Windows 10: System Restore full even when disabled.

Is this a bug or some weird oversight by myself??? A while back I noticed some of the machines I manage with fairly small SSD's were becoming full very quickly. When prepping new machines, I always make sure System Restore is disabled. However, when trying to free up some space, I noticed multiple machines showed System Restore using the max (10%) drive space, even though it was set to disabled... What's more strange is I am unable to delete these restore points. If I click delete, it shows 0 bytes used, but upon opening the window up again, it still shows the same usage. The only way I can seemingly remove them is set the allowed usage down to 1%.

Oh yes... Windows 10 Enterprise. I think I first noticed it around the 1809 release. And no usage during the preperations (at least not until the machine is on the domain).

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How do I disable system restore?

I hear dif you have a virus.... after you clean your machine.... 100% cleaned then you disable your system restore and turn it on back something like that.

how do I disable system restore?

 

How do I disable system restore?

oh ok got it.

so..... what exactly is system restore? is it that thing where you reformat?


when do i turn it on back?

1- virus
2- cleaned system
3- disable system restore
4- uhh now what?
5- do i turn it on right away after disable it or wait few min or day?

 

How to delete inactive System Image Restore Points in System Restore

Windows 10 64-bit.
When I click "show more restore points" in System Restore I see a bunch of old "system image restore points" that were deleted in past and do not correspond to any currently active restore points. Clicking any of these old restore points, I simply get an error message saying they could not be found, and to select another restore point instead.I would like to delete these restore points listings but have been unable to do so.
So far, I have tried steps mentioned below without any luck :

Disk Cleanup through (C Properties
Disable System Protection (OFF and ON) in System Protection for OS (C
Disk Space Usage to minimum (slider button all the way to the left then 'Delete all restore points for this drive'),
Delete all shown Restore points in CCleaner (the problem ones do not show here),
Reset Windows Backup to Default in Windows 10 with 'Reset_Windows_Backup.bat' utility.

Any suggestions highly welcome.