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by jeroenhd
358 days ago
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You mean leave them off by default? Because that was what Windows did back in the day when the feature was introduced. I don't know why they lowered the retention limit from 90 days to 60 days but I'm guessing it has to do with reusing old windows bootloaders to bypass things like secure boot (again). Could also be to prevent issues where you install a new vulnerable bootloader blacklist into your motherboard and do a system restore which tries to load a vulnerable bootloader and leaves your system unbootable. Either way, in my experience Windows rarely kept over a month of system restore point anyway, as it keeps making new ones every time you install software (updates) or update your system. The default space assigned to the system drive has rarely been big enough to keep more than a week or so of system restore points for me. |
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Windows Me. Why bring up an operating model from 24 years ago if people got used to a different one now, with SR on by default?
60 days compared to the old 10-90 days doesn't sound too bad for most users, especially if it used to be "mostly 10 days". Probably every installer now creates a restore point quickly reaching the disk quota (used to be 10%).
Not sure why it's not configurable though. After all, it's local storage on my machine and my OS. So based on this alone a decision to enforce any deletion policy that the user can't control is MS being MS again.