Solved Microsoft Restore Point in HP Support Assistant

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Hello, again. I need some info re creating restore points. In the HP Support Assistant, under updates and tune-up-change tune-up tasks, should the "set restore point" be turned on to "yes" when a tune-up is scheduled? I understand that windows 8.1 automatically sets restore points, but I don't know how or when or where the restore point info is stored. Is the HP Support Assistant "set restore points" the actual method used by Microsoft or an additional option?

Thank you.
 

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System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion 17-e040us
    Mouse
    Logitech wireless w/USB Connect Mouse
Is the HP Support Assistant "set restore points" the actual method used by Microsoft or an additional option? Thank you.

No.

First off, I have an HP Pavilion Desktop (500-075) purchased 12/2014 so I have some first hand experience. It was preloaded with 8.0 and upgraded to 8.1 and all the other current updates.

IMHO, HP Support Assistant can be a problematic program. ( I will get to that later.)

I don't believe MS uses the HP Framework for any of the MS service routines. If I were you I would turn off all the HP tune-up tasks because they would be redundant, the MS maintenance tasks do everything and more. Anything HP Support Assistant does can be easily performed manually as well. Personally I don't want the HP setting Restore Points and especially defragging the disks. It seems every add-on third party program wants to service your computer. While windows will automatically create some Restore Points under certain conditions I prefer to create them manually so it's always under my control. At any time you can see all the stored Restore Points as well as set the overall storage space for Restore Points by going to the Recovery Section and select Restore Point configuration.

Back to HP Support Assistant: Support Assistant is a rather complex piece of software that I wish was never installed. Check out the HP Support Forum, many HP users have difficulty uninstalling the program and/or getting the proper version to work correctly. I have disabled all the Support Assistant tasks in Task Manager because a couple of the HP service tasks were generating critical errors when attempting to run automatically. Even after all the MS 8.0/8.1 Upgrades and Updates the only real problems I have had were related to HP Support Assistant not any of the MS Upgrades/Updates. I will eventually uninstall the HP Support Assistant but for now, with most functions disabled it is not causing me any issues.
 

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System One

  • OS
    windows 8.1 64, LT -Windows 10 Home 64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP 500-075 Desktop + HP 15-f018dx Laptop
    CPU
    Intel Core i5 3470 Ivy Bridge 3.2 GHz Quad Core/ LT - i3-4030U 1.9 GHz
    Motherboard
    Foxcon Joshua-H61-uATX
    Memory
    8 GB/ LT - 6GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD (DX10.1)
    Sound Card
    Integrated IDT 92HD73E
    Hard Drives
    1T HDD, 16G Sandisk Cache Drive, 2T Seagate 3.0 External
    Keyboard
    Wireless
    Mouse
    Wireless
    Browser
    IE11
    Antivirus
    Norton 360
    Other Info
    CyberPower UPS, Macrium Backup, Revo Pro, Malwarebytes Premium
Is the HP Support Assistant "set restore points" the actual method used by Microsoft or an additional option? Thank you.

No.

First off, I have an HP Pavilion Desktop (500-075) purchased 12/2014 so I have some first hand experience. It was preloaded with 8.0 and upgraded to 8.1 and all the other current updates.

IMHO, HP Support Assistant can be a problematic program. ( I will get to that later.)

I don't believe MS uses the HP Framework for any of the MS service routines. If I were you I would turn off all the HP tune-up tasks because they would be redundant, the MS maintenance tasks do everything and more. Anything HP Support Assistant does can be easily performed manually as well. Personally I don't want the HP setting Restore Points and especially defragging the disks. It seems every add-on third party program wants to service your computer. While windows will automatically create some Restore Points under certain conditions I prefer to create them manually so it's always under my control. At any time you can see all the stored Restore Points as well as set the overall storage space for Restore Points by going to the Recovery Section and select Restore Point configuration.

Back to HP Support Assistant: Support Assistant is a rather complex piece of software that I wish was never installed. Check out the HP Support Forum, many HP users have difficulty uninstalling the program and/or getting the proper version to work correctly. I have disabled all the Support Assistant tasks in Task Manager because a couple of the HP service tasks were generating critical errors when attempting to run automatically. Even after all the MS 8.0/8.1 Upgrades and Updates the only real problems I have had were related to HP Support Assistant not any of the MS Upgrades/Updates. I will eventually uninstall the HP Support Assistant but for now, with most functions disabled it is not causing me any issues.

Thank you for your reply and the information about HP Support Assistant and the info on creating restore points. I think I will disable some of the tasks in HP support assistant as well and use the microsoft's program for automatic restore points.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    HP Pavilion 17-e040us
    Mouse
    Logitech wireless w/USB Connect Mouse
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