Windows 10 1803 Home soon to become unsupported.

The_Fat_Controller

Watch out, the update turned off System Restore and deleted all the previous restore points.

donnac2558

My update only popped up last weekend even though it was released back in May for many.


I did it on Sunday morning went through no problem

Neil_Jones

The_Fat_Controller wrote: »

Watch out, the update turned off System Restore and deleted all the previous restore points.

System Restore is off by default in Windows 10.
The only reason it's on in the first place was if you upgraded from Windows 7.

poppellerant

As always with major updates like these, you should perform a full backup to avoid the risks of any potential data loss.

grumpycrab

Neil_Jones wrote: »

System Restore is off by default in Windows 10.

Any idea why? It's quite a useful "go back in time" utility.

Neil_Jones

grumpycrab wrote: »

Any idea why? It's quite a useful "go back in time" utility.

Presumably it might be to do with the proliferation of 32Gb "drives" in the smaller laptops. System Restore used to allocate 10% of the drive IIRC and on those that's a significant chunk of the available space when you consider Windows takes up half the available space on its own.

[Deleted User]

Damn, could have sworn I had automatic updates on only to find I'm still on 1809.

The_Fat_Controller

My laptop is W10 out of the box and 4 months old.

I turned on System Restore when I got it.

The update last week turned it off.

JJ_Egan

Essentially to SR a different OS build that may well have bits missing .
Update then turn on system restore .

DoaM

I checked my laptop yesterday (after reading this thread). I have 1903 yet SR was still turned On for my C drive ... however the allocated disk space for restore points was 0%, so effectively it was Off.