Try System Restore for Windows 10 - Comments Page 2

Kawika 56:
I used to have problems like yours at certain times with Win 98 and XP, but less so with Windows 10. The best approach is to be sure that restore points are created often enough that there will not have been so many accumulated changes in your configuration when the time comes that you need to do a restore. It's good practice to proactively create a restore point periodically, choosing the time to do that when it is clear the PC has been working well. Afterwards, go ahead and let Disk Cleanup remove all the previous ones, to insure you will have space for subsequent points that get created automatically by the system as installations and other changes occur.

By the way, the older the restore point, the less likely the computer can be successfully restored with it. You can give older ones a try but if you already found a newer one didn't work, don't bother trying any that were created before then. The tasks performed in a restore are very complicated, especially because it leaves intact as much as possible that the user would not want (or need) undone. I think the various older points are dependent on each other and that is why you can't eliminate any in the sequence and expect the others to work. The user is required to delete all of them together (except the most recent one) as a way of preventing you from getting stuck with an unworkable system. For the same reason, when a restore fails, it aborts everything it attempted to do and then reassures you there were no changes.

I echo what Brian B wrote. Windows System Restore helped me with Windows 8 and older, but with Windows 10 I use Macrium Reflect for image backups. I make both incremental and differential backups and I also backup separately my data using other software.

Recently I also did an in-place Windows re-installation more than once and it was successful each time.