Microsoft is Making it Harder to Fix Windows

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Жыл бұрын

Microsoft is making it harder to fix Windows by disabling features like Automatic Registry Backups and system restore. Looks like they would rather people have to reload Windows when things go wrong. I'll show you today how to reenable these features so when problems come up, they can be fixed.
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Notes from video:
Registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Configuration Manager
Add Dword 32Bit [EnablePeriodicBackup] set to 1
Add Dword 32Bit [BackupCount] Set to desired number of backups
Command For Task scheduler
schtasks /run /i /tn "\Microsoft\Windows\Registry\RegIdleBackup"
Enable F8 menu
New Key [LastKnownGood]
New Dword 32Bit [Enabled] set to 1
In an administrator CMD
bcdedit /Set {Current} BootMenuPolicy Legacy
To change back to new menu
bcdedit /Set {Current} BootMenuPolicy Standard
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@DJdoppIer Жыл бұрын

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...

@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.

@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?

@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 :-:)

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@tendosingh5682 Жыл бұрын

Love that you summarized the steps and made it easily visible.

@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.

@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.

@fcknkllr Жыл бұрын

I love that I found this channel! Your info is great. Happily subbed!

@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!

@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...

@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.

@Buddy308 11 ай 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!

@machdaddy6451 Жыл бұрын

This procedure has allowed me to fix so many computers that wouldn't boot.

@christopherp.8485 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this. Nice for me to get back into this kind of stuff. Just subbed.

@clintongryke6887 Жыл бұрын

Really cool, well described and useful. Thank you so much!

@CyberCPU Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped.

@Obie327 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff CyberCPU Tech! Thanks for great tutorial video!

@CyberCPU Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@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.

@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.

@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

@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. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9KKialn0Zymg5s.html

@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 10 ай 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.

@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.

@stevesummerlin2604 Жыл бұрын

Great find. Thanks. I added to all of my systems.

@US_Joe Жыл бұрын

Great stuff - U Da Man ! Thanx for this👍👍👍

@HayzerX Жыл бұрын

Really nice tips, thank you!

@CyberCPU Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

@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

@Mark-bn7lk 11 ай 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.

@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.

@machiavelli3839 Жыл бұрын

That was an awesome video dude with some really cool hacks, restoring some occasional, essential windows features...thanks a lot bruv!

@davidhary2646 2 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?

@digitalplayland Жыл бұрын

Amazing video. Liked, saved, shared. Cheers!

@CyberCPU Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped.

@linuxgurugamer Жыл бұрын

I've never needed this, but nice to know, thanks

@bbo1779 Жыл бұрын

Wow. Thanks for sharing these tips!

@CyberCPU Жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

@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.

@yohakimngamel Жыл бұрын

Nice tips and info good job

@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

@sprwil 3 ай бұрын

Great tutorial, thank you👍

@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.

@aramistech Жыл бұрын

Awesome tip, I really appreciate your video. Super helpful for sure. Microsoft is always trying to help us out for sure

@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

@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!!!

@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.

@mstrred76 9 ай бұрын

Great videos though! You're awesome.😀

@kenshyura Жыл бұрын

As a computer tech, you've saved my ass- sorry, my day.

@CyberCPU Жыл бұрын

Glad it's helpful.

@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.

@Mark-bn7lk 8 ай бұрын

Rich, After making these changes a few months ago on a Windows 11 PC I have noticed that registry backup files such as Default, Sam, Security, Software, etc. show up in their own separate files in the config folder, not under the RegBack folder. Is there any way to change this behavior? In case of emergency, I would like to know that the registry backup folders are where they should be rather than floating around in the config folder.

@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.

@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.

@jeanaudette9487 Жыл бұрын

Your genius, tx a lot. It will help me a lot in the future 🤩👍

@CyberCPU Жыл бұрын

Happy to help!

@captaindaedalus1 Жыл бұрын

This is all really good stuff. But for those of us who might be trying to learn from your videos, how about some explanation as to why we might want to back up the registry and how to use that back up? What, disable telemetry? Blasphemy! I wonder how much resources that telemetry takes.

@Juliodax Жыл бұрын

Excellent!!! Thank you!!!.

@irving.t Жыл бұрын

Hi, great video, thank you. I never use windows restore, i use more Macrium Ref****** for backups. Greetings from France.

@COH2000 5 ай бұрын

Your description says To change back to new menu bcdedit /Set {Current} BootMenuPolicy Standard but you said change 'Legacy' to 'regular' to. Which is correct to use?

@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!

@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.

@Tripillian 8 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!!!

@muddyexport5639 Жыл бұрын

Many Thanks!!! Good Vid!!!

@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!

@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

@aonodensetsu Жыл бұрын

Windows 11 actually comes with System Restore enabled for the system disk, enabled it for my Home disk as well

@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.

@vancecost 4 ай бұрын

@CyberCPU I am familiar with editing the Registry, But the F8 registry doesn't work. I have tripled checked everything. Do you know it could not be working? Any suggestions ??? Thanks

@user-qb7qs5el4w Жыл бұрын

I'm a new subscriber. I just found you by chance looking up "I don't want a Microsoft account for 11" but have a problem. I was following a video about system restore. When you open it's tiny and hard to read. I have made adjustments to the size of screen and text but does not solve this and similar problems like it. Is there a fix for this? Love what's happening on your channel!!!!

@topgun52 Жыл бұрын

Question: Do new auto backup files over write the old one or do they just accumulate taking up more and more hard drive space? Thanks 4 sharing your knowledge!

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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

@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!

@Relevantminded Жыл бұрын

Great tips! Unfortunately the F8 thing didn't work for me but at least I have back ups working cheers

@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”

@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

@martinck1324 Жыл бұрын

thanks ... love this

@MichelPougin Жыл бұрын

Excellent video, thank you. I use Win 11 and set "BackupCount" to 2 (as you in the video), but there is only one folder called "RegBack". Even when I manually run "RegIdleBackup" it's only updating the already existing files in RegBack. Where can I find the second backup?

@terryeyeguy 6 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!!

@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.

@drewzilla1263 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@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.

@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.

@gregorskiff Жыл бұрын

How do you fix the MMC snap in error when you try to open scheduler? I found a few reg tweaks but those did not work.

@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 😀

@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.

@brianh.4185 Жыл бұрын

You set BackupCount to two. After running RegIdleBackup then the new task you created, why didn’t you have two copies of the registry files in your folder?

@krosos6969 Жыл бұрын

I have Windows 11 and when I try to create new trigger and set it up I don't have the option of Windows 11 only 10. Will 10 work for 11?

@T_H_I_S_ Жыл бұрын

kind of a problem tho, because i downloaded a cracked version of windows 11 with ur video of course but when i tried to run it , it said "it has not run yet'' or something like that. so i cant continue to the next steps. please let me know if i had done something wrong.

@paulstubbs7678 Жыл бұрын

Mostly went to your script My WIn10 in stall is really old, those backup options were all disabled. I had all sorts of trouble running the command prompt as admin - any ideas why - odd

@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

@aperson1181 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, so we can create a schedule with the SFC and DISM tools?

@OrlandoPaco Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for that Legacy boot! And for the copy paste!!

@markwiley7251 Ай бұрын

Hey Rich, will the F8 boot solution in this video work on windows 11?

@COH2000 4 ай бұрын

When setting up the new task called ‘AutoRegBackup” The pulldown window to select operating system does not have ‘Windows 11’. Can I select Windows 10 instead?

@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.