Microsoft: _"We removed automatic registry backups to save storage space."_ Literally everyone: _"If you're concerned about space, remove the extra bloatware and telemetry services. Pretty sure that junk takes up WAY more storage."_ Microsoft: *_"NOOOOO!!! ThOsE aRe EsSeNtIaL!!!"_*
@RicardoSantos-oz3uj
Жыл бұрын
BTW: Where does the telemetry bullshit get stored?
@DJdoppIer
Жыл бұрын
@@RicardoSantos-oz3uj It gets sent to Microsoft's servers where they store it and use it to send you ads and shit. One way to limit this is to type "services" in your search bar, click on the services application, and scroll down to "Connected User Experiences and Telemetry", double-click it, and change startup type to "Disabled" and then services status to "Stop", then hit "Apply" and "Okay". This can actually also help speed up older computers with mechanical hard drives because they're not constantly sending stuff to Microsoft.
@cronostvg
Жыл бұрын
Differing point of view.
@jerelull9629
Жыл бұрын
They are "essential" ONLY to MicroS**t. !@#$%&^* pirates & thieves.
@snsm6730
Жыл бұрын
@@DJdoppIer Correct....unfortunately I hear rumors regularly that Microshaft has gone in and changed settings, They also legally have power to REMOVE software from YOUR system per the End User license fine print. How can they do this? Only if they are monitoring the state of your system....telemetry. I am especially amazed Businesses are using Win10 still....you are digitally naked in the street essentially...
@steeviebops
Жыл бұрын
I used to work in an IT workshop in an MSP (managed services provider, IT services for small business). I had both of these added to a post-setup script on our deployment server to make sure that it was enabled on anything we deployed. It saved our bacon many times. One thing to note is that if you have BitLocker disk encryption enabled, you'll be prompted for the 48-digit recovery key when you use the F8 menu.
@Ifalvarado
Жыл бұрын
using Sccm? is there a how to?
@stuartgibson9755
Жыл бұрын
My work has the same philosophy as MS, giving us "improvements" to the software that we never asked for, making our job even harder to do than it was before.
@MistyBurch-ww4ws
Жыл бұрын
At least you are getting paid for the software you never asked for. Lol
@TechnoMinarchist
Жыл бұрын
It's what happens when HR takes over.
@gcraig0001
Жыл бұрын
I re-enabled System Restore a long time ago (WIN 10), but I've become very wary of Microsoft and choose to not place much faith in it working when I actually need it. My fallback plan doesn't involve reinstalling Windows and all the work that entails, I just do a monthly system disk image backup which is stored on a separate drive. If the worst happens, I just use my boot disk or USB key to start up and then install the system disk backup. At worst I lose a month of application data (not really a full month, I also do a weekly backup of User Data). I always do a lot of customization of my operating system, so the "install a fresh version of Windows and start over" is a non-starter for me. Frequent backups are my friends, and storage space is cheap these days.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
For me doing system images is just not efficient. I have way too many computers. I would have to image 10+ drives. It wouldn't be worth it.
@STCatchMeTRACjRo
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU thee is a tool to extract the folders and files of system restore point. So you can have on 1 removable driver with all your computers system restore points (extracted).
@francolittlewilliam
Жыл бұрын
Virus System Restore 😂😂
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
@@STCatchMeTRACjRo I would be interested in that tool if you know the name of it.
@Albert_206
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU guess ur not the only one interested in that tool :-:)
@angieandretti
Жыл бұрын
In my experience, Microsoft's "system restore" hasn't been reliable since Windows 7. Even in 8 and 8.1, it would almost always fail.
@repairman2be250
Жыл бұрын
That is my experience as well. The many times I tried on different computers it only ever worked one single time.
@DS6Prophet
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, honestly, I've spent the past couple of months learning how to tweak the living fk out of Windows 10/11 & disable all their BS. Got to say, I am very pleased with all my achievements, in big part because you inspired me to get into learning my system in a deeper level of understanding, so it won't blue screen me 24/7! Thank you for your amazing work! 😊😊
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Glad my videos have helped.
@kyanoang3l0_old
Жыл бұрын
Ditto.
@gex581990
Жыл бұрын
Same
@josephmeholick1300
Жыл бұрын
system restore dosen't cover most of the registry period. i only had one or two times it actually corrected a problem.
@MrHans818
Жыл бұрын
@@josephmeholick1300 With my wife's laptop she accidentally. She plays games on FB that will screw things up. It usually puts some kind of malware on her computer and have to use system restore to fix her problem. Telling her to stop playing these game is like talking to the wall. So like every six months ago I have to use system restore to solve the problem. Thankfully she has an older windows that still have this feature that I don't have to fix these settings.
@michaelprox1172
Жыл бұрын
shame on you microsoft
@PhilipMarcYT
Жыл бұрын
It's just part of that wonderful Windows 11 experience. 😆
@StaceyAyodele
Жыл бұрын
Show them the price of their sins. SWITCH to a Mac. Provided you don't need any Windows only programs, I'm sure you'll find macOS much more accommodating to letting you use your computer how YOU want.
@godspeed2145
Жыл бұрын
Bill Gates wants mandatory vaccines, I don't doubt their malice
@DustinDustin00
Жыл бұрын
I gotta wonder if this was Microsoft caving to the Linux crowd screaming "Windows takes up too much drive space!"
@virtual-adam
Жыл бұрын
@@StaceyAyodele The Mac OS is nice, but the hardware is an anti-consumer nightmare.
@tendosingh5682
Жыл бұрын
Love that you summarized the steps and made it easily visible.
@peterhaas93
Жыл бұрын
Great video! A bit confusing is that you put "Command For Task manager" in the description although you meant "Command For Task Scheduler"
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
My bad, sorry about that. It's copied and pasted directly from my notes. I didn't notice it was wrong. I'll fix it. Thanks for pointing it out.
@godfist314
Жыл бұрын
I have found System restore to be unreliable as far as fixing problems after using restore points. Buying additional 1TB Nmve drives for clone backups is super cheap now. Cloning your boot drive is the most reliable way to "system restore" that i've found. There's no 100% foolproof method but that's the best one I've got. Obviously takes much longer than software based methods but that's what works the best for me :)
@shirkedance
Жыл бұрын
System restore is helpful only 10% times, But registry backup is helpful 40% of times And i also use Windows file backup , which is helpful 80% of times .. at least for me and my clients .
@SpaceCadet4Jesus
Жыл бұрын
Agree, an image of the boot drive should have been saved. 15-20 minutes would save a whole lot of trouble. Some people just don't learn and apply.
@chrissanburn1510
Жыл бұрын
Great tutorial, thanks so much for posting it! I haven't read through all the comments, so maybe someone else posted this already. I have 100 computers to enable on my windows domain so I turned your tips into a GPO (Group Policy Object): Created a new GPO, linked to the OU with my computer objects, named it Enable Automatic Registry Backup Right clicked the new GPO and chose Edit Expand Computer Configuration->Preferences->Windows Settings->Registry Added the two keys for EnablePeriodicBackup and BackupCount Expand Computer Configuration->Preferences->Control Panel Settings->Scheduled Tasks Right click on Scheduled Tasks and choose New->Scheduled Task (At least Windows 7) Setup the task as outlined in this tutorial. I also enabled the Setting tab option for Allow task to be run on demand.
@pootan517
Жыл бұрын
I remember falling into that boot loop rabbit hole several months ago. And the similar disappointments of not seeing any file size on regback and no restorepoints. Like you, I had to make a fresh install but was able to get most of my programs and all of my data using a combination of pctrans and laplink by connecting the bootlooped hard drive as an external drive. I really hate having to re-activate and fetch for all the keys most of my programs had or even worse, discontinued, so props for easus pctrans for saving me some time lol... But overall, it took a lot longer than it should have just because they disabled regback...
@P-G-77
Жыл бұрын
Very true... unfortunately. I've noticed a few things since the release of Windows 11, but then it seems even worse. Now the best thing to do is to... do it manually, maybe creating some timed scripts.
@dannyreneau8236
Жыл бұрын
Hi Rich, 1st off - Thank you for this video/tip! Very Useful and it will save my butt later I'm sure! I just want to say that I created Scheduled Task without going through the additional steps you took. I left the Custom Handler alone and just set all the other parameters of the task I switched the task from Run As "System" to Run As "Admin" account to run the task. After saving the task changes, I then Right-Clicked the task from the Task Scheduler and selected 'Run" and it worked perfectly! The files that were in the folder = [C:\Windows\System32\config\RegBack] went from 0 bytes to various Kilobytes sizes depending on the file. I will check that the files get updated on the interval(s) I have chosen for running this task, but I feel pretty confident it should run as scheduled. Hope you read this and try it for yourself!
@geoffreyvanpelt6147
Жыл бұрын
Great video! I would not be surprised if the disablement of those features is intended to encourage people to use a MS account on their PCs and more importantly, OneDrive backup subscriptions.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Good point!
@StaceyAyodele
Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't surprise me. Maybe that's why they removed Windows File History too (not that it was ever good enough for my use case when I used to run Windows). I'll never understand why Microsoft never came out with an app like macOS's Time Machine to make easy system backups and file recovery. I left Windows behind, I've gotten a Mac. And my sanity has been much better. Microsoft needs to do better, but again, I doubt they will when they can get recurring revenue with OneDrive subscriptions.
@markp2085
Жыл бұрын
I recently purchased Microsoft Office instead of 365, and now subscribe to get 100 gigs of Onedrive space for $29 a year instead of paying $80 a year for 365. I got my office professional for $29. I don't let onedrive do any sort of auto backups. Right now I am only using 32 gigs. I use it strictly as a secondary backup for important files. I do have a task scheduled to backup my boot drive (C), and my program files drive (D) to run on the first Sunday of the month to an external drive. I have an 8-terabyte portable drive I use strictly for this purpose. I am a blogger, so I back up my system, website, images, business files, etc to that additional drive. I always keep several months worth of backups because, in my experience, backups will sometimes fail for various reasons. Just like my website. The database gets backed up twice a day and I keep 2 months' worth of backups of those. Imagery gets backed up once a week. Why do I do this? In case it gets hacked with ransomware. I can always go back to an older backup if I catch the problem within a 2-month time frame.
@blindtechworld
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they're really pushing us to use a Microsoft account. Recently, I was setting up a laptop And it requires an internet connection. Then, I have to turn on my phone's hotspot and connect to it to set it up.
@StaceyAyodele
Жыл бұрын
@@blindtechworld Again, glad I went to Mac. It doesn't mandate an internet connection to setup your account. You just create a local account and skip iCloud setup if you don't want it. Apple gives you more control over your computer than Microsoft does. Might have issues on Right To Repair, but at least you control what you can and can't do with the software....unlike the BS Microsoft is pulling. macOS FTW!
@malcolmbrady1958
Жыл бұрын
Hey !!! Thanks for taking the time to post this video I carried out your instructions regarding the Automatic Registry Backup , and am pleased to inform you I now have Auto Reg Backup. Just want to say System Restore has saved me quite a number of times, usually after Microsoft updates have been installed. Thanks Again !! Malc U.K.
@michaeljavert4635
Жыл бұрын
I noticed this every time I ran into a problem with Windows 10. Despite all System Restores, none of them actually worked unless I went into safe mode. Then Microsoft made that harder to get into Apparently they decided that pressing F8 while the computer was booting just made it too easy. Then if your computer didn't start up to begin with, you couldn't get to the option to reboot in safe mode and I don't even see that anymore. When I rise to power, all this mishigas will end and Windows will be the BEST OS. And the versions will be Windows (Current Year) None of this weird H1N1 malarkey that sound like flu strains. The only things Microsoft consistently does is bloating their operating system, bombarding users that don't know better with ads, and making simple things difficult and spying on their customers. Ah, I made this comment before I got to your "Bonus" I will try that. Awesome !
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
There's an alternative trick to get into safe mode without F8 enabled. When the system is booting hold down the power button to kill the system 3 times. This will force Windows 10 into recovery mode and from there you can go to advanced startup and then choose safe mode from the menu.
@michaeljavert4635
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU Thank you.
@IlSqueak
Жыл бұрын
I'd never heard of mishigas before. Delighted to find it was a real word and overjoyed to find out it meant just what I thought it should. It has now entered my vocabulary as my new favourite word
@iansimpson27
Жыл бұрын
The cynic in me thinks Microsoft is doing this because when you reset Windows, your custom settings will be reset back to Microsoft defaults that are optimised for Microsoft's revenue streams (e.g. Microsoft Edge/Bing as the default browser and search engine). For users with local accounts, they can also take another opportunity to push logging in with a Microsoft account. Microsoft doesn't get that benefit when you repair a PC with System Restore or Automatic Registry Backups.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
You know, you might be on to something. I hadn't even thought about that. This would also solve the problem of technicians debloating a system for a customer. If the customer resets it all the bloat comes back.
@stage6fan475
Жыл бұрын
That is an interesting thought. The cynic in me thought they were doing it because they'll need fewer Microsoft employees to support it. Reducing headcount is wall streets absolutely favorite thing to do.
@chrispac6264
Жыл бұрын
There're a couple of mistakes. at 13:55 you say click dstring value 32 Bit when you mean dword 32 bit. Apart from that this is brilliant. Thanks... Also, at 7:18 you say EnablePeriodicBackups with an S following it i.e. the plural. Whereas the green text you have on the screen is EnablePeriodicBackup singular. The singular seems to be correct. I hate to put junk in my registry, so I used the singular .
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Good catch.
@eafrancos
Жыл бұрын
Nice to have those features back, thank you! I had to connect a USB keyboard for F8 to work well.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Yes, that's possible. It's rare but some wireless keyboards don't work in the BIOS or during post. My wireless mouse is completely worthless in the BIOS on my main system. I have to plug a USB mouse in to edit the BIOS. It's pretty annoying.
@Buddy308
Жыл бұрын
Too many comments for this one to be seen, but this video was SO helpful that I'm forced to leave a thank you!
@aonodensetsu
Жыл бұрын
Windows 11 actually comes with System Restore enabled for the system disk, enabled it for my Home disk as well
@machdaddy6451
Жыл бұрын
This procedure has allowed me to fix so many computers that wouldn't boot.
@Yinzzy656
Жыл бұрын
Hey Rich, I just want to thank you. Im by no means a noob when it comes to Computers and Windows and any tech. I actually was thinking about contacting you to see if you had any advice regarding starting a business in computer repair. But anyway, your channel has been really helpful to me. So i just wanted to say thank you buddy. Youre a really good dude. 👍😀
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Glad my videos are helpful. I did a video a while back on starting a computer business. Here it is. kzitem.info/news/bejne/sqKQvHpspWhzhpw
@janeyjoseph1847
Жыл бұрын
I can so relate to this issue, as I have been fighting with my laptop for the last three days, so thank you so much for guiding me through the fixes I needed to get my files back and working properly.
@Tech-geeky
Жыл бұрын
As much as i hate the registry,, a massive blob of gunk.. MS will never kill it, because it would break compatibility too much, even those they have moves to self-contained apps, they must keep the registry for legacy reasons..but on the other hand if you know what your looking for, you can tweak to your harts content. Unfortunately that is not 90% of users because all we wanna do get "get our work done" .. With Microsoft making things harder and harder they force people to edit registry now just to to basic things that was once, a click of a mouse button. Thankfully, Microsoft doesn't hide it. They encourage it on their website, but a "warning" where as Apple just shakes their head.. and we all just follow like sheep.
@madmax2010ok
Жыл бұрын
Great tip. Unfortunately I had a non-recoverable situation when it seemed my Win10 system locked up and after I hit my reset switch...no more booting and system recovery did not work. So I have to re-install windows and re-install all the apps. At least all the files were still in my User directory. I do hate windows some times.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Make sure it wasn't hardware failure. Check the smart data on your hard drive.
@markusTegelane
Жыл бұрын
I had a problem where bcdedit was not recognized as a command. So, if you have the same issue, run this command: dir %windir% /b /s | findstr "bcdedit" This should list all paths where bcdedit exists. Just copy one with the .exe extensions (not .mui or .dl) to system32 with this command: copy "_Path of bcdedit.exe_" %windir%\System32 Then you should be able to use bcdedit like shown in the video.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
System32 should already be in your path. Glad you got it worked out, because that would have stopped many DOS commands from working.
@peewee3ie
Жыл бұрын
Love this one. I also have stopped auto windows updates as I often leave my pc on over night to render videos so it save time in the day time for me. I did it once and windows restarted the pc no mater what it was doing to install updates
@machdaddy6451
Жыл бұрын
I knew about everything, but adding that Task Sheduler entry. Thanks!
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped.
@machdaddy6451
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU Indeed
@clintongryke6887
Жыл бұрын
Really cool, well described and useful. Thank you so much!
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped.
@captainspire9094
Жыл бұрын
I remember that was the easiest way to fix Windows XP and lower with all the registry garbage it held on to. Also, it was just easier to reload the O/S than figure out where all the viruses were hiding. I guess Microsoft thinks this is a reinvention of an old idea that "worked," so they are returning to it.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
I remember there used to be a time where you had to reload your operating system once a year. I like the fact that you no longer have to do that. I have windows installs that are not only years old but had actually moved to new upgraded hardware without reloading. My Plex server is Windows 10 and has moved between three different systems without reloading. Still runs solid as a rock.
@chrisbaker8533
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU When did that stop being a thing? LOL But seriously, for the o.s., and for most users, i largely agree it's not really a necessity these days. For nuts like me, yeah, it's still a thing. I wind up with so much junk i don't use, it's just way more efficient to nuke and start over yearly than to try and make sure the ruddy things actually got uninstalled and didn't leave remnants.(bleeping autodesk and adobe).
@ahnilatedahnilated7703
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU This was from registry bloat and it becoming a massive mess. People don't make their programs cleanly remove their registry entries and their registry is incredibly inefficient.
@r13hd22
Жыл бұрын
Yes, lets reimplement the worst aspect of Windows XP that was fixed with later versions of Windows. Brilliant!
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
@@ahnilatedahnilated7703 I have never experienced a system with a registry that was so messed up it affected system performance. I know what you're talking about but I've never seen a negative impact from it. I highly recommend against tools that promise to clean registries up for this reason. I've seen those tools destroy systems far more then dirty registries.
@Obie327
Жыл бұрын
Great stuff CyberCPU Tech! Thanks for great tutorial video!
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@Mark-bn7lk
Жыл бұрын
Rich, Thank you for posting this detailed and insightful video. I tried the registry backup procedure on Windows 11 and got it to work although the menu selections are slightly different than what you detailed in Windows 10. Now my Reg Back folder is populated with files with various amounts of kilobits in them. The question I have now is how can we use this backup. Could you make a video showing how and under what circumstances we can make use of the Reg Back folder? Thanks for your hard work on these videos. They are a great service to many people out there.
@robertthrift5016
Жыл бұрын
Great tutorial. Glary Utilities has an easy-to-use registry backup and restore tool for the less technically minded, but it isn't automated.
@cholohd32
Жыл бұрын
I had a really obscure registry bug that plagued me for a whole month untill i found a manual edit solution. One of my early access games crashed & windows along with it. Upon bootup there somehow had become a near 2 second long delay of audio playback. Not that audio was out of sync but it was annoying not having any audio the first 2 seconds of a YT video for example. Had to manually mess around inside Realtek regedit setting to fix it because Window "repair" did nothing. Dont get me wrong i know its a "self inflicted" playing "test" state alpha, beta & early access software, but it also speaks volumes about how huge & unstable windows has become to the point where its simply easier to do a complete fresh reinstall than trying to troubleshoot.
@HayzerX
Жыл бұрын
Really nice tips, thank you!
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
You're so welcome!
@Käptn_Wirrbart
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your guides, sir. I've also experienced that the snapshots has been turned of. But instead the registry backup is still in place and working (Windows 11 Pro).
@minsin21
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, i just have not actually needed any of these in years but if i do at some point this would be a nasty suprise
@w.obrien8044
Жыл бұрын
Many Thanks for a very informative and easy to follow tutorial. I haven't updated the F8 feature yet, but the registary backup is working fine. Thanks again.
@StefanLypka
Жыл бұрын
After that last tweak, when I pressed F8 I just got the boot priority order but m Not the safe mode. I'm using a recent win 10 install on an old 2009 Asus rampage 2 extreme. It' probably is a bios tweak that I'm not aware of, or unupdartable bios that is causing this issue. I think your videos are brilliant and entertaining btw!
@geraldpaglucio4384
Жыл бұрын
I have been using Macrium Reflect to make a disk image of my computer. Over the years it has save me time and time again. No need for registry backups. Whenever I make any changes to my pc, which is often, I run a series of checks to make sure everything is ok - then I made a disk image. If I have any problem, like unable to boot into windows, I am able to use the startup menu which has the Macrium option, or a USB stick with the Macrium recovery on it. I can restore a 60GB system in about 5 minutes. I have used it scores of times and never had a problem restoring my pc.
@mhoffman30
Жыл бұрын
I use this program as well and it works great! I do a full backup image every two weeks and then an incremental backup every say set up automatically. The best part about it is that it gives you a Macrium rescue option on boot instead of going into booting windows. I don't trust Microsoft to backup anything properly in a way that it can actually be restored and working and I don't know that I ever will. I test my Macrium backups on a regular basis and they always work and usually take less then 10 mins to finish
@stevesummerlin2604
Жыл бұрын
Great find. Thanks. I added to all of my systems.
@TheEvolvingAudioNut
Жыл бұрын
Great information. Thanks. 👍 It appears that you forgot to put the various strings of text in the description for copy/paste.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Yes, sorry. I forgot. It's there now.
@kenshyura
Жыл бұрын
As a computer tech, you've saved my ass- sorry, my day.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Glad it's helpful.
@irving.t
Жыл бұрын
Hi, great video, thank you. I never use windows restore, i use more Macrium Ref****** for backups. Greetings from France.
@Tripillian
10 ай бұрын
It's seldom that I log into youtube (don't judge me) to offer comments, but your videos have been extremely helpful in setting up my Win11 PC so I can recover in the future. My PC got stuck in a boot-loop after a MS update hosed everything up. My PC (MSI Gaming PC) is only 4 months old and there was no way to recover it - it wouldn't even boot into Safe Mode. I used my backup Win7 PC to search for answers, but nothing worked. No restore point or Reg backup, no disk drive and Media Creation Tool failed on Win7. The restore function did get me back up and saved my personal files, but I had to start from the beginning with everything else. I think I went a little too aggressive in deleting things after recovery because my PC stopped rebooting altogether at one point. Safe Mode worked this time and I was able to recover certain things, but "sfc" and "dism" from another video of yours did not find any issues (go figure). I have watched several of your videos and I'm taking a more practical approach to setting up my PC as a result. Backing up only personal data is no longer my preference. Much THANKS to you and your videos and keep them coming!!!
@terryeyeguy
8 ай бұрын
You are UNBELIEVABLY FANTASTIC! I like the fact that you dummy it down for people like me that only know enough to be dangerous. THANK YOU!!
@mda5003
Жыл бұрын
I have actually just installed both Windows 10 and 11 (both are 22H2) on the same computer as a dual boot and both had System Restore turned on by default - I just had to set a percentage for the amount of space I wanted to reserve.
@rsearchtim
Жыл бұрын
Nice tip about the last known good as well as pointing out that you need to execute the scheduled task to get the reg backup started.
@lucian.x
Жыл бұрын
Ran into this year's ago, and tried to tell others, but got the cold shoulder in the idea, in which caused me major problems years ago
@BStott
Жыл бұрын
WoW! I just found my mysteriously used ~40GB of used up diskspace. Thank You! I am so thankful I found your video. When, I did tech stuff decades ago. I fully relied on Restore Points and restoring the Registry. And was annoyed that we were ALL - Microsofted. I wish I found your video about two days and then, 15 hours ago. I've been running out of disk space and couldn't find the reason. Nothing online tells about the restore points gobbling up tens of Gigs of disk space. No one pointed to restore points. And I'd been bent over and Microsofted into a stupor. I'd thought the restore points had been removed. Because, I'd needed one about a year ago. Now, memory returns and I had turned them on via registry - then. So, I'd given them about 3%, which equated to the ~40GB of mysteriously lost disk space. With MS tools I couldn't see what was using this lost disk space. It isn't shown anywhere. But, you and this video allowed me to find the settings - to see where ALL my mysterious Disk Real Estate had gone and I have now downsized the percent of disk space used. So, I get back about 20GB. THANKS!!!
@dabombinablemi6188
Жыл бұрын
Saw this video pop up in recommended, checked the status of system restore...and it was disabled. Even though I distinctly remember enabling it months ago on all drives (which all have well over 10% free space).
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
I still don't know for sure why Microsoft disables it on some systems and not others. It's bizarre.
@lorrewatkins5925
Жыл бұрын
Thera are feature like that (Enable boot options) ,or (Advanced boot options) that one can enable in (Winaero tweaker) with just a click which is pretty cool !
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Yes, winaero tweaker is essentially just a registry editor. You can click on the link in each setting and it shows you how to change the setting manually. It's a great program, I did a whole video on it a while back.
@theultramage
Жыл бұрын
I made this discovery not too long ago. Sysinternals Autoruns wiped out the whole printer registry when I tried removing a nonexistent print monitor, and I suddenly had the need to mount a backup copy of Config/SOFTWARE. It was then that I realized that all PCs have stopped making registry backups, and have also stopped making restore points. I resorted to transplanting the keys from another pc, but damn. What freaked me out the most was the disabled System Restore, as I was relying on it being on for a bunch of other stuff, such a restoring previous versions of files.
@nevrynkinori3627
Жыл бұрын
I only cared for F8 functionality which is delicious. Thank you for making an awesome channel!
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
@davidhary2646
4 ай бұрын
@CyberCPU, thank you for the videos. On top of the valuable material, I like your engaging presentation and sense of humor. Question: how does the BackupCount setting work? I set it at 2 and am wondering where these two go. Question/Request: I like viewing the videos on my Pixel 8 Pro. As large as it is, deciphering the text is often hard. Would it make sense to Scale the display a bit?
@jeanaudette9487
Жыл бұрын
Your genius, tx a lot. It will help me a lot in the future 🤩👍
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Happy to help!
@machdaddy6451
Жыл бұрын
Maybe this lack of registry backup is why Windows startup repair never succeeds?
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
That's a good point. I don't think I've ever seen window starter repair actually work. Also SFC. It never seems to work either.
@machdaddy6451
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU Here's a proceudr from Chris Titus that works 95% of the time. kzitem.info/news/bejne/1IWfzpxqk4CAmWk
@christopherp.8485
Жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this. Nice for me to get back into this kind of stuff. Just subbed.
@gcmanuel85x
Жыл бұрын
This is why i store my important files on different drive than OS. Once a year clean OS installation by default, sometimes there can be issues you dont notice.
@fusionbim
Жыл бұрын
Fred Klett would say "BRILLIANT!" 🙌 this series is helping me set up the new Windows 11 install on a solid, thanks Rich.
@bbo1779
Жыл бұрын
Wow. Thanks for sharing these tips!
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome.
@Runehorn
Жыл бұрын
super helpful and super informative, luckly i did not come here looking to solve a problem, hopefully i will have an easier time fixing problems in the future with these fixes
@US_Joe
Жыл бұрын
Great stuff - U Da Man ! Thanx for this👍👍👍
@nathnathn
Жыл бұрын
This is convincing me to actually get around to figuring out why the settings app/calculator app fail to load properly half the time and why the start bars search keeps freezing every now and then. These issues have been there since i did a fresh install after wiping the drive “half because of similar issues” Though honestly I suspect it might be my C drive as its long overdue for a replacement The only drives in good health is my raid 5 array i have my misc files/steam and other game services game folders. Though they are newer “setup after a hdd failed”
@aonodensetsu
Жыл бұрын
the Windows-made backup task does not seem to have a trigger, I added one to check if it works if fixed this way
@Mario583a
Жыл бұрын
Oooooor.. and hear me out, In the Registry, navigate to whatever Hive Branch you want and go to File > Export. I think Microsoft got tired of the constant hand-holding they did with people potentially breaking Windows via the Registry. But, yeah, I don't recall any modern and recent computer just outright refusing to boot up into the OS normally. The new way to get into Safe Mode is: holding Shift when you restart OR going into Settings > (System >) Recovery > Advanced Startup > Safe Mode.
@jnovikoff001
Жыл бұрын
I'm seeing too many System Restore disabled. Even from an MS Windows flash drive; not just the PC manufacturers recovery systems.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
I've seen it a lot also. It's kind of reckless of Microsoft to disable it by default.
@reavanante2160
Жыл бұрын
My original os backup was deleted off an HP gaming notebook. I see a pattern.
@linuxgurugamer
Жыл бұрын
I've never needed this, but nice to know, thanks
@eytanran
Жыл бұрын
I really like your channel, I have a REG file that with one click enables the backup that works automatically and of course backs up the files in full, I would be happy to send you the file, Thanks Ran
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
I think I may write a script myself. I have an auto it script that I use to bulk change a bunch of settings on new systems when I set them up. I may add this to it.
@eytanran
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU Excellent, thank you
@wolphin732
Жыл бұрын
That task on my machine... had no triggers... it seemed it could just have automated triggers added to it to get it to run.
@edalecu
5 ай бұрын
still not working on W11 23H2, unfortunately
@digitalplayland
Жыл бұрын
Amazing video. Liked, saved, shared. Cheers!
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped.
@artisanbusiness1314
Жыл бұрын
I don't mind reloading windows when it crash. Remove the HD, extract the data that is needed. Reimage the OS and I am good to go. Troubleshooting windows is a pain. Data backup is a key. Everyone has a choice. Re imaging the PC, remove the unknown crap that went wrong with updates, any potential malware. For 15 years, we did this in the office. When a pc crashed. Drop in a new one, company share and emails were back in record time. It gave use time to refurbished the out going PC etc.😅
@artisanbusiness1314
Жыл бұрын
In less than 30 minutes we are good to go.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes that is a good alternative. Especially in a business environment where you have a good image to restore back to. However, most people don't. For residential customers that have a whole bunch of crap on their computer it's always best to fix the OS if possible.
@artisanbusiness1314
Жыл бұрын
@CyberCPU Tech It's true, I try to avoid wasting time because most people don't want to pay for your time. :(
@yotoprules9361
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU I always try to fix it but often I can get Windows reloaded and data backed up in like an hour, whereas I can be trying to fix a 10 year old version of Windows that has gone through Windows 7, 8, and 10 updates, and runs incredibly slowly even after cloning to an SSD and trying to clean it. On the exact same hardware, I can do a clean install of Windows and copy their data to it and it runs like new again. So really it depends on how bad their current OS install is.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
@@yotoprules9361 For me it's all about customer satisfaction. Yes, I can reload Windows and backup in an hour. The same system might take me 4 hours to fix. But in the end the customer will be happier with the four hour job then the 1 hour job. Because with the 1 hour job the customer will spend week's putting things back the way they like them. I even go one step further. I will transfer an OS from old hardware to new hardware making a customers new system identical to their old one.
@MuzdokOfficial
Жыл бұрын
So true i used to fully clean format and fresh install every 6 months. I keep my usb drive with windows 11 installer ready in case.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
I don't miss those days.
@MuzdokOfficial
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU for that me neither 😄
@clivewiddus3953
Жыл бұрын
The reason the orginal task will not run is because there are no triggers to start it off
@MuzdokOfficial
Жыл бұрын
the task was not running automatically so thank you for that. ( I manualy back up my registry from time to time so i didnt notice)
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped.
@asecret900
Жыл бұрын
Nice 1 mate. FYI - interestingly, of the 4 x Win11 machines I created the schtasks in this morning, only 2 of them gave an 'argument' warning... The other 2 just accepted the string happily.
@sprwil
5 ай бұрын
Great tutorial, thank you👍
@Blitterbug
Жыл бұрын
On all the mechanical drive systems I've performed fresh Win10/Win11 installs, System Restore is enabled by default. It appears to only be disabled by default on SSDs which makes sense, as many cheaper all-in-ones have tiny SSDs and SR takes GBs from your drive over time.
@machiavelli3839
Жыл бұрын
That was an awesome video dude with some really cool hacks, restoring some occasional, essential windows features...thanks a lot bruv!
@Relevantminded
Жыл бұрын
Great tips! Unfortunately the F8 thing didn't work for me but at least I have back ups working cheers
@WolvenSpectre
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I had a HID Driver issue with Windows that was making mice constantly double-click on Win10Pro. It was driving me nuts, so not wanting to reinstall windows I went looking for the "Refresh" function to find they have made it so if you want to keep your programs you have to get the Windows Installer ISO and mount and boot it in Windows 10 to refresh the PC. It doesn't work if you put the iso and boot into it. You have to run setup.exe on the ISO without autorunning it. Gee, want to bury it much? Thanks for the great video.
@Vicorcivius
Жыл бұрын
Windows is like someone who says they are your friend, every time you talk to them they punch you in the face, sell your life story to the local paper while at the same time telling you they are your best friend and no one else values your privacy more and would ever be a better friend to you. Yet people keep going back to this "friend" with excuses like , "well they can change, I can fix them, If I just pay them to do my taxes and spell check my resume. They will see what they are doing is wrong and change their ways." Sadly this "friend" only seems to get worse every single month.
@CesarPeron
Жыл бұрын
The Apply button applies the changes to the settings that have been made, but does not close the dialog box. The OK button also applies the changes to the settings, but in addition closes the dialog box. Apply is useful only if you are trying out different settings and don't want to have to keep re-opening the dialog box.
@kevinammann5042
Жыл бұрын
i agree registry backups and system restore points can be very helpful. ive also see system conflicts pop up inside of windows when you do successfully use a restore point. im not saying nuke and pave is always the way to go, but sometimes it can be better. ive seen files no longer be accessible, game installs be broken and driver conflicts happen due to system restores. and yes windows 11 has way too much bloat. and i hate the new task bar too. i bought stardock start11 and tweaked my win 11 install to look like win 7 and win 10. also i found it very obnoxious with win 11 that the usb stick i made of win 11 to clean install my pc that i even added device drivers for my motherboard couldnt access the onboard wireless out of the box, but win 10 could. and without network i couldnt even log in. i eventually found a workaround command prompt to disable the out of box experience. my board is an asrock x670e steel legend with a ryzen 9 7900x am5 processor, and win 10 did pick up the wireless driver for the motherboard out of box on launch of am5 last fall but win 11 wouldnt when i chose to clean install upgrade
@DJaquithFL
Жыл бұрын
As far as having a separate registry backup, it's something that personally makes little sense to me to use. System Restore backs up and restores the Registry, important Windows files, and the programs.
@scotteaton4868
Жыл бұрын
Seriously folks, I've supported thousands of Windows desktops over the past few years, and I've run into one issue of a corrupted registry since XP. The hell are you guys doing? I push clients to get full periodic system images, not registry exports. SSD crashes and ransomeware can't be fixed with a registry restore.
@repairman2be250
Жыл бұрын
Acronis Trueimage works for me.
@ScottGrammer
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the instructions on how to re-enable registry backups! I can, I think, shed some light on why M$ turned off the F8 startup menu. When I followed your instructions on my HTPC to re-enable that functionality, it worked like a charm. That machine is based on a six-year-old SFF HP business desktop. But when I tried it on my main computer, built on an Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard, it did not work, because that motherboard's bios "hijacks" the F8 command and then presents you with the option to choose an alternate bootloader. Windows never sees the F8 command, and so it does not give you the option for safe mode, etc. I suspect that the functionality was removed from Windows to give the "F8 at boot" command to bios creators.
@kenczerwinski3006
Жыл бұрын
I enjoy your videos and get lots of tips from them. Is it possible to create scripts so I could make a "Repair Tech" flash drive to use when repairing computers. Maybe you could even sell the script flash drives along with the t-shirts... I repair computers for free for our computer club in a 55 and older community. We have over 1500 members. I suppose I could catalog links to all your videos in a folder on my regular repair flash drive. Thanks for everything you do. It's a great help.
@dream2big
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the info. Its nice to have the registry backing up. The F8 didn't work - well you tried. Its funny that is didn't work as I can hit F9 and go into the boot menu and when I go and hit enter, I can hit F8 right after and some of the time it goes into safe mode screen. Maybe it just needs a bigger hammer.
@leocatz
Жыл бұрын
I just went through the same experience. And found the same problem, no registry backup and no system restore. Ended up having to do the same, clean install and a lot of PITA. Having seen this video beforehand would have saved me hours. With copious amounts of storage being so affordable, it's ridiculous to be "saving" a few MB of storage at the cost being able to easily restore to the last stable settings. At the very least they should make it a user option to use more storage for registry backup with just a few clicks in a setup menu.
@thenfsu2-king53
Жыл бұрын
that reg update feature could have been very helpful during that barco clickshare/MS 365 problem in january 23, where an api have broken the registy, but thanks to MS... Sometimes i think MS is having fun torturing Sysadmins. Beside that, thanks for the very informative video, I didn't knowed that that it is disabled since 1803. Greetings from germany 😀
@boedilllard5952
Жыл бұрын
Windows 11 - has a new "feature" for the same hardware I had with Windows 10. I could set aside space on my drives for a system restore. Same hardware, latest and old drivers - same issue - no drives identified as supporting backup.
@wolphin732
Жыл бұрын
Safemode is easier to get to... hold shift when clicking the restart option... and you can select for it to reboot into safemode or even the bios right from that menu which comes up. No need to hammer keys
@douglasbennett1768
Жыл бұрын
I think the reason he's doing this is that one of the options in the legacy safe mode is the "Last Known Good Configuration" option. That's missing from the current safe mode since MS disabled it.
@Mario583a
Жыл бұрын
@@douglasbennett1768 To be fair, it's physically impossible for Windows to be so broken what whatever went awry to even use the last known good config option.
@douglasbennett1768
Жыл бұрын
@@Mario583a I've had instances where Windows wouldn't boot and Last Known Good worked to get me back in, but YMMV.
@Anon1370
Жыл бұрын
@@douglasbennett1768 i've had this too on older windows where that was the only option what worked so i've set it back up on windows 11
@CesarPeron
Жыл бұрын
That option is more cumbersome and not useful if you can not start the system...
@markwiley7251
2 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@CyberCPU
2 ай бұрын
You're welcome, appreciate it.
@joek4828
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for these info, but the Last Known Good Config never been disabled rather than MS changed how you access it. hold down the left Shift key on your keyboard while you clicking on the restart button from the start menu. that will boot you into a recovery mode, where you can do advanced troubleshoot and choose advanced startup option. that will boot you into the recovery menu options where you have safe mode or last know good configuration. and let's say you don't have access to windows from the start and need that menu, simply force shutdown the pc during the boot up to get to the repair startup, skip that to the advanced recovery menu and you get access to the same page. Thanks
@toad1771ify
Жыл бұрын
Nice. Hey I noticed in the video that the task that has to be manually ran to get the registry backup had no trigger so perhaps that's why it didn't run on its own...
@toad1771ify
Жыл бұрын
If you have no permissions to add a trigger directly to the regidlebackup task then download power run from sordum which allows you to run scheduler as trusted installer or anything else for that matter
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
No, that's not it. The task itself is broken. I tried all that. Spent like 2 hours trying to get it to work. The only solution was calling it from another task like I show in the video.
@edalecu
5 ай бұрын
@@CyberCPU Hi! I also noticed there is no trigger set for the regidlebackup task and I've tried this way, but it still doesn't work on W11 23H2. So the only way to run it is either manually or called by another scheduled task, as you showed in the video. Thanks a lot for this tip! This makes me less worried in case of a registry corruption, as I have a way of restoring it.
@roberthancox-mj3wl
3 ай бұрын
Be nice to see a vid from you of how to save all of your win 11 reg hacks (even if it means adding the complete backup of the registry folder)and then add all of them to a custom iso file being made with NTLITE and hopefully you could also add the hosts file to stop ET from phoning home to Microsoft
@OrlandoPaco
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for that Legacy boot! And for the copy paste!!
@dera6347
Жыл бұрын
On system restore. My build was originally Windows 7. I used the Windows 7 key to fresh install Windows 10 (5 months after it came out.) Later I used the same key to fresh install Windows 11 (6 months after it came out.) after awhile I purchased a Windows 10 Pro key and upgraded Windows 11 to pro with it. I followed your steps to make sure system restore was on. It was already enabled for C at 1% usage. It is disabled for all my other drives. I bumped it up to 17% as C is a 500 Gig SSD that only has the OS on it and all the drivers. Programs installed on different drives, as well as data I create, incase I ever have to reinstall Windows. Of course I would still need to reinstall the programs if I ever had to reinstall Windows but I would still have all the data.
@CyberCPU
Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure why system restore is enabled on some systems and disabled on others. It was enabled by default on the 22H2 install that I used in the video, I disabled it for the example in the video. It was a fresh install of Windows just for this video. However, I've seen it disabled on tons of systems running newer builds of windows. I don't know why. It's bizarre. Maybe it's not Microsoft disabling it. Maybe it's manufacturers like Dell or HP doing it.
@dera6347
Жыл бұрын
@@CyberCPU this is why I mentioned it. I am now wondering if the key had anything to do with it. I used to make sure it was on. Over time I got better at avoiding the things that can mess up the OS. Also the OS being on its own drive makes data loss less likely. Jist for fun, this is my drive setup. There is C, D, M, and R drives. C (NVmE) is OS only. D is SSD for programs and files I create. Robocopy copies all created files to M. M stores all my photography. Robocopy clones M to R. M and R are mechanical drives in the Terabytes. Robocopy is on scheduled running. Redundancy is very good.
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