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Create Custom Refresh Point In Windows 8 With Recimg Tool

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Although Windows 8’s Refresh Your PC feature makes it easy to restore default Windows settings without deleting your personal files & folders and installed metro apps, it doesn’t allow creating a custom system refresh image. The Refresh Your PC feature basically creates a Windows Installer Image (WIM) to carry out the assigned tasks, i.e., restore default PC settings. Windows 8 comes with a small command line tool called Recimg, which helps you create a custom Windows 8 refresh point in Windows Installer Image (WIM) format. Using this image file, you can restore your PC to a different state, which may include all your personalized Windows settings, desktop applications with saved preferences and more. Instead of using the Windows default Refresh image, you can use the custom one to restore the specific saved state of the PC. The Recimg command requires nothing except the target location to create a current snapshot of the system. Read More

Delete And Manage System Restore Points With System Restore Manager

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Creating a system restore point before installing a new software, application or driver of which you’re unsure of is a must-taken step, if an event of erratic system behavior occurs, you can easily restore the system to the previously saved state. Windows 7 offers a seamless way to create system restore points letting user to take a risk or install any application without fearing serious implications. The restore points may take large disk space to save all the information included in the system state. While cleaning up disk, you have only an option to delete all the restore points in one-go. This poses a question that what if you need to keep an important one and need to delete a specific restore point from the list? Read More