Windows 11 Task Scheduler to automate creating restore points

[Steven Haymes]

To All,I am setting up a new Windows 11 laptop.A long, long time ago, in Windows XP days, I created a scheduled task in Task Manager to automate creating restore points which when exported to XML, in part looks like:<Exec> <Command>C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WMIC.exe</Command> <Arguments>/Namespace:\\root\default Path SystemRestore Call CreateRestorePoint "Automatic Restore Point", 100, 7</Arguments> </Exec>I have used this over the years in several different computers, with the last two running Windows 10. Somewhere along the way, I got the message

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