Windows 10: Be careful about Win 10 Restore Point.

After I clean installed Win 10, and then installed many programs that I normally use. And when the computer worked just the way I wanted - I decided to set the Restore Point right then.
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Then I started (doing foolish things) fixing problems trying to get Win 10 and Win XP computers to be able to talk to one another and use one another's printers. Changed settings here and there and Services section on Win 10. Before I knew it, the computer became so slow - I could click a mouse and waited forever to see its response (next screen), the computer became unusable.

I thought I was safe, just use the Restore Point to get back to where when the computer was working great.
To my surprise, it took a long long time and ended up with a screen with nothing but an Icon of Recycle Bin on the top left corner - all my installed programs were gone and still is a mighty slow computer.

I had to do another clean install and then installed all the programs I normally use again. Cost me lots of time.

This Windows 10 Restore Point just doesn't do what I thought it would do - return to the day when everything was working fine and computer was fast. (At least that was what happened to me.)

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about a care point

I need a suggestion about complaining or not to complain about a care point in our city (Amritsar, punjab, India). I just came out of from that care point. I asked them to update my lumia 640 xl. They answered me that there is no update available for my
phone. They also told me that they don't have a wifi connection. There is a trial version of windows 10 available for my phone, they told me. What can i do now? Can i think that the employees are not good in that care point? Or there is any problem with my
phone? Before going there, i also called to call centre of Microsoft.

 

Be careful with Win 10 install solutions...

So I was getting update error 80240020 every time MS tried to send the Win10 enable update...

Looked around on the Internet (including here), found the solution of deleting the contents of the windows/softwaredistribution/downloads folder... Gave it a try.

Now the hidden $Windows.~BT folder that had 4 Gb of Windows 10 files just waiting to be unleashed has somehow shriveled to 140 Mb. So, kind of a big step backwards there.

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It is not a substitute for a good backup, that is for sure.

 

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Thanks. I did do the Backup and set the "Restore Point" in the same evening.
After the compute ran into problems and became unusable, I chose to use the Restore Point. I have no idea if I invoked "Backup" it would make my computer as fast as before and get all my files back. I doubt it.

If I had done a bootable image of my hard disk (about 5 DVD disks, not too many files on the hard disk at the time), then that should help.
(Then again, I have never done that before - making a bootable image of my hard disk on DVDs.)

 

In the Win XP era, I could set the "Restore Point", and if later the computer got into trouble, I could use that Restore Point to get the computer to return to the exactly same condition when the Restore Point was set.

Not in Windows 10. Windows 10's "Restore Point" is a joke at this moment. (Hope Microsoft will fix this.)

 

I had the opposite effect with System Restore. I had to use it three times this past week because I ended up messing something up, but learned my lesson, and won't be playing around with system settings anymore (at least with things I really don't know much about). I would create a restore point then play around with settings and such. One of the times it was good for three days, but then the computer would become unstable to the point I could not undo what I did, so I restored back to the last point I made. All three times when I received the "System Restore completed successfully...." box after reboot I had all my stuff right where I left them as if I never proceeded after creating the point in the first place from theme settings to desktop icons/folders. Sorry to hear your bad luck, but System Restore saved me three times so far. I hope you figure out what made it not work correctly for you.

 

System Restore Point was never a reliable source of backup, taken up disk space, often corrupted and also a resource hog. Your best bet is to create a backup image using either: AOMEI Backupper Or Macrium Reflect Free to an external HD, not to CD/DVD. The process only takes few minutes to backup/restore. In addition, it is advisable to separate the Windows OS and personal Data so you won't lose any data in case you have to restore Windows.

 

Restore point was never intended to be a backup, it doesn't backup personal files etc. There are other options for backup, you can change system just so much for it to work. Win 10 is no exception.

 

Very true. I only use restore as a fail safe for bad updates, or if I tweak a system setting, and it goes bad. I do back up my files to an external source. When I restore I really only look for it to undo the bad thing I did or Microsoft did.

 

If you want to restore your system, you need to make an image backup of your disk, You can do this with macrium reflect free edition.