Microsoft should be totally ashamed - W10 uninvited massive 2 hour update is CR#P

agarnett

Sorry John Gray, but if you had been around MSE long enough you'd realise that attempts to bully MSE into banning users whose views and contributions you simply find inconvenient won't work.

I am sorry if it makes your day job more difficult when there is any head of steam on MSE that causes more than one of your users daily to call your corporate W10 implementation a steaming pile of do-do too, but that's an occupational hazard if you choose IT as a career and have hitched your wagon to Microsoft.

Just keep reading your Ed Bott - it'll perhaps help you cope - and the salary and bonus also helps, I am sure

Fightsback

John_Gray wrote: »

There are several possibilities, at least some of which are:Perhaps there should be a poll?

May I add a 4th option to that poll ?

AndyPix

agarnett wrote: »

simply that I am highly skilled with computers .

That's the point though isn't it ?
You're not highly skilled, as you have demonstrated with your bizzarre questions and comments.


A person "highly skilled with computers" would not have made most of the ridiculous statements that you have done on this thread.


You have yet to demostrate that you are skilled in the subject atall, highly or otherwise.


It has taken numerous posters, who dont claim to be highly skilled, to point out some most basic points to your good self.


Fair play to you though - you make a decent troll

agarnett

Oh dear, AndyPix.

Of course I am highly skilled with computers

Where is your humour? Or did I detect the slightest twitch of a smile in your last?

No need to answer that - I know sense of humour failures are not necessarily your fault - some people are simply wired that way, especially those who gravitate into IT departments.

I (my good self) freely give the field of corporate computing over to the pros, of which you may be one. But in the field of home computing on a moneysaving budget, getting things to run smoothly can be a very highly skilled undertaking indeed with so many unexpected variables to contend with

Take your Restore Previous Versions checkbox, for example - I simply don't have one so, with all the wisdom I can muster on a Sunday morning, I have to decide on the fly how that limits my options. It takes years of skill and experience to make decisions against the glorious hindsight of pros who know better. I am a past master at it

Of course, I could never hold a candle to the real experts, but "highly skilled" ain't an untrue claim

PS What's gone wrong with British Airways online system today? Are they W10 Pros there?

AndyPix

Ok , so moving forward, get yourself a cheap external hard drive and arrange some kind of backup routine.
Windows backup works just fine. Or Acronis True Image is excellent if you want to restore from bare metal (and want to pay)


Having a backup in place will save you the obvious stress that this situation has caused you this time.

agarnett

Already got several loose hard drives and caddies - bought a couple of decent 350GB WD shockproof drives in Beijing 5 years ago - still going strong having been in and out of previous laptops (my last was a Medion from Aldi which I could almost strip down in my sleep by the time I received this Asus as a birthday present)!

You do also seem anxious to reinforce the fact of my obvious Sunday morning stress - is that actually worth anything at the Microsoft complaints department, or shall we move on from that too?

So then ... You really really really want me to use VSS configured to store shadow copies on external drives, don't you? Will one of the 350GB drives connected by USB serve for the purpose? Can I shadow both the OS partition and my document storage / Apps (Program Files) partition to the same external drive?

I'm game if you are

Where do we start?

Do I need to reformat the external drive first ? The Properties tab on my W10 drive says the partitions on my Asus are NTFS, but we know better, don't we?

stockton_2

For the youngsters among you. Alf Garnett was the irreverent mouthy cockney way back in the 60's whose football team West Ham won the 1966 world cup and who referred to his son in law as a "Scouse Git and his missus as a "silly old moo!".

I should not take all this too seriously.

AndyPix

agarnett wrote: »

You do also seem anxious to reinforce the fact of my obvious Sunday morning stress - is that actually worth anything at the Microsoft complaints department, or shall we move on from that too?

Iv no idea what you mean by this

agarnett wrote: »

So then ... You really really really want me to use VSS configured to store shadow copies on external drives, don't you??

No
You use VSS as a handy way to roll back files or folders to earlier dates.
And for system restore
It is usually kept on your main drive, although you can change this.


What i am suggesting you do (although "really really" is a bit strong), is sort yourself out a backup plan.
Using either windows backup like i said, or a 3rd party software such as Acronis true image.
You would use that software to take a backup of you machine

agarnett wrote: »

I'm game if you are

Where do we start?

Im not - You start by using google to fill in the gaps in your skills and come back with any questions if you get stuck

agarnett wrote: »

Do I need to reformat the external drive first ?

Is that a real question ?

agarnett wrote: »

The Properties tab on my W10 drive says the partitions on my Asus are NTFS, but we know better, don't we?

My head just exploded

agarnett

Oh ... sounds messy

I guess that's torn it ... I can perhaps leave my 2010 Beijing Western Digital knockoffs in the drawer a bit longer, and just let VSS do whatever it fancies where it fancies and not worry my pretty head further.

I did just experience a fleeting image there of AndyPix as Basil Fawlty trying to get a point across, with me as a combination of the Major, Bernard Cribbins and Manuel all morphed into one (someone's snatched me menu right out of my grasp, I still haven't found the table-tennis table for use in emergencies, and what's more, I think I have been both whacked with a spoon and poked in the eye)

Where's Sybil when you need her?

AndyPix

Look here :-
https://www.backblaze.com/pc-backup.html


Scroll down to the bit entitled "How to Back Your Files to an External Hard Drive or Network Location Using Windows Backup"


It's really quite straightforward


As for VSS, right click a file or folder and choose "restore previous versions". Try it - simplicity its'self