Only one restore point?

Question

My Windows 10 office desktop has only one restore point and it's from a windows update this week. I have restore permitted to use 10% of my hard drive which is 23 gigs. I haven't had to restore in a long time, but in the olden days of XP, I'd have 5 or 10 restore points going back at any given point. Why do I only have one now? This is a problem, as I don't think one restore point offers me much security if it's too recent to precede whatever problem I'm having.

Answer 1

Hi Allan, major Windows 10 Updates will delete all your Restore Points. This is not widely known and it is done to ensure system integrity.

Major Windows Updates are basically a re-write of the operating system and a system restore after that would cause old and new system files to be mixed, leading to an unstable system . . .

Answer 2

Hi Allan, I absolutely agree with you, if you are having problem(s) after that update

You can try rolling back to 1709 . . .

Start your PC, just as Windows attempts to load (spinning dots), press and hold Power Button for 5 - 10 seconds to perform a Hard Shut Down

Do this twice

On the third start Windows will boot into the Recovery Environment and from there you can access System Repair, Safe Mode, Command Prompt . . . etc.

Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Option - Revert to previous build of Windows

Answer 3

Well, it helps explain, but it likely doesn't help me with my problem which is that a problem that arose before my computer unilaterally decided to do the windows update may now not be fixable.

Answer 4

Unfortunately whenever there’s a major version update it always removed the previous version’s restore points.

Even cumulative updates may do this if they contain major fixes.

I hope this helps.