


In recent months Microsoft has intensified its attempt to move hundreds of millions of Windows 7 users to Windows 10. Ironically, it involves editing the registry but this will undoubtedly have come too late for users who, in their hour of need, discovered the registry backups Windows 10 told them were “completed successfully” were nothing of the sort. In an extremely belated attempt to put things right, Microsoft has detailed a workaround. And how big is a registry backup? Typically 50-100MB.

So why has Microsoft done this? In the company’s own words: “to help reduce the overall disk footprint size of Windows”. Important Windows 10 registry backups are being saved as empty files Microsoft
