Windows 10: restore point keep being removed by windows 10 home build 1903

Microsoft Issues Warning For 800M Windows 10 Users

Jun 29, 2019, 07:40pm

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/06/29/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-registry-warning-upgrade-windows/#1ab1cba171ef

Windows 10 is in a rut. The platform has been hit with multiple problems in recent weeks and partners have been making things even worse. But now an important new Windows 10 warning (and the failure behind it) falls squarely on Microsoft’s shoulders.

Picked up by the ever-excellent Ghacks, Microsoft has issued a warning to all its 800M Windows 10 users that a serious and long-running bug in the platform is not actually a bug at all. Instead, the problem was introduced “by design”. And it’s worrying on multiple levels.

What Microsoft confirms it did was quietly switch off Registry backups in Windows 10 eight months ago, despite giving users the impression this crucial safeguarding system was still working. As Ghacks spotted at the time, Registry backups would show “The operation completed successfully", despite no backup file being created.



Backing up a registry is a crucial last line of defence for many businesses and everyday users. Should a Windows System Restore point fail, barring the use of third-party software, the registry backup is all you have. And yet Microsoft has now spelt out what was actually happening:


“Starting in Windows 10, version 1803, Windows no longer automatically backs up the system registry to the RegBack folder. If you browse to the WindowsSystem32configRegBack folder in Windows Explorer, you will still see each registry hive, but each file is 0kb in size.”

Windows 10 1803 was released in October and, despite the issue being flagged to Microsoft in its Feedback Hub service at the time, only now is the company coming clean about what happened. Ironically, this disclosure comes just two months after Microsoft pledged to give Windows 10 users more "control, quality and transparency".

So why has Microsoft done this? In the company’s own words: “to help reduce the overall disk footprint size of Windows”. And how big is a registry backup? Typically 50-100MB.

In an extremely belated attempt to put things right, Microsoft has detailed a workaround. Ironically, it involves editing the registry but this will undoubtedly have come too late for users who, in their hour of need, discovered the registry backups Windows 10 told them were “completed successfully” were nothing of the sort.

In recent months Microsoft has intensified its attempt to move hundreds of millions of Windows 7 users to Windows 10. But it is actions like this, which is why many of them will resist to the bitter end.

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Windows app removal - restore point

Hello,

Restore points are generated when you install a new application, Windows Update or driver. You can also manually create a restore point. Restoring to an earlier point of time won't affect your personal files, but it will remove all the applications, drivers
and Windows Updates installed after the restore point was made. To better assist you regarding your concern, we'd like to know more information.

• Do you see any available restore point on your computer?
• Have you tried reinstalling the applications that were removed?
• What other troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?

For more details about System Restore, please check this
link and refer to Restore from a system restore point section.

Thank you.

 

How to remove restore points?

Hi,

Please follow the steps below to remove restore points in Windows 10.

Step 1: Press Windows+Pause Break key to open System and choose
System protection.

Step 2: Select the hard disk whose system protection is on, and click
Configure.

Step 3: Tap the Delete button.

Step 4: Choose Continue to remove all restore points on the selected drive.

Hope this helps. Get back to us for further queries. We are happy to help!

 

restore point keep being removed windows 10 home build1903

40GB, on a 500GB with 363GB free, please note I have a 1000GB drive split into 500GB each drive.

This started when windows 10 1903 updated, the system restore will make a restore point then a few days later remove said restore point.

Thanks Greg