Customize System Restore intervals

jimb11 · 25th April 2008

I did a registry tweak to change automatic restore points to every two days
instead of every 24 hours but it didn't work. Anyone know what could be wrong?

**Steve R Jones** · 25th April 2008

Didn't know you could do that.
What steps did you take?

**BurrWalnut** · 25th April 2008

To change the interval between system restore points, go to Start > Run, type regedit, press Enter and navigate to registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestor e.

In the right pane, RPGlobalInterval is set to 86400 (seconds) which represents 24 hours. Right-click > Modify it accordingly.

It's the same key as per XP.

**Arie** · 25th April 2008

I'm not sure tht key works in Vista. On MSDN it says:

Quote:

Windows Vista: Receives a value from the task scheduler for System Restore. Zero if the task is disabled.

So use Task Scheduler to change it.