After I have update my Win 10 at least half of plugins have been de-activated (for example many from iZotope and Plugin Alliance plugin). I don't want to download them again and reinstall everything. I don't have Activators or keygens anymore.... Can someone help me?

 

i have backups of all my installers for this occasion.
why dont you want to DL installers again? you might be forced to. it must be better than not having your plugins?

 

I downloaded again all the plugins that didn't work... It was boring but necessarely. Thx everybody for your help!

 

Your registry settings have been probably changed. No way imo other than re-installing or re-patching.

Back up your registry from time to time.

 

WIN 10 LTSC - try installing that version of windows 10 next time.

...and, yes, everything that DoubleTake stated!

 

Make it a habit to at least create a System Image daily before you go to sleep. You can always keep a couple in between. All you need to do is rename the folder. I do it by adding a numeral at the end.

 

Meanwhile, people with Win7, MacOS, and Linux, are silent and making music.

You can't say there is no choice these days. And it's that choice that makes the difference between having to fiddle with your OS all the time, or fiddling for real.

When the audio companies start dropping support for W7, MacOS here I come! When I get fed up with Apple bs, Linux here I come!

 

Forget Windows shit altoguether. Let's play like big boys and go Linux. https://audiosex.pro/threads/solution-to-microsoft-visual-c-problems.41936/page-2#post-364181

 

What do you yo to make system images? I have just been using Easeus Todo backup because i bought it years ago and continue to update it. The paid version is a faster backup and allows a bit of customization, but I am wondering about other ways. I tried a few free ones in the past but had unsuccessful restores....but that was long ago. I have used cloning, too but that eats too much space considering I've never had any Todo fail me, and I have restored over a hundred times with it. (mostly in the past 3 years customizing system and DAW stuff and using SSD. It's become easier to just do a restore than to spend time "fixing" a bad install or update or etc.
So, what do you use?

 

@DoubleTake I use the Windows 7 System Image option. Control Panel>Back up and Restore>Create a system image. I keep a @TB HDD just for it. What I do is the following. I keep a "virgin" image which consist of a fresh install of Windows without the updates. I also keep another with all the updates up to the date of install plus system tweaks. Those 2 are untouchable. I then proceed to create system images EVERY night. I always erase the oldest one for space reasons. They tend to use around 160 GB. I also have a 500GB SD which I use to create system images every 15 days just in case my HDD takes a dive. Finally I use Paragon to clone my C: every week onto a 2 TB WD40efrx which is as reliable as they come. I have 3 different ways of recovering my system.

 

Redundancy I also keep virgin, updated, tweaked backups.. They take so little room and can save so much time.
I am not as thorough as you, but keep a simple spreadsheet log on another drive, but copied to "Documents" folder so it is a match for that current setup. Due to compression my OS disk (around 80 Gig) take up about 37 Gig, but still take less than 20 minutes for to create a backup or restore one. So, usually if I make a mistake it's a 30 minute process to be right back where i was
My redundancy is between 2 computers- just manually copying backups from each to the other ... and one more drive where I keep extra copies of early backups. The big redundant transfers I do run at night, as those slow things down, but normal backups don't have much impact. I do not do computer intense stuff while they run, but with modern processors and transfer speeds, I usually forget it is running and later notice... "Ahh..backup is done".

 

why update







ahh its an online workstation rofl:

 

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aKhry did you use hosts file

 

Windo10 there we go

remote deactivating software for suspicious behaviour, welcome to the new world

 

Are you familiar with Incremental or Differential backups? and if so, what is your reasoning for not doing that?

 

I am currently using Clonezilla on a USB stick for backups. I've been using Symantec Ghost for decades and miss it much, but it cannot deal with ACPI enabled drives. At least the version I have. I wonder if there's newer Ghost that can do it. I'm planning on testing Acronis True Image, since I've heard a lot of good things about it.

 

Of course I'm familiar with incremental backups. Are you familiar with the System Image creation process in Windows? If you are you should know that you can't do it incrementally, in fact unless you rename the previous one it will get overwritten. By the way, where have I said I DON'T do incremental backups? Where?

 

Never had a single issue with Windows 10 updates.
Everything is working fine.

 

The fact that you said you create a system image every night that is around 160GB and you delete the oldest image for space reasons.

Also, didn't you just answer the question yourself? You asked me "where have I said I DON'T do incremental backups? Where?," but in the same statement you say Windows 7 backup can't do incremental...

On a side note, Windows 7 backup is supposed to do incremental image, but from what I have seen rarely does without user intervention or registry editing. So you saying it doesn't do incremental is not entirely accurate.

Wouldn't it be better to just have one full image that always stays at 160GB and another image with differential data that contains only files that have changed since the initial full backup? Now you only ever need to worry about two images that never have to be deleted until the differential image grows to a large size, then you just do another full image overwriting it and starting the differential image over.

Of course you would have to not use Windows 7 backup to do that.