When I installed Windows 10 as upgrade on my laptop, no programs were lost. The problem I reported here was on my Dell desktop that came with Windows 10. The programs were deleted when I "upgraded" to the anniversary edition of Windows 10 that just came out. In addition to deleting some programs, I also found that a number of programs that ran fine under original Win 10 would no longer work with the anniversary edition. I fixed my situation by rolling back the "upgrade" and it restored my previous Win 10 and my programs were back! At least that part was good.

I still have not figured out why I can't seem to run a restore operation from the backups I created on the system disk. Windows reports that it can't find any backups even though they are on an internal drive.

Peter Shkabara
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent Winterling [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: windows 10 backup

That’s odd Peter that you lost programs. I’ve been an Insider and performed 25 upgrades during the beta period and not one altered the installed programs.

Where are the backups located? On an external? 

Some backup programs can’t read from externals without additional components. I’ve learned this through experience with Acronis True Image. A recent upgrade to their rescue media now permits restoring from an external. Previously, Acronis could not see an image on an external.

As far as possible replacements, I’m a long standing user of Acronis but I hear good things about Macrium Reflect.
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Vincent Winterling
Vineland, NJ


On 8/3/16, 8:06 PM, "Personal Computer Hardware discussion List on behalf of Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:

    First a WARNING. Today I made the mistake of updating my Windows 10 to the
    "new" Windows 10. In the "upgrade" it deleted many of my programs without
    asking. It did report that it deleted CCleaner and another program because
    they were "not compatible" - but it also deleted some of the programs that I
    wrote myself and run just fine under win 10.
    
    
    
    I had regularly run backups of my system disk using Windows 10 system backup
    so I expected that I could restore the missing programs. However, this is
    the first time I tried doing such a restore. To my surprise, Windows can't
    find any of the backups although they are there my backup drive. Although I
    am computer competent, I could use some help here. Any info on steps to
    recover individual files from a Win 10 system backup would be helpful - can
    this be done? If not, then I am also looking for a backup solution to
    replace the one that comes with Win 10.
    
    
    
    Thank you for any help.
    
    
    
    Peter Shkabara
    
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