Windows 10: Microsoft apps missing after restore point windows 11

Hi, I have a Surface Pro 7 running Windows 11, which was upgraded from Windows 10 around 4 weeks ago. Everything was fine until I decided to add an additional clock in settings so that I could see the time in seconds. It didn't work as planned as the seconds weren't ticking up, so I removed the setting and restarted. This fixed it when I clicked on the time in the bottom right corner, however the time on the lock screen still had frozen seconds on it. I therefore decided to restore my operating system to a restore point I made 3 days ago. It took over 5 hours to restore, and at the end of it,

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Automatically Create System Restore Point at Startup in Windows 10  


Hello ma3ino,

Please double check using the screenshots under step 11 to verify if the restore point is listed there.

 

Windows 10 System Restore Show More Restore Points Box Missing and Restore Points Being Deleted or Missing

Hi Steven,

There are several reasons why the Show more restore points check box is missing. Some of these are the following:

• You run out of disk space on the system drive or on any one of the available non-system drives, and System Restore stops responding and stops monitoring your system.
• You manually turn System Restore off.
• You upgrade from one operating system to another or you reinstall the operating system

In your case, as you have reinstalled Windows, it's possible that all restore points are deleted, that's why the
Show more restore points check box is not appearing. Did you delete all the partitions when you reinstall Windows? If yes, then all the manually and automatically created restore points will disappear. For further isolation of the issue, we suggest that
you create a new restore point and monitor if it will disappear in a few days just like the others.

We'll wait for your response.

 

Restore points missing

Hi Duke,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand the inconvenience you are facing currently. Let me help you in resolving the issue.

The deletion of restore points may be caused by any one of the following by-design conditions:

- You run out of disk space on the system drive or on any one of the available non-system drives, and System Restore stops responding and stops monitoring your system.

- You manually turn System Restore off.

- A restore point reaches an age of 90 days. The restore point is then deleted because 90 days is the default time to live.

I suggest you to follow the methods below and check if that helps.

Method 1: Safe Mode

Step 1: To start Windows 10 in
safe mode:

• Search for Settings from the taskbar and select it from the search results.
• Select Update & security and click on Recovery.
• Go to Advanced startup and select
  Restart now.
• After your PC restarts to the Choose an option screen, select
  Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings >Restart.
• After your PC restarts, select a startup setting as Safe Mode with Networking by pressing the corresponding number.

If the issue does not persists in Safe Mode with Networking, then perform a Clean Boot to check if any third party application is causing the issue, as Clean Boot helps in eliminating software conflicts.

Step 2: Put the computer in Clean Boot and check if it helps.

By setting your system in Clean Boot state helps in identifying if any third party applications or startup items are causing the issue.

How to perform a Clean Boot to troubleshoot a problem in Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Note: After Clean Boot troubleshooting step, refer to “How to reset the computer to start as usual after troubleshooting with Clean Boot” from the article.

Method 2: Run the System File Checker tool (SFC.exe)

System File Checker is a utility in Windows that allows users to scan for corruptions in Windows system files and restore corrupted files. It will scan your system files and to repair missing or corrupted system files in Windows.
To run the SFC scan, refer to the Microsoft article below.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929833

Hope the information helps. Please let us know if the issue persist and we will be happy to assist you further.