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Infidelus said:
I've also seen System Restore fail on multiple occasions, so I'd go with the backup advice of others, ironic or not :)
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I have also seen backup fail on multiple occasions, made no difference, ironic or not :)

Macrium for example.

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2196889/macrium-reflect-problem

Not much you can do with corrupted backup, failed backup USB stick/external hard disks.

I never backup my PCs after every update installed from Windows Update for the last 19 years since Windows Me. :o

I only do and been done backup when there are early signs of file corrupts/errors and S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) advanced warning of hard disk failures. Or backup/clone to brand new large USB sticks/HDDs/SSDs.

People who backup PCs regularly before download updates from Windows Update are paranoid, it just a massive waste of time. System Restore is good enough and very quick to create restore points instantly in no time used very little hard disk space.
 
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AthlonXP1800 said:
People who backup PCs regularly before download updates from Windows Update are paranoid, it just a massive waste of time. System Restore is good enough and very quick to create restore points instantly in no time used very little hard disk space.
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Really? I mean I often don't bother but calling people paranoid after the last few months especially is going a bit far.
 
Rroff said:
Really? I mean I often don't bother but calling people paranoid after the last few months especially is going a bit far.
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Some of these people man, they really make me laugh. How they get so attached to things like it's a cult. Backing up is good no matter how big or small it is including backing up the backup.
 
Back when I did use Windows more at home, I'd make a Ghost image after I'd done a base install with Windows Updates & my most used software. If something broke then it was minutes to get back up and running.
 
I remember first seeing Ghost 5 (with Ghostwalker to change the computer name & SID) a few years after I first started doing IT support. I fell in love. It made doing the NT4 refresh of about 500 PCs a walk in the park :)
 
Acronis TrueImage for me - although the interface is dumbed down and not always intuitive to which backup is which and it doesn't like it when you move the .tib files to a sub-directory. But generally it is has been a sanity saver for me. Clone operation works well for udpating systems to ssd from hdd.
(I've not read previous pages, pls excuse if ATI already mentioned)
 
cbwallop said:
Acronis TrueImage for me - although the interface is dumbed down and not always intuitive to which backup is which and it doesn't like it when you move the .tib files to a sub-directory. But generally it is has been a sanity saver for me. Clone operation works well for udpating systems to ssd from hdd.
(I've not read previous pages, pls excuse if ATI already mentioned)
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Once Ghost couldn't do some SATA model hard drives I moved to this. Was all good.
 
At risk of repeating previous posts - I am left wondering how Microsoft can get something as obvious as a wifi driver for an intel wifi card so clearly wrong, and still keep putting it back on my device during a blacked out boot screen even after I have tried to disable updates.
My scenario - Win10pro, standard software only was working fine until end of Feb, some update left network adapter in device manager 'working properly' but no wifi networks as device not connected. I download Intel device driver utility that uninstalls existing driver v20.n, run again to install Intel's version 19.n and wifi is back working.

Now here's an odd thing I did not know before.. according to Gigabyte support, a windows Shut down does not really shut down your laptop, instead it goes into a deep sleep state so when powered on it boots quick and without the BIOS screen prompt. However, if choosing Restart (the Win10 description for shutting down the laptop is exactly the same as shut down) but this time it really does power off the laptop and the next power up does indeed show the BIOS select option.

BUT - the screen stays blacked out for at least 5 minutes (sometimes nearly 10 minutes!) and at first I suspected a hardware fault. Patiently waiting longer than an old slow 5400 fragmented sata drive would take to boot and the logon screen eventually appears - pressing any key does not activate the pwd cursor, only ctrl+alt+del or the left mouse button does that, and guess what - the wifi driver has been updated (no LAN cable btw) back to v 20.n and wifi no longer works.

How.. how does Microshaft even survive? No acceptance of this issue. Oddly, all previous system restores have been wiped and only option offered is.. re-install a clean Windows restoration. Really?! What have they done, clearly I am missing something here, like a reliable operating system on an 18 month old latop.

Anyone else experienced the blacked-out screen for 5 minutes on Restart?
 
cbwallop said:
At risk of repeating previous posts - I am left wondering how Microsoft can get something as obvious as a wifi driver for an intel wifi card so clearly wrong, and still keep putting it back on my device during a blacked out boot screen even after I have tried to disable updates.
My scenario - Win10pro, standard software only was working fine until end of Feb, some update left network adapter in device manager 'working properly' but no wifi networks as device not connected. I download Intel device driver utility that uninstalls existing driver v20.n, run again to install Intel's version 19.n and wifi is back working.

Now here's an odd thing I did not know before.. according to Gigabyte support, a windows Shut down does not really shut down your laptop, instead it goes into a deep sleep state so when powered on it boots quick and without the BIOS screen prompt. However, if choosing Restart (the Win10 description for shutting down the laptop is exactly the same as shut down) but this time it really does power off the laptop and the next power up does indeed show the BIOS select option.

BUT - the screen stays blacked out for at least 5 minutes (sometimes nearly 10 minutes!) and at first I suspected a hardware fault. Patiently waiting longer than an old slow 5400 fragmented sata drive would take to boot and the logon screen eventually appears - pressing any key does not activate the pwd cursor, only ctrl+alt+del or the left mouse button does that, and guess what - the wifi driver has been updated (no LAN cable btw) back to v 20.n and wifi no longer works.

How.. how does Microshaft even survive? No acceptance of this issue. Oddly, all previous system restores have been wiped and only option offered is.. re-install a clean Windows restoration. Really?! What have they done, clearly I am missing something here, like a reliable operating system on an 18 month old latop.

Anyone else experienced the blacked-out screen for 5 minutes on Restart?
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I've not experienced the blacked out screen before but I too did only did find out about the shutdown not actually shutting down last week. You can turn this off in the power settings https://lifehacker.com/shutting-down-windows-10-doesnt-actually-shut-down-wind-1825532376
 
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