Windows 10 updates keep turning off system restore thus deleting previous restore points!

Anonymous
2017-11-23T10:00:07+00:00

Why is Windows 10 update wiping out my restore points? On November 21, I created two new restore points (manual). My C: system drive was turned on. My limit was set to 25% and my new 1 terabyte  WD hard drive is barely 30% used. This morning, I allowed an update that took a long time to download and install. Afterwards, my Task Manager had new entries, Cortana2. My previous days restore points had been deleted and C: system was turned off in system restore. This is the second time in a month that Windows update has screwed with my settings and system! Why isn't somebody doing something about this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-02-20T09:13:30+00:00

    There are two simple answers to all the problems with Windows issues, Microsoft's over reach and generally bad implementation of Windows updates, and they are the following:

    Mac OS.

    Linux.

    Outside of the work place no-one is forcing anyone to use Windows, there are perfectly good Office equivalents on both of the above OS's, perfectly good browsers as well.

    Windows has to work with a multitude of devices and brands so there are inevitably going to be issues, unlike Android which has a huge community of people WILLING to help.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-12-29T19:07:40+00:00

    Several hours ago i attempted to "restart and update" my PC after another Trojan styled windows update, apart from the verbose status messages which lets me know a little of what's happening during shutdown, being disabled the OS update failed and was stalled on a blue restarting screen for hours... With my PC being essential to both work and livelihood I can't just leave it for 24 hours hoping for the best that at some point it will actually do what its supposed to and restart so a forced reset was in order... Now take a guess what my real issue is now.?.  Yes ,, I have no restore points and an OS that will not boot to the login screen (safe mode just as useless).

    WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS??? And im telling you now I'm not doing another god damn reinstall to then spend the next 6 days straight reinstalling all my software and another 24 hours reconfiguring settings and rebuilding media libraries ect. ect. just to have it all wiped again by another windows update the day after I finish.

    This year alone I have been forced to clean reinstall windows 10 five times because of system updates.. 

    WHY????????

    Microsoft please just swallow your pride admit that win10 was developed and is updated by a bunch of high schoolers and actually hire the most expensive and reputable software developement team to build a new windows OS from scratch.

    Everyday day I'm one step closer to dedicating myself to Linux. For OS distributions that are free and once needed a pilots license they certainly seem to have made amazing progression developing user and noob friendly systems,, but what's best is all the support forums,, should you have a problem there are plenty of people to CORRECTLY provide an answer

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-11-30T17:44:11+00:00

    Just went thru an update on 11/28/18 and it wiped all my restore points out.  Can't even restore to a previous date.

    Messed up my Excel software too!!

    Quit messing **** up!!!  Tired of losing so much ****.  at least my files are backed up to carbonite so I don't lose them!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-09-08T22:30:47+00:00

    I know what.

    LET'S ALL OF US GO BACK TO W7!

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-07-21T14:28:03+00:00

    Good Luck! I really hope it helps. I meant to add a couple of screenshots. But it seems that you have it right. As long as you have an Admin (Elevated) cmd prompt, it shouldlook like this... (In the pics).

    So yes, Do the - sfc /scannow 1st. As it seems you are.

    Then the - Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth one 2nd

    (That one 'should' repair any corrupted files)

    Then, do the 1st sfc /scannow one again. That will tell you if the corrupted files have been repaired, by the Dism one.

    I'd really love it if it helped with your updates. I cant see as you have many if any options left. It may not fix it or help at all. But it cant hurt.

    Good luck with it all. I really ,mean that. I know what a big hassle it is to reinstall or restore back to factory condition.

    Cheers, Brent R.

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