Microsoft Shortens Recovery Rollback Period to 10 Days in Windows 10 Anniversary Update

[nlinecomputers]

http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/...-period-10-days-windows-10-anniversary-update

Ever since Windows 10 started to offer users an opportunity to recover their system by rolling back an upgrade installation the window for that option was always 30 days.

This made a lot of sense during the first year with Windows 10 as Microsoft was offering Windows 7 and 8.1 users a free upgrade to Windows 10 and 3 to 4 weeks is a good period of time to check things out. If they were unhappy for whatever reason they had plenty of time to rollback to their previous version of Windows.

Of course, this recovery option was also available for Windows Insiders just in case they needed to back down from a new build to sort out any issues with the latest update.

Well, as I have been poking around the recently released Windows 10 Anniversary Update I noticed that this recovery option's timeframe has been changed to just 10 days.

 

[TurricanII]

Microsoft said.. "Based on our user research, we noticed most users who choose to go back to a previous version of Windows do it within the first several days. As such, we changed the setting to 10 days to free storage space used by previous copies."

Sod off Microsoft. If you gave a crap you would leave the rollback files around until the user deleted them, or perhaps you could have placed a shortcut/wizard on the desktop to 'remove rollback files'. Instead you want to make it too much effort to get fed up and roll back.

 

[nlinecomputers]

I think 30 days is fine because no user, except techs like us, would know about let alone would delete them. And I suspect that Microsoft is right. Users either stick with it or roll back immediately. Forever is just wasting drive space.

 

[TurricanII]

I've had a couple of close calls where the end user has left it a while before finding out their important app doesn't work and asking us to get rid of Windows 10. Even 30 days is a bit risky. I agree that most people know whether they want to keep it in week 1, but there would have been a benefit to giving users a choice/reminder or perhaps checking free space <30% before closing that option.

 

[FremontPC]

I've found that Windows womits a fair bit of the time when using the rollback anyway. I always get a disk image first. No image? "Well (insert customer name), this is where regular disk image backups can save you a ton of money...".

 

[Moltuae]

I think 30 days is fine because no user, except techs like us, would know about let alone would delete them. And I suspect that Microsoft is right. Users either stick with it or roll back immediately. Forever is just wasting drive space.

I agree.

Or, since Microsoft seem to like pushing their wares via tray notification pop-ups, perhaps they could simply remind the user with a similar prompt that requests permission to delete their old version of Windows to free-up space.

 

[nlinecomputers]

perhaps they could simply remind the user with a similar prompt that requests permission to delete their old version of Windows to free-up space.

I can tell you now that 90% of my users would be too afraid to do that. While at the same time concerned that they are out of hard drive space on their 20% used Terabyte drive because they have too many icons on the desktop.

 

[glricht]

I can tell you now that 90% of my users would be too afraid to do that. While at the same time concerned that they are out of hard drive space on their 20% used Terabyte drive because they have too many icons on the desktop.

Almost all of my home users are like this, and more than you'd expect of my business users too!

 

[sapphirescales]

This is absolute BS. Even the cheapest computers nowadays come with 1TB of hard drive space. The rollback files can't take up more than 20GB. Unless you bought a $120 HP "streambook" from Walmart, that 20GB is nothing. Heck, even 500GB hard drives were standard 6 years ago. I had a 500gb hard drive back in 2007.....9 years ago. This is just a move by Microsoft to try to force people to remain on Windows 10. They're hoping the end user that hates it and wants to roll back won't figure out how to do it in time, or won't get it into a shop fast enough. That's really what's going on here.

 

[GTP]

This is absolute BS. Even the cheapest computers nowadays come with 1TB of hard drive space. The rollback files can't take up more than 20GB. Unless you bought a $120 HP "streambook" from Walmart, that 20GB is nothing. Heck, even 500GB hard drives were standard 6 years ago. I had a 500gb hard drive back in 2007.....9 years ago. This is just a move by Microsoft to try to force people to remain on Windows 10. They're hoping the end user that hates it and wants to roll back won't figure out how to do it in time, or won't get it into a shop fast enough. That's really what's going on here.

During the "free upgrade" period I had plenty of customers that decided to rollback after only a couple of days - only to find that the "Rollback To Your Previous Version..." option didn't actually exist.

I think 30 days is fine because no user, except techs like us, would know about let alone would delete them

I think your underselling your clients....They know more than you think!

 

[nlinecomputers]

I think your underselling your clients....They know more than you think!

No. I would say about 80% of my clients put files on the desktop because that is the ONLY way they will ever find them again. Clients like that would NEVER know about let alone find the windows.old directory to delete it. Therefore Microsoft is doing them a bit of a favor by cleaning it up and deleting it. These same people call me about having a FULL hard drive when they have run out of room to put icons on the desktop. No sorry, they don't have a fraking clue.

 

[GTP]

Maybe something in the water here...
I'd say about 50% -60% of my customers are "above average" tech savvy.
Of the others maybe 25% are average, 10% can check their email and the rest are dumber than dog s#!t

call me about have a FULL hard drive when they have run out of room to put icons on the desktop

Lol

 

[glennd]

Maybe something in the water here...
I'd say about 50% -60% of my customers are "above average" tech savvy.
Of the others maybe 25% are average, 10% can check their email and the rest are dumber than dog s#!t

Lol

The water here must be pretty bad then!