that made no difference.

I'm also seeing that now, whether connected to external monitor and drives or not, the computer no longer sleeps on timeout. I can get it to sleep with the Sleep command while connected and by shutting the lid while not. Curiouser and curiouser.

1 It sounds like it is trying to achieve S3 Sleep but failing to do so. That's my impression. I'll try your Event Viewer filter when I have time to sift through the description in your post, so I know what I'm looking for. Alternatively, is equivalent info available from the Sleep Study report...