WTF, Microsoft?

When things have gone wrong on standalone Windows machines — and they often have — one of my repair tricks of last resort has been to restore the Windows Registry to an earlier known good state. A lot of times, doing a restore was faster than a backup.

Good thing I haven’t had to do that lately, though. Microsoft quietly removed this feature in October 2018’s Windows 10 version 1803. But it didn’t bother to tell users about it until late June 2019.

So my question for Microsoft, as a professional journalist, is: WTF?

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