Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
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Re: Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
#2This sort of thinking might have been understandable back during the '90's. However, today, people have plenty of free space on their hard disk. The track record of Windows 10 has been so poor lately that it's surprising that MS got so overconfident that they decided that they didn't need safeguards like this any longer.
Re: Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
#3This sort of thinking might have been understandable back during the '90's. However, today, people have plenty of free space on their hard disk. The track record of Windows 10 has been so poor lately that it's surprising that MS got so overconfident that they decided that they didn't need safeguards like this any longer.
Meanwhile Microsoft steals 7GB for "reserved storage" just in case they happen to have a giant update to install without your consent. "we disabled registry backups and made the dialog box lie to the user to save storage space" is a nauseatingly transparent lie.
Re: Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
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Re: Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
#550-100MB seems like a miniscule amount of space to warrant something like this.
My WinSxS folder alone is almost 10GB. If they wanted to save space, even a modest improvement in managing updates would yield space saving results orders of magnitude greater than this.
Re: Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
#6I'm still on Windows 7 on a 2012 desktop. There's no reason for me to change. I've yet to run into any situation that has required me to upgrade. Since the world is generally web-first, the only thing that matters is Chrome and Firefox. Even running 4K video just required a codec upgrade as opposed to CPU upgrade.
Yes there are security concerns but I'm pretty vigilant. I haven't run a virus scanner in 15 years, I'm just extremely paranoid over what I click on and which sites I visit. I run an ad-blocker and pi-hole to decrease any attack vectors. If attacks like spear-phishing become a lot more prevalent and much harder to detect then maybe I'll have to upgrade to keep up with security patches but until then I'm keeping status quo with a lot of backups.
Re: Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
#7I'm still on Windows 7 on a 2012 desktop. There's no reason for me to change. I've yet to run into any situation that has required me to upgrade. Since the world is generally web-first, the only thing that matters is Chrome and Firefox. Even running 4K video just required a codec upgrade as opposed to CPU upgrade. Yes there are security concerns but I'm pretty vigilant. I haven't run a virus scanner in 15 years, I'm…
> I haven't run a virus scanner in 15 years,
Re: Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
#8> The system registry is no longer backed up to the RegBack folder starting in Windows 10 version 1803
> This change is by design, and is intended to help reduce the overall disk footprint size of Windows. To recover a system with a corrupt registry hive, Microsoft recommends that you use a system restore point.
> If you have to use the legacy backup behavior, you can re-enable it by configuring the following registry entry, and then restarting the computer: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Configuration Manager\EnablePeriodicBackup Type: REG_DWORD Value: 1
The issue being not that they stopped doing it but that they failed to properly communicate it to the users.
Re: Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
#950-100MB seems like a miniscule amount of space to warrant something like this. My WinSxS folder alone is almost 10GB. If they wanted to save space, even a modest improvement in managing updates would yield space saving results orders of magnitude greater than this.
Between the traditional Disk Cleanup and a quick DISM cleanup (which should already be running as a scheduled task) you can get pretty good results on any Windows 8.1/2012R2 and above:
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
Re: Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10
#1050-100MB seems like a miniscule amount of space to warrant something like this. My WinSxS folder alone is almost 10GB. If they wanted to save space, even a modest improvement in managing updates would yield space saving results orders of magnitude greater than this.
Between the traditional Disk Cleanup and a quick DISM cleanup (which should already be running as a scheduled task) you can get pretty good results on any Windows 8.1/2012R2 and above: Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
> quick DISM cleanup (which should already be running as a scheduled task)
Is this a recommendation/suggestion of yours, or a default state?