oldie, but a goodie. Thank's PaulD for the reminder Code: wbAdmin start backup -backupTarget:X: -include:C: -allCritical can be used in CMD prompt and in PowerShell backup daily, faster than most backup solutions and when you boot to Windows media, you can pick the backup image for restoring your system. chang e-backupTarget:X: to your drive you want to save it at e.g. D: E: or F: for most. Will backup EFI/Recovery/C:System partitions This example saved to an E: drive and will make a folder called "WindowsImageBackup" Code: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10240] (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\WINDOWS\system32>wbAdmin start backup -backupTarget:E: -include:C: -allCritical wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool (C) Copyright 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Retrieving volume information... This will back up (EFI System Partition),(C:),(\\?\Volume{38d6c52d-0fae-4117-bab7-4d9da321602a}\) to E:. Do you want to start the backup operation? [Y] Yes [N] No Y The backup operation to E: is starting. Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup... Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup... Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup... Creating a backup of volume (EFI System Partition) (99.00 MB), copied (0%). Creating a backup of volume (EFI System Partition) (99.00 MB), copied (100%). The backup of volume (EFI System Partition) (99.00 MB) completed successfully. Creating a backup of volume (C:), copied (1%). Creating a backup of volume (C:), copied (3%). -------SNIP!!!!!----------------------------------- Creating a backup of volume (C:), copied (99%). Creating a backup of volume (C:), copied (100%). The backup of volume (C:) completed successfully. Creating a backup of volume (450.00 MB), copied (8%). The backup of volume (450.00 MB) completed successfully. Summary of the backup operation: ------------------ The backup operation successfully completed. The backup of volume (EFI System Partition) (99.00 MB) completed successfully. The backup of volume (C:) completed successfully. The backup of volume (450.00 MB) completed successfully. Log of files successfully backed up: C:\WINDOWS\Logs\WindowsBackup\Backup-18-08-2015_14-40-55.log C:\WINDOWS\system32>
let me start up a VM and I will get screenshots to give you a complete run down of how to restore from this backup method. Will be a bit.
Thanks a lot EFA11 I am extremely grateful that you posted a detailed instruction about the entire process. You are awesome
Does anyone know how to fix desktop icons moving bug. Icons won't stay in place after I refresh desktop, restart explorer or restart pc. I don't have viruses, I scanned it. Also same problem in safe mode, or when create new profile. Also their size change back to medium after I restart explorer or pc. Auto arrange is not checked and I also unchecked Allow themes to change desktop icons. Thanks in advance For the record I'm using build 10240, upgraded from build 10130
I only have this precise problem on a VM installation with Windows 8.1 Enterprise. In total I have 2 VM's with Win 10 Insider Preview, Win 10 Enterprise N Ltsb, 1 Windows 10 Pro clean install, 1 Windows 10 Pro upgraded, all on the same machine. All Icons are staying in place. I use Desktop Ok on the Enterprise version. Still haven't figured out why the icons are not staying in place after a refresh, restart.
Well I am now forced to use stardock fences, although it restores icons in position when using fences it still can't restore their size. Yes I know that in can be fixed by reinstall, but I'm searching a way to do it without reinstalling whole system. Also I'm having RTM build quite a while and recently started to act strangely. System file checker and Component restore shows no errors. And now I'm really out of ideas.
so im running enterprise ltsb and turned off automatic updates in gpedit, with a registry entry and also with OO ShutUp. it was working well and no automatic updates were installed. so now i just started my pc and checked event viewer and saw "windows is installing updates" right after booting. it wasn't anything special just some windows defender update so it's not that bad. but it could have been a huge update or something which will break my pc or who knows. that is why i disabled automatic updates and i still receive them what is this. i want to install them when i think it's the right time to do it. started OO ShutUp again because in gpedit everything was still like i set it up. but in OO i saw a red "!" behind automatic updates and also it was diasbled again!!! so i enabled it again but it still got this red "!" behind it. so can i check every day now if it's really disabled? this will happen one more time and im gone from this piece of s**t. it's enough. there was no update or anyhing yesterday or this morning. so why did it turn back on from itself???
I wish there was a command to enable System Restore. It is disabled by default on 10, when the disc size is too small. Well I have found one, but the size still has to be set up manually, so it is pointless without it. This does not work: vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /Maxsize=3GB reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SPP\Clients" /v " {09F7EDC5-294E-4180-AF6A-FB0E6A0E9513}" /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d 1 EDIT: Nevermind, it works, I was just trying to set up the size using percentage, which fails.
Disabling WU is a bad option, it is best to set it to Notify, updates will never download and install until you click on it. When WU is disabled, it will download and install updates, once something will initiate check for updates, probably Windows Defender? reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU" /v "NoAutoUpdate" /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU" /v "AUOptions" /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f
My own two cents, if you're using alternative start menu, Tile data model server, responsible for start menu and updating over the net tiles there. You can disable it using autostarts windows will boot up and desktop may not work, restart again ctrl alt del and will boot up perfectly. Push notification service found in services responsible for messages about security you can't stop normally, using autostarts you can. Blocking those two my win uses about 100mb less ram Side effect, win will boot up a bit longer