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Win 10 updates & Restore point
Soon after installing Win 10, I turned on system restore for the C:
drive. With all the system updates I've received since then, a restore point has never been created before an update. Is this the norm for Win 10? Cheers Gary |
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Win 10 updates & Restore point
Gary Dingle wrote:
Soon after installing Win 10, I turned on system restore for the C: drive. With all the system updates I've received since then, a restore point has never been created before an update. Is this the norm for Win 10? Use Macrium Reflect. Windows utilities have always sucked and they always will. Do it yourself. |
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Win 10 updates & Restore point
Gary Dingle wrote:
Soon after installing Win 10, I turned on system restore for the C: drive. With all the system updates I've received since then, a restore point has never been created before an update. Is this the norm for Win 10? Cheers Gary One reason that can happen, is the status of System Protection on your C: drive. I checked my Insider Edition in 14915, and one of my Insider installs listed C: as "[missing]" in the System Protection partition list. In other words, the status of C: was "enabled" so it reflected my setting of having System Restore enabled for C: . But it claimed on the other hand, that something was missing. The controls were grayed out, size was zero, you couldn't make restore points, no restore points were listed. You couldn't change the settings. It was well and truly jammed up. I've since installed 14936 over it, and both installs are in working condition again. In the System Protection item on the left in the System Control Panel, there is an option to create a restore point on demand. You can use that function to test that the plumbing of SR is working. Paul |
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Win 10 updates & Restore point
On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 04:53:58 -0400, Paul
wrote: Gary Dingle wrote: Soon after installing Win 10, I turned on system restore for the C: drive. With all the system updates I've received since then, a restore point has never been created before an update. Is this the norm for Win 10? Cheers Gary One reason that can happen, is the status of System Protection on your C: drive. I checked my Insider Edition in 14915, and one of my Insider installs listed C: as "[missing]" in the System Protection partition list. In other words, the status of C: was "enabled" so it reflected my setting of having System Restore enabled for C: . But it claimed on the other hand, that something was missing. The controls were grayed out, size was zero, you couldn't make restore points, no restore points were listed. You couldn't change the settings. It was well and truly jammed up. I've since installed 14936 over it, and both installs are in working condition again. In the System Protection item on the left in the System Control Panel, there is an option to create a restore point on demand. You can use that function to test that the plumbing of SR is working. Paul Thanks Paul I should have mentioned in my post that I've used "Restore Point Creator", a free app which adds an item in the scheduler. I've set that to create a restore point every day at 4am, so I can recover if needed. That's been working OK. Of course I also do disk/partition backups to an external drive. I was just mystified why windows update, of all things, isn't doing a restore point creation. Cheers, Gary |
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