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Agreed I shut down every night too
10 has it's scheduled maintenance crud so it's just another annoyance to deal with
But you can alter the updating in group policy in win-10tp last I checked giving local admin the choice to take control of the when and what to download and install.
Will it work it's anyone's guess at this early stage :)
I also stopped using System Restore to revert software/update changes a while ago and just use the Windows Image backup weekly instead, it's never let me down.
The only reason I keep System Restore turned on is it's handy to see which software has changed since the last system image. I can open SR and quickly see the list of what has changed, so I'll know what to update after the restore. But I keep it set to 1% so that it takes up minimal space on my HDD.
I always make an image before installing MS updates.
I manually install all my updates so knowing which ones need reupdating after an image restore isn't a problem for me. Besides, I have software—Glary Utilities and Avast free—that will tell me what software needs updating after a restore.
I agree that updating software after rolling back to a system image backup isn't a problem at all. As for System Restore - it's disabled.
My method for comparison of personal files that might be lost when rolling back.
Mount the system image backup. Copy contents ofsystem image backupuser folder on system image backup, example: (Drive Letter)\Users\Username to another non-windows drive - on my machine I'd use Drive D.
Restore the image.
Use Copy Changed Files to copy only files that are missing or have changed from (Drive Letter)\Users\Username backup that was created on drive D to current drive (Windows Drive)\Users\Username
Sounds complicated but it isn't once you get used to it!
Last edited by Callender; 17 May 2015 at 15:33. Reason: add info
Never used Glary, I'll have to take a look at that. As for Avast I find it only has about 10 apps I use in it's list of outdated software, so I never really use it.
Windows SR lists every bit of software that's changed.
I use a different backup system (Clone) for my D: (Data) partition. I don't include anything from that in my system image so never need to restore anything on my Data drive after restoring an image. Plus, it keeps my image sizes and times down.
Hmm, I guess I'm different as I don't do entire system images though as I don't have the time to. I only do a backup of my files when I change them as usually I only use the computer to surf the web. Also, I have never had a problem with System Restore yet except with a program that got reinstalled incorrectly through the restore which I fixed.
What is slow as a dead turtle? How many minutes, hours ???
PSI is not really a program update checker.
It checks for missing security patches andout of dateend of life programs.
I run it occasionally to see what it finds, runs in a matter of minutes for me, on old hardware with OS's installed years ago.
I never tried Glary, I'll have to check that out.
If you want to try the most comprehensive update checker I've found, check out SUMo.
There is a learning curve to use and understand it.
It may report more than you want to know about.
There is a SUMo portable version, so no install needed.
Last edited by DavidE; 17 May 2015 at 18:19. Reason: fix info
Ditto on SUMO if you can get the clean version. :)
Still using the old PSI v2.0 for a check every few weeks. Usually a scan takes a couple of minutes.