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

You have my sympathy - If I had a dollar for every hour of my life that buggy Microsoft software has wasted, I'd be a rich man! What really disturbs me is the total lack of interest or accountability from our wonderful Redmond friends. Too often have I spent hours or even days searching countless Internet forums for the solution to a specific Windows problem, only to have to eventually format the drive and start over. My solution to this (and it has saved my life, figuratively, many times) is to install a scheduled disk cloning package like Acronis or Macrium Reflect that clones my entire Windows drive to ANOTHER, preferably external, drive on a daily or weekly basis. External hard drives are relatively cheap these days. Set up your computer so that you have a separate Windows drive that holds no data, only the OS and installed apps. It won't be too big - mine is about 150Gb. Imaged it occupies about 50Gb. Make sure you have created a bootable recovery disk with your imaging software (either DVD or USB) so that restoring your entire Windows drive is not too much of a hassle.

Windows does have the built-in option to create a system image to another drive, believe it or not, which you could try if you want to rely on Microsoft software. I don't. Too often it fails with some incomprehensible error message and then you can just forget it.

If you do go this route it makes further sense to also have a separate drive just for data, and back this up regularly too. 

It's worth the peace of mind. Windows updates, even disk failures or theft of your entire PC, is no longer a concern. You can restore your entire system, with all installed apps and settings, in usually less than an hour.

I know what.

LET'S ALL OF US GO BACK TO W7!

Indeed, Windows 7 was so stable.   I think that it appears that Microsoft might go the way of Apple, with issues and complaints.   I never had update issues with Windows 7  - - not one time!

It is seemingly related to the number of new useless apps that Windows 10 creators update added to my system, which are apps I would never use, such as Gaming, Weather, etc.   Thus, it sppears that W10 is overloaded.   Simple functionality is what we all should be pushing on Microsoft to implement.

These problems are similar to those I encountered with Windows "Smart phones" which were the worst implementation ever.  I switched to Android and it seems that maybe Chrome will be our obvious choice.

God Forbid we get pushed into the GOOGLE environment...they control enough!

I appreciate your reply.

Just keep us updated with the result so we can provide further assistance.

Photos of the error message or anything that you may encounter unussual is highly appreciated.

Regards.

Hello, after weeks of trying everthing, short of downloading a clean install which I should not have to do, I am still stuck on "detecting problems" using the WU Troubleshooter.   It shows a blue bar, running across my screen, with a note:   "intiliazing the diagnostic."   IT IS STUCK!

When I go into my FIND W10 Update HISTORY, it is empty!

Why is this happening?

I am trying to simple update W10!

the best way i found was aronis backup or norton ghost ....microsoft does not want you to reverse their ot so great improvements...alot of them realy svck

I have been an IT professional since the days of Windows 3.1 and if I had a dollar for every hour of my time that has been wasted by intractable and unsolvable Microsoft glitches I would be rich today. 

Yes, it is quite unreal what I am going through here to get what should be a simple update to finish!

I am **HOPING** that Microsoft is listening?    My Brother-in-Law told me yesterday that Microsoft **SEEMS** to be making users report glitches and then they PATCH updates to make them work.   Sounds possible.

DJ