What Happened
I find my Windows 10 x64 system in a bit of a mess since having to interrupt a stalled file copy with a power-off (holding the power button down on my desktop).
Consequently, I lost a bunch of registry settings, including all settings for a few programs, all my individual Explorer folder settings, and lots of window size and position settings. This is a major pain.
How I Tried to Fix It, But Failed
Quick solution should have been using System Restore to a recent restore point — but it didn’t work!
Here’s the error I keep receiving, with a number of variations (no idea why this one mentions my E: drive, since SysRest is disabled for E: — most of the errors refer to C:, but the same directory or file):
I’ve tried restoring to two different System Restore points (a third one vanished today, for some reason), running from Safe Mode (but not a Clean Boot, yet), uninstalling all Apple products and force-deleting the more stubborn Apple files…
A Possible Solution and Why I Can’t Use It
While I would love to get System Restore working properly despite Apple’s interference, all I really want right now is to restore the registry. There’s an article for how to do that here:
Problem is, neither C: (system drive) nor F: (File History drive) has any subdirectories named C:System Volume Information_Restore{#} (Yes, I’ve taken ownership of System Volume Information on both drives, and given my account full permissions.)
Question
If I’m to follow the instructions in that thread, I first need to find where my System Restore points are actually being stored.
My basic question is then in two parts:
- Where are my System Restore point files?
- Will the linked, manual registry restore process (2nd post, for me) work on Windows 10 x64?
