Anybody know why Microsoft disabled System Restore by default in Windows 10? It was one of the great features of Windows but Microsoft in all their wisdom decided to disable System Restore by default? The only question I can ask is why?
It will be disabled, if your system partition is too small. I can not even upgrade with 40GB partition, MCT fails to run, stupid MS.
Because its crap, and they know most disable it now anyway, well, if one has any sense We also don't need it now, as everything gets restored at each update anyway, regardless of what one does.
Indeed, there is Last Known Good Configuration, if Windows fails to boot, it will restore from there. I have got 28GB of free space, that is plenty. Windows does not check for free space, but for the size of the partition, It even refuses to install, if it is less than 30GB.
Well, mine wasn't disabled by default. Plus, I do find it useful. In fact, I consider it as undervalued among computer users. And an update is by no means a substitute, doesn't even come close to it, as it won't affect installed programs for a start.
Where did You get such data, that Microsoft has disabled it by default? Quite the contrary, Microsoft has made it even more robust and more forced as ever before. But at the same time there is a real chance for any administrator to change it. If this is forbidden on Your computer, contact your computer administrator. Most likely he has make changes there.
It happened to him? It does happen, but I don't think it happens 100% of the time. There's something that Windows 10 detects during the installation or during the OOBE phase that leads it to disable system restore on the C:\ drive. I don't know what causes it but I've seen it happen many times.
Well I support PCs on a regular basis and 9/10 Win systems I come across all have System Restore disabled This was totally different back in Vista, XP days! Where 9/10 PCs had System Restore enabled.
mine was also enabled by default, os- win 10 pro storage- 1tb+ Also, this feature has actually helped me once when i was trying to customize the os via 3rd party tools. BSOD starting showing up on each reboot, i had a system image to restore the whole disk so i wasn't worried, but i thought to try this "system protection", there was a "backup" present which was auto created right before the soft installation, i simply clicked on it and followed the steps and everything went to normal in a few steps.
ive had clean win10 installs have it sometimes enabled, sometimes disabled on the very same machine with no hardware changes (laptop)
I actually go out of my way to remove it thanks to MSMG Toolkit https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/msmg-toolkit.50572 I've come to like that little toolkit
Usually if there's enough free space available, it'll be enabled (for the system drive) only after the second boot on a clean install.
not really, tested in a clean install in an empty HDD with 1TB size, and is still disabled by default.