A useful icon to have on your desktop, if you tend to use this function a lot, would be a System Restore icon: You could just click a single icon on the desktop and the system Restore window is displayed almost immediately.

Unfortunately Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, didn’t include a System Restore desktop icon by default in XP – But fear not: You can create your own:

You can also do this in Windows 7; but the path for the shortcut is slightly different. More on that in a while.

It’s just an icon that sits on the desktop with all the rest of them.

How to make an icon to click (Done in XP.):

Right-click on a blank area of your desktop (Where there are no icons.) and mouse-over “New” in the box that appears. Click “Shortcut”. Another box appears asking you to type the location of the item: If you’re doing this in Windows XP; enter in the full path:

“C:\WINDOWS\system32\Restore\rstrui.exe”

and click next.

If you’re creating this shortcut in Windows 7, the path is slightly different: –

Enter the path “C:\WINDOWS\system32\rstrui.exe”

and click next.

It now asks you to type a name for this shortcut: I named mine, strangely enough, “System Restore”. 

Click next, the box vanishes, and a system Restore icon appears on your desktop. – Target neutralised.

Any time you want to restore the computer to an earlier configuration or create a new unscheduled restore point, just click the icon and do the usual thing: It really is that simple!

And that, dear reader(s); is that. – Target neutralised.

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