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@henmedia henmedia released this 26 Aug 08:15
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v1.0.0
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First public release.

Download pitr-config.cmd below — that single file is the whole tool. No installation, no
dependencies, no PowerShell modules. Double-click it; it requests administrator rights itself.

What it does. Windows exposes restore point frequency and retention on the Enterprise
edition only. The edition gate sits in the Settings user interface, not in the engine, so
this tool writes the engine's configuration directly and makes both settings available on
Home and Pro as well.

Interface. English and German, detected from the Windows display language, switchable at
any time. Shows the current state, the existing restore points, the scheduled task's status
and the shadow storage figures.

Three things worth knowing.

  • Frequency is an earliest possible interval, not a guarantee — restore points are only
    created while the system is idle. The tool shows when a run is waiting for that, and
    Apply and run now forces a point immediately.
  • Only the OS volume is covered. Other partitions and disks are neither captured nor rolled
    back, not even on the same physical disk.
  • The registry values this tool writes are undocumented by Microsoft. A future Windows
    release may change them, at which point the default behaviour simply applies again.
    Reset everything undoes all of it.

See the README for how it works and
what was verified how.

SHA-256 of pitr-config.cmd

32eaf80704c2a5ede1714ee174ca3d9799a2a47f0f2f492f338cda5791c2b57b

Worth comparing before running something that writes to HKLM:

Get-FileHash pitr-config.cmd -Algorithm SHA256
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