19-10-2020, 12:19 PM
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W10 - System Restore Switched off?
For some reason, Microsoft seems to have switched off System Restore in recent versions of W10, or at least, buried it so that it's hard to find.If you get a screwed up W10 PC, after an update, or because you do something wrong, it can be useful to use System Restore to get back to where it was before whatever happened.
This is a note on how to find it.
If yours is turned off, you might want to turn it back on, and you might, also want to create a restore point every month, or so.
It's here:-
System Restore
1) Go to Settings
2) Select "Update & Security"
3) Top Box (under HOME) enter “System Restore”
4) Click “Create a Restore Point”
5) A new Box opens – “System Properties”
6) Check that your Protection is shown to be ON
7) If not, Turn it on.
Create a Restore point ASAP.
This just rescued me after a power drop in the middle of a W10 update!
19-10-2020, 12:36 PM
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Re: W10 - System Restore Switched off?
Originally Posted by Judd
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I do a disc image at the beginning of each month as a matter of course and every time there is a major update in the offing. That way, if something goes ti.... er, belly up, I can restore my PC to its former glory.
A system Image can be safely "off the PC" on a disk or Drive.
As long as all the data is in the cloned drive.(But that probably would not be a problem if any second drive was not "Damaged".)
A System Restore file also has most of the registry stuff, etc., but, again possibly, not all the actual data files.
Doing both, that's my new plan!
(Plus some back ups)
19-10-2020, 12:58 PM
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Re: W10 - System Restore Switched off?
Originally Posted by Tedc
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For some reason, Microsoft seems to have switched off System Restore in recent versions of W10, or at least, buried it so that it's hard to find.If you get a screwed up W10 PC, after an update, or because you do something wrong, it can be useful to use System Restore to get back to where it was before whatever happened.
This is a note on how to find it.
If yours is turned off, you might want to turn it back on, and you might, also want to create a restore point every month, or so.
It's here:-
System Restore
1) Go to Settings
2) Select "Update & Security"
3) Top Box (under HOME) enter “System Restore”
4) Click “Create a Restore Point”
5) A new Box opens – “System Properties”
6) Check that your Protection is shown to be ON
7) If not, Turn it on.
Create a Restore point ASAP.
This just rescued me after a power drop in the middle of a W10 update!
I use restore points all the time as short-term backups, and Windows itself initiates a restore point before a major change .....
But ..... they do use up a lost of disc space so some control (through System Properties) and monitoring (easiest through PrivaZer) is essential .....
19-10-2020, 07:25 PM
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Re: W10 - System Restore Switched off?
The only thing of any value to me on my pc is photos, and the best are in the clouds. I backup My Pictures from time to time to my external hard drive.Anything else pc wise of importance will fix itself. Worse case scenario, I'd have to download some freeware again.
20-10-2020, 04:17 AM
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Re: W10 - System Restore Switched off?
Originally Posted by d00d
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The only thing of any value to me on my pc is photos, and the best are in the clouds. I backup My Pictures from time to time to my external hard drive. Anything else pc wise of importance will fix itself. Worse case scenario, I'd have to download some freeware again.
I do create restore points occasionally but as you say programs and operating systems are easy to replace however I wish it was as easy as replacing the system and apps on a new phone.
20-10-2020, 06:43 PM
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Re: W10 - System Restore Switched off?
Originally Posted by Bruce
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That's my way too except the cloud is a couple of NASs. I do create restore points occasionally but as you say programs and operating systems are easy to replace however I wish it was as easy as replacing the system and apps on a new phone.
And I've built my own systems for a few decades or more, so I know my way around.
Windoze big problem has always been that it slows down over time because it's a budgerigar for using space needlessly, space that even the best of habits and applications doesn't completely recover.
There's quite a big section of Windoze users who advocate a complete wipe and reinstall at regular intervals for that reason.
Thankfully it is easy nowadays to back up information so that it's there if a system crashes, and you don't need anything fancy to do that.
To aid that I was long ago advised to keep all my data and files seperate from the OS, so I always have a "saved" folder which is then subdivided as required.
NAS's are great - but I'm reluctant here because of the number of power cuts we have.
So I have a second SSD in my NUC (the main is an MVME M2) PLUS three (yes, three) seperate portable hard drives; one permanently connected to my router (by USB3 so it's plenty fast enough); one connected permanently by USB3 to my NUC; and the other (the smallest) as a portable USB backup - and ALL with a routine for regular backup.
It's not overkill if it works, and we know discs fail - been there & done that.
So at least 3 copies has been my minimum for years and that policy has saved me so much time over the years as well as making building a new system (like buying a new PC) far, far easier.
Even big capacity portable disks are cheap nowadays (6TB are only just over £100 for example) so the one connected to the router has a copy backup from OH's lappy and one from son's lappy too, with plenty space to spare..
I tend to back up files myself and only use Windoze restore points very occasionally and it's backup never because of the way it hogs both space and resources, and my system is like this because a friend who was a software developer advised me many years ago saying that trying system recovery is just one resort but that I needed more.
Since he got poached by a Yank co to emigrate with a quarter-million-pound "golden hello" before his ruddy wages even, I figured he was smart enough to know what he was talking about.
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