HarryTri

1) Are the contents of the restore point folders blue or grey? 2) Is the option "Colored display of encrypted or NTFS compressed folders" enabled in the Folder Options?

Have you turned System Restore completely off for a while?

Yes but it may solve the problem, if your system works in a proper way you can try it and make new restore points afterwards (also you can make a disk image with suitable software which will contain the old restore points).

I mean the whole thing won't work without sysprep /generalize. That's what Microsoft says. Once I tried to move an imaged disc of Windows XP to a VM and it didn't even boot, it was always giving a BSOD. Of course the similarity or dissimilarity of the old and the new hardware is an important factor. That's all I know and have to say.

It won't work without sysprep /generalize (at least that's what theory says).

Try to disable System Restore and enable it again after rebooting.

I do my own benchmark tests with Novabench 4. Of course the Meltdown and Spectre patches may have different effect on performance from processor to processor.

So you agree with him, jaclaz? I had the impression that you didn't.

I have installed these patches together with Intel's microcode update (with the VMware method) and observed no noticeable difference in my system's performance. My processor is Intel Core i5 3230M.

Aren't you a bit overexaggerating? I don't use the cloud but I am not in the dust also.

I totally agree about backing up your data but I still don't like the idea of viruses, trojan horses etc. making party in my system.

A clean install is always the best solution when something goes wrong without logical explanation.

Spectre and Meltdown are dangerous vulnerabilities and the issue is them to be mitigated before they are really exploited.

Yes but the cloud gives access to your personals and sensitives to those that host them...

Try to make a new user account and check if it works correctly.

You obviously refer to the 64 MB NTFS log file which is a part of the NTFS structure, you should let it alone.

You will get the update automatically sooner or later (about the other question I suppose there must be a resume function but I'm not sure).

If you try it on a computer that Windows 10 have been already installed before note that since Windows 8 the Product Key is hardcoded in the BIOS.

Voted mostly for the good link (don't believe that you can clear anything on Windows 10, you may clean it from your system but, thanks to "telemetry", it will still exist on Microsoft's servers).

The shortcuts doesn't normally disappear when you unmount a volume, except if it is a bug of Windows 7 which I don't have. That's all I can say.

You didn't understand I'm afraid. BitDefender is an antivirus program that is installed on Windows by the user, you or someone else must have installed it and its installation must have been corrupted, you should uninstall it and reinstall it again from the beginning if you want it.

Well, I once tried to install Windows XP on Windows 98SE in the same partition and it was catastrophic, of course I have probably done some mistakes because Widows XP looked for their files in the Windows 98SE systemroot (Windows) folder...

BitDefender is a well known antivirus program which has nothing to do with Windows Defender which is implemented in Windows. You must have a corrupt installation of BitDefender in your system.

Oh, I didn't realize that the OP wanted to install both OSes on the same partition (which Microsoft always said that it isn't supported).

As jaclaz says you must install the older OS first when you install multiple Windows versions for multiboot, so much I know.