Solved System Restore - show all restore points

POLYSIUS said:

@trumpy81

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If all restore points are listed by default you can't enable/show more restore points!
Do not just read that! You have to understand it and find out what it means!

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Once again, you have failed to grasp the issues here.

The point is, one must be able to select the restore point and use the restore point to restore the PC with.

The command you provided is good if you want to manage your restore points, but absolutely useless if you want to use a restore point.

Pamela's issues are:
a) You can only see part of the list of restore points until you click on Show more restore points
b) You cannot select and use another restore point until it is listed in the System Restore dialogue

Before selecting Show more restore points:



After selecting Show more restore points:



As you can see, all restore points are now listed, so it's NOT a matter of not being able to view them, it's just a pain that you have to click on Show more restore points first.

I am with @Stigg, I do not know why Microsoft decided to change things this way, it does not make any logical sense at all IMHO.

There is no reason ALL restore points could not be listed here, removing the other dialogue and buttons completely:



After much net searching, I now suspect that the only way to correct this issue would be to modify the program exe's/dll's directly, which is not ideal as the modified items would be replaced when running sfc /scannow etc...

Besides, using System Restore is not a frequent event for anyone, some people have never used it at all, so the question becomes, how important are these changes?

That was clear and helpful. And I now know that my guess above about seeing no option to show more points was about half right: I haven’t seen that option in years because I never have more than four restore points, and since I wipe number four each night, any time I open SR, I see my three and never any option button.

@Wisewiz
That is correct. If you were to NOT delete your restore points and let them accumulate, then you would indeed see the Show more restore points.

If disk space is at a premium, then managing the system restore points makes perfect sense, but if you need to use it, then guaranteed, the restore point you need to use is the one you just deleted ... lol

I am kind of hoping that Microsoft will address these issues once they advance a little further with the GUI revamp.

Maybe we will see changes in Windows 12, but by then it will probably follow the subscription model and System Restore will be handled at their end, not ours, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯