System Restore


dalchina said:
System Restore neither backs up, secures nor modifies personal data.

If you looked at the file type list via the link I gave you, you could have confirmed that.

Google would also have informed you of that. Try searching thus:
View attachment 173280

The one type of personal file that could be caught would be script files where the file type is in the list I indicated.
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I already have robocopy/powershell script for backup files. Just wanted to check it's not double work :)
 

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It only restores certain things from the shadowcopy. If you want anything else out of the shadowcopy you can fish them out yourself as described in my previous post.

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Stigg said:
When is the last time you used System Restore?
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Bree said:
There was a time in Windows 10 with version 1803 when system restore would routinely fail. Remember this one? System Restore Failure AppxStaging 0x80070005 - Windows 10 Help Forums. I have relied on Macrium Reflect since then.

However, there have been a couple of times when it was more appropriate to try system restore than using a Macrium image
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Stigg said:
Does anyone still use System Restore?
Was it a successful restoration?
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Today was one of those (very) rare occasions when a System Restore was more appropriate than restoring a Reflect system image.

I had forgotten just how excruciatingly slow it was (paint dries quicker) but yes, it was completely successful.

1780579054081.webp
 

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    My SYSTEM FIVE is a Dell Latitude 3190 2-in-1, Pentium Silver N5030, 8GB RAM, 1TB NVMe ssd, supported device running Windows 11 Pro, plus Insider Beta, Dev, and Canary builds (and a few others) as a native boot .vhdx.

    My SYSTEM SIX is a Dell Latitude 5550, Core Ultra 7 165H, 64GB RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, supported device, Windows 11 Pro 24H2, Hyper-V host machine. Updated to 25H2 on 30th September 2025.

    My SYSTEM SEVEN is a Lenovo Thinkpad T580, Intel Core i7-8650U, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD + 2nd 512GB NVMe SSD, a supported device for Windows 11. This is my current general purpose 'main machine'. The installed Windows 11 Home from my System One has been migrated to this machine.
I have some paint that dries almost as fast as completing a System Restore!
 

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dalchina said:
I have some paint that dries almost as fast as completing a System Restore!
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Quite possibly - I stopped watching after an hour..... :sleep:
 

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    Feature Update to 23H2 by manually installing the Enablement Package.
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    Upgraded to 25H2 by Enablement Package.

    Also running Insider Dev, and Canary builds and Windows 10 as native boot .vhdx.
  • My SYSTEM THREE is a Dell Latitude 5410, i7-10610U, 32GB RAM, 512GB NVMe ssd, supported device running Windows 11 Pro.

    My SYSTEM FOUR is a 2-in-1 convertible Lenovo Yoga 11e 20DA, Celeron N2930, 8GB RAM, 256GB ssd. Unsupported device: currently running Win10 Pro, plus Win11 Pro RTM and Insider Dev, Beta, and RP 24H2 as native boot vhdx.

    My SYSTEM FIVE is a Dell Latitude 3190 2-in-1, Pentium Silver N5030, 8GB RAM, 1TB NVMe ssd, supported device running Windows 11 Pro, plus Insider Beta, Dev, and Canary builds (and a few others) as a native boot .vhdx.

    My SYSTEM SIX is a Dell Latitude 5550, Core Ultra 7 165H, 64GB RAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, supported device, Windows 11 Pro 24H2, Hyper-V host machine. Updated to 25H2 on 30th September 2025.

    My SYSTEM SEVEN is a Lenovo Thinkpad T580, Intel Core i7-8650U, 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe SSD + 2nd 512GB NVMe SSD, a supported device for Windows 11. This is my current general purpose 'main machine'. The installed Windows 11 Home from my System One has been migrated to this machine.
SIW2 said:
In the shadowcopy.

you can easily test .

create a text file on your desktop

create a restore point

delete the text file from your desktop.

look in the shadowcopy for it.

to see the contents of your shadowcopies and copy stuff out you can either link to them with a simple batch file

or an easy to use litle portable program is very handy

ShadowCopyView - Shadow copy viewer for Windows 10/8/7/Vista

Simple tool for Windows 10/8/7/Vista that lists the snapshots of your hard drive created by the Volume Shadow Copy service of Windows
www.nirsoft.net

for example

View attachment 173288
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What do you mean with: "to see the contents of your shadowcopies and copy stuff out you can either link to them with a simple batch file"?
 

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to see the contents of your shadowcopies and copy stuff out you can either link to them with a simple batch file

or an easy to use litle portable program is very handy
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which part do you not understand?
 

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Something like
Batch: 
xcopy "\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy12\file.txt" "D:\Backup" /H /R /K /O /X
 

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I've noticed something odd happening with my System Restore settings lately.
Max Usage keeps dropping back to 2%. I adjust it back to 10%, but after a day or two when I go to check, it's back to 2% again, which prevents some restore points.
 

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Stigg said:
I've noticed something odd happening with my System Restore settings lately.
Max Usage keeps dropping back to 2%. I adjust it back to 10%, but after a day or two when I go to check, it's back to 2% again, which prevents some restore points.
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try setting it via reg

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg

If it still reverts, you can set that as a scheduled task to reset it at whatever interval you want.

You could also do it with vssadmin

Code: 
vssadmin list shadowstorage

Code: 
vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=X: /On=X: /MaxSize=NGB

Replace X with drive letter of OS

Replace N with the number of GBs to use for system restore
 

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Stigg said:
I've noticed something odd happening with my System Restore settings lately.
Max Usage keeps dropping back to 2%. I adjust it back to 10%, but after a day or two when I go to check, it's back to 2% again, which prevents some restore points.
Click to expand...

Perhaps consider:
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Bree said:
Today was one of those (very) rare occasions when a System Restore was more appropriate than restoring a Reflect system image.

I had forgotten just how excruciatingly slow it was (paint dries quicker) but yes, it was completely successful.

View attachment 173374
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If you boot into Safe Mode, and then run System, Restore it works far quicker than running it from within Windoiws
 

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