What way is that to manage updates?

Well, microsofts update delivery has become quite robust over the last few years, although still not great for some obviously, but it used to be alot worse.

How come Android updates [inc feature updates] without this nonsense?

It uses a linux like system for update delivery which has a very robust update system also the structure of the OS is such that (generally speaking) means that if one part fails the rest of the OS can still function, (I have bad audio drivers crash windows…)

Why doesn’t Microsoft make a downloadable, safe tool, that will repair the installed version completely, to the exact version it was [inc all needed updates], by removing all corruptions and inserting necessary missing files and safely repairing the registry, while at the same time preserving user files?

That’s ALMOST what this app does, if MS pushes this in the direction of the OSXs disk util it could become a very handy tool.

But to the question, are all your motherboard & BIOS drivers up to date?

It recommends a 4gb drive but I’ve seen people say that it’s actually 4.2-5.1 depending on various factors, so to stay on the safe side I recommend 8gb.

My apologize for the inconvenience, it does say in the dialog box in step 7 it does say in clear terms that all data will be deleted that all data should be backed up, although my guide fairly easy in terms of steps you should always read each dialogs yourself and fully understand what it is your doing. Creating a bootable disk ALMOST ALWAYS deletes and reformats the data on the host disk.

I hope you get your data back.

Hi name99, it’s an interesting question, there used to be a portable version of windows called windows to go (or something similar) but I don’t think it caught on.

Really what your describing here are key differences between Windows and OS X, tbh OS X is a very resilient, extensible OS and in my opinion Windows has some way to go in terms of end user recovery.

OS X has a lot of features that allow it to work outside its normal operating parameters like booting from USB and it’s excellant recovery options. Windows on the other hand has been playing catch up in these departments, only really having a proper recovery facility since the release of 10, which is the point of this guide to not only make people aware that’s it’s there but how to use it effectively.

It's a feature of windows called User Access Control and is the name for the pop up asking for permission to run an app.

This feature can be disabled which is why I say if.

I agree that that part of the process is important, however there are so many variables to uefi that writing a coherent guide for that would be difficult. Not to mention that screen shotting those steps a more difficult (although obviously not impossible).

But thank you for the feed back, I'll consider it in the future.

They do the same thing essentially, they allow you to boot and recover your windows installation. However there is a one difference and that's that, I believe, the recovery drive tool only gives you the option to create a disk for the computer you are using. It's exactly like the recovery partition that some computers and laptops have.

My guide is quite generic in that you could create the disk for any Windows 10 installation.

Thanks for the question.

Yeah, I used Gaussian blur in Photoshop.