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JoeGus7:
I've had problems with MS System Restore going back as far as Win XP.  My Win 10 solution is to use an easy whole drive backup software program.  I have found that Macrium Reflect does the job. 
 
My first concern in doing a backup of an operating system is that I want to be completely out of the operating system that I am backing up.  Win 10 does not allow you to even look at a file that is in use - much less to copy that file.  So the first thing Macrium does is to ask you to create a CD or flash drive to boot from - the flash drive boots twice as fast as the CD version.  So you can be completely out of Win 10 to do both a backup and restore of the entire C drive.  Incidently  Win 10 has 2 hidden drives that should always be backed and restored with drive C. 
 
I have 3 additional logical hard drives that are on the same physical drive as C.  All the logical hard drives can be backedup and restored independently of each other.   
 
What about backup time?  Macrium allows you to do something called an incremental backup.  So the first backup of a drive takes the longest - one hour, 15 minutes for my smaller C drive.  The second backup backs up only the changes to the C drive.  Now Microsoft is constantly creating and deleting log files.  So the C drive has a lot of activity.  But my second and successsive backups take about 11 minutes, which includes the time need to verify that all the information was copied correctly.  My D drive takes about 3 minutes - including the verify.     
     
My other option is to backup the registry using the tweaking.com program.  I have some issues here and will write up another entry.      P.S. I always do a tweaking.com registry restore using the Windows Recovery Console because it is run outside of Win 10 on the C drive.

Boggin:

--- Quote from: oldgray1938 on March 15, 2017, 06:16:00 pm ---Yes I tried what you posted.  Got as far as the renaming of the WindowsApps to Windowsapps.old.  I rebooted the system to see if windows would recreate the WindowsApps folder with all of the 1000 plus sub folders and all of the thousands of folder and files. The only thing I had was WindowsApps.old.  There was no new WindowsApps created by Windows

It is impossible to delete the WindowsApps.old as I get a message that there is a file in use and the delete will not work.

--- End quote ---

You should be able to delete the WindowsApps.old folder as I had in the WPE Command Prompt.

The reason you may not be able to find the new WindowsApps folder is because it is hidden.

Go back into the WPE Command Prompt and enter these cmds -

c:

cd Program Files

attrib WindowsApps -h

attrib WindowsApps.old -h

rd /s WindowsApps.old

exit

Continue to Win 10 and search for WindowsApps

If the remove cmd works, then you can also search for the .old to confirm it has gone.

oldgray1938:
I followed your procedure in going from WindowsApps to WindowsApps.old.  The problem I encountered when trying to delete WindowsApps.old was an error message saying it could not delete the folder since there was a file in the Windows.old folder that was in use.  I will try what you recommended once more but I expect to get the same result.  Keep you posted.
Paul

Boggin:
There shouldn't be anything open in the .old folder and especially in the WPE.

What you could do is to repeat the rename cmd but reversed such as -

rename WindowsApps.old WindowsApps

That way you should just have the original and then you could try the rename cmd again to see if you have success in removing the .old version then.

oldgray1938:
OK finally redid per your instructions and got windowsapps renamed again to windowsapps.old.  the rd command removed windowsapps.old.  With windowsapps.old gone there was no windowsapps in the programs files folder.  The system did not recreate the windowsapps folder.  Examining the apps  under all programs there were very few apps available six in all.  Next I copied the windowsapps folder from my clean PC to the one that had the problems with the system restore points.  Now located in the programs folder a folder from my other PC.  However, the numbers of available apps is minimal.    All I have available are six apps where before the problem there were at least 42.  The apps on the system where I copied the windowsapps from shows 42 available. 

Not sure how to populate the apps in Windowsapps.  Well so far the restore point seems to be working.

Thanks

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