Patched Edge 136.0.3240.76 on Win7 Pro ESU build 6.1.7601.27717 thanks for the help @@ELF_7719116 and QQ
Must have caught you on a bad day. Seems a little like those who have treat those who have not; Snide sarcastic quips. Get a giggle out of your one word answer? Add it to the 768 posts that were not liked. Thank you for your time & service anyway. I am sure you have had better days.
Hmmm, crazy result trying Avast/Bing. It seems kinda fishy. Since browser support for Win 7 is fading fast, I tried Avast yesterday (don't laugh). Avast's recommend search engine is Bing, which still appears to be subpar after all these years. You'd think with the passage of time they would have figured out how to emulate google? Surprise! For the first time in 16 years of using Win 7, all of my system restore points disappeared. I'm highly suspicious of a bing software blowing out my restore points, because in the 10 years of Win 10 they never got around to making system restore reliable. That's my primary motivation for staying on 7, as long as there's a useable browser.
You had 16 years of restore points on your system drive? Wow. Have you not read about all of the blown Win 11 systems every month by M$ updates? Your comments do not inspire further conversation; about anything. FYI many of us have already picked out the Linux distro we will transition to in Jan 2026. And most of us have used some version of backups other than system restore for decades. Couple of months worth of restore points is all that is needed with regular weekly backups on another drive or cloud. Just say'n. There are actually many browser options available for Win 7. Read backwards from here. Pages are full.
Thanks, will do. If I can figure out how to secure boot Win 7, then I'll have a bit more time until I've learned how to secure boot a Linux distro. Actually only a couple months of system restore points were on my pewter. I meant to say that I've been relying on system restore, after every internet session, as my security protocol for the past 16 years. I've hit my share of bad websites over the years, but no detectable threats after a full 12-hour scan by Malwarebytes.
I used to use system restore now and then, but I abandoned that after I purchased Macrium Reflect 8 licenses and set up regular image backups onto a secondary PC/server. Now in the rare event that I need to revert to an earlier system state, I just flash that backup image onto the drive. Takes maybe 30 minutes.
Thanks so much. In Win 7, I use system restore as an op sec protocol. I run system restore after every internet session. That way I never need to wonder about whether or not I've hit a trojan site. Macrium's 30 min does not sound bad, but since I'm using system restore 2-3 times per day (i.e., at stopping points, rest breaks, etc.) it doesn't take any time at all. Remember that Win 7's system restore is faster than 10's. My op sec protocol does not work in newer versions of windows, because system restore was never made reliable after Win 7. It sort of makes sense, Microsoft de-prioritized consumer products after 2014. That's why in the 10 years of Win 10 they never bothered to make system restore reliable.
I also use Macrium Reflect version 8, and a full restore of my C Drive takes less than 5 minutes (163 GB data - 930GB total) from an internal PCIe 4x4 SSD (CPU 9950X), so a lot of the backup and restore time will depend on the speed of your CPU and backup drives.