{"id":66,"date":"2015-01-09T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/01\/09\/powertip-find-restore-points-with-powershell\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:05","slug":"powertip-find-restore-points-with-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-find-restore-points-with-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Find Restore Points with PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find restore points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a list of restore points on my computers running <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows&nbsp;8.1 or Windows 8?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>Get-ComputerRestorePoint<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><b>Notes&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"list-style-type:none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Start the Windows PowerShell console with Administrator rights to run this command.<\/li>\n<li>New restore points are created via the&nbsp;<a href=\"\/b\/heyscriptingguy\/archive\/2014\/01\/18\/powertip-use-powershell-to-create-computer-restore-point.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">CheckPoint-Computer cmdlet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find restore points. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a list of restore points on my computers running &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows&nbsp;8.1 or Windows 8? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ComputerRestorePoint&nbsp;cmdlet. Notes&nbsp; Start the Windows PowerShell console with Administrator rights to run this command. New restore points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[356,3,45],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Learn how to use Windows PowerShell to find restore points. &nbsp;How can I use Windows PowerShell to find a list of restore points on my computers running &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows&nbsp;8.1 or Windows 8? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;Get-ComputerRestorePoint&nbsp;cmdlet. Notes&nbsp; Start the Windows PowerShell console with Administrator rights to run this command. New restore points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}