With a paid for version of Macrium Reflect it is far faster to make a backup immediately before installing 'potentially dodgy' drivers or software, then restore the backup if it goes badly. Wherever possible I try to avoid having to use a restore point. It seems to take forever (well, 15 minutes or more) just 'preparing to restore' before it even starts restoring the registry. I use both as appropriate, and TBH even in Windows 10 I'm finding a restore point painfully slow. A restore point reverts the system to the state at the time of the restore point without affecting any user files created later, while restoring a backup reverts everything back to a point in time, loosing any subsequent new or changed user files. So, for those who use the System Restore feature, are you noticing inordinate long restore times under Windows 11?Ĭlick to expand.Yes, the two are quite different. Anyway, I tried again, and this time after about 10 minutes the operation completed. The thing is, the operation should take no longer than 5 minutes, if that. Rebooting back into Windows, I was told the system never finished the restore operation. It ran for at least 15 before I rebooted, thinking the system crashed. In fact, it took so long that I thought the system crashed. That said, there appears to be an issue under Windows 11 where the restore process takes forever to complete.
If something goes wrong or I decide I don't want the app or driver, I simply tell System Restore to restore the system back to before the the app or driver install. I'll create a manual restore point for the app or driver in question before installation. So, I use "System Restore" to create manual restore points when I want to test drivers or apps. This is about using a feature for which is was designed. First, please this is not about "backups" and has nothing to do with backing up.
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