Well yes, I was thinking about this a bit, if there could be a way to modify sfc itself to not recognize the modifications by replacing the backup ones with the stable-modded ones. Ofcourse clonezilla will be a big part of the testing process - but shouldn't be a problem, the test partition is like 30GBs and that gets compressed down, I have 3 TBs of still free space so that's not a problem. But I guess yeah I didn't thought about the volume of these checkpoints ... indeed this will be one of the downsides I guess, I'll just use gzip compression and it should still reduce size by 30% imo. But I usually don't do things that break the system, so In my win7 days I usually didn't go that deep to break stuff, I didn't need to use these functions, ofcourse in the Win10 testing there's no point trying to fix it the old fashion way since it's practically useless and all the analysis and log data I have 2 USB3 sticks of 32GB and 16GB to save onto, that'll go fast, I think clonezilla solution will bypass all of these tricky situations.
Heh I didn't know this to be a surprise, ever since I'm on windows 7 (3 diff installs and 2 new PCs) I probably updated like twice, when I enabled manually and ran through some of the stuff, first time I did it it caused some problems, second time it was ok, but it was only a few updates the critical ones. I really never updated at all, I updated when I reinstall, and, you can see it happened 3 times since Win7 got out. Right now I'm still running the Win7 version from March 2013. That's why I kind of wish they churn out those updates so I start going at it, you know, it would be frustrating to take a version start doing it, you get it half done, you get rid of updates, but then a month later there's a big update that adds and fixes some important stuff that's on the good side, I would throw time away there, that old version would then not be optimal for future use in practise, it's kind of hard from now to tell since they didn't make up their mind around if there's going to be new Win or what, not sure if SP2 or SP3 will come for Win10 - I was disappointed there was no SP2 for Win7.
Easy way to use old Personalization & Color and Appearance Control Panel in/from desktop: Code: 1.Make New shortcut on desktop 2.Type the location of the item: Control Color 3.Type a name for this shortcut: Color and Appearance NOTES: To use Personalization / Open Color and Appearance.lnk / Click on Personalization in the address bar. Want to go back to Color and Appearance, click the back button.