Windows 10: Windows deleting my System Restore points :-(

I have Googled this (for years now, on and off) but have never found anything that resolves the problem. If anyone has any ideas, or even a solution...

Three days ago, all my system restore points had vanished (yet again): I have a small programme run on startup which shows me onscreen how many restore points I have, so that I am alerted when there are suddenly none: I hardly ever use them but they have been a life-saver in the past of course and I don't like to be without at least one. I sighed, emptied the Recycle Bin, deleted my browsing history (I often do a mini 'cleanup' before creating a restore point) and manually created a new one.

Today, it's gone, and I have no restore points to fall back on yet again... and so it goes on, every few days. I have the system configured to use 10% of my disc space, which is enough for at least a dozen restore points. So why, when there is just one, does Windows remove it after some days? I have made no changes to the PC that might account for this (that I am aware of). The restore point was there last night, and now I boot up, and it isn't.

Nothing I have found online has ever fixed this annoyance, in Windows 7 and now the same in Windows 10, so I am not expecting much by posting this (no disrespect to anyone here!!), but well, you never know.

Win10 Pro (Build 18363.1082)

Many thanks!

:)

 

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.

 

How to delete inactive System Image Restore Points in System Restore

I know of no easier way to delete them, so here are the instructions.

Delete System Image Restore Point from System Restore in Windows 10

A System Image restore point is describe as type 'Backup'.





First, go to Settings > Backup & Restore > Recovery and select the 'Restart now' button in Advanced Start-up.





When you get Advanced Start-up, select Troubleshoot, then Advanced Options, then Command Prompt.





You will be asked to choose an administrator account and supply it's password, then the Command Prompt will open.

Type the commands DISKPART then LIST VOL and EXIT to see a list of all drives, in this example the Windows system is on the C: drive, yours may have a different letter. Whatever the letter is, type it followed by a colon to switch to that drive, in this example I typed C:





Then use the CD (change directory) command CD System Volume Information\WindowsImageBackup

Use the DIR command to check you are in the right folder, then use DEL to delete the contents of each of the Catalog and SPPMetadataCache folders.





Youn can now close the command prompt window (or type EXIT) to restart the PC and go back to Windows.

All System Image Restore points of type 'Backup' will now have gone.

 

Windows 10 system image restore points unable to delete

Have deleted system image backups using the windows 10 suggested method. But 2 system image rstore points are still listed under other backups. Have tried all the suggested methods on the net and from the microsoft community, but the system image restore
points remain. Even after deleting all but the last normal restore points. I guess I can just ignore them. Would appreciate any advice as nothing seems to remove them.