Windows 10: Turn On or Off System Protection for Drives in Windows 10

You're most welcome Kensiko. *Smile

 

Hey brink,

I have done 3 windows 10 installs (even different install media) and so far every single one of them had system protection disabled by default.

 

Hello Andrew, *Smile

Yep, system protection is turned off by default now in Windows 10.

 

That is incredibly stupid for microsoft to do. I hope they change that.

btw, you might want to update your note in the tut *Wink

 

I KNOW, I tried for a while until I finally figured it out! My backup software is running into problems with the shadow storage areas located on the same drive as the one being imaged, something about too much activity, too quickly. it was recommended that I move the current or create another associated shadow storage location to a hard drive separate from the system drive. I'm running Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit; Xeon Quad Core; 32 GB RAM; plenty of free space; test of restore point creation succeeded. This seemed to be a valid suggestion, supported by volsnap errors in event viewer.

Are there any workarounds you know of to do this in Windows 10?

Thanks!

 

Hello Kengrush,

None that I'm aware of right now. *Sad

 

Guys,
I followed your instructions, but c drive (win10) is still protected.
FYI: protection of c drive turned off, UAC off.
Does anybody knows how turn of the C drive protection?
Thanks

 

Hello yarinnn, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Did you do all of step 9?

Please go ahead and post some screenshots showing your settings to see if it may reveal anything.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...en-forums.html

 

Hi,
no problem. but sorry for czech language on screenshots

 

No problem yarinnn. That's what Google Translate is for. *Wink

Your screenshot shows that System Protection is currently turned off for all drives. Is there someplace else you see where it's still turned on?

 

It is turned of everywhere I´m aware of.
Third screenshot shows that folder "program files" is protected

 

The screenshot in Total Commander is just showing a "Access to the file was denied" error message. This wouldn't have anything to do with Windows System Protection. System Protection is for restore points and previous versions instead.

 

it could be a hiden recovery partetion look in dosshell diskpart /list disk and check on the drive list partetion
if you see one there i thing its list id=07 it will appeir on the drive list in system sorry you need to selected before the id command

 

What else can protect c drive for writing? In win8.1 everything worked fine - no bother mesagges.

FYI: when I click to " write as admin" it works (And I already tryed in folder propeties to change attributes)

 

Yarinnn,

Is the .pdf file password protected?

As a test, copy the .pdf file to your desktop, and try opening it from there.