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To revert the right click context menu behavior in Windows 11 back to Win 10 style, copy this into a text reg file and import:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32]
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That article on ten forums is just about perfect. You can do this! 🙂
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A repair install might solve most or perhaps all of the problems. Worth a try and won’t hurt!
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(Continued from above)
That size is a problem because in your backup, you’re trying (rightly so) to get a System Image. VSS needs to take snapshots of all the partitions on the root drive, and it’s failing on that Recovery Partition due to the odd size and the VSS limits imposed on the system.
To solve this, we are going to shrink that volume from 556 MB down to 499 MB exactly. There will be a tiny amount of unused space when you are done at the very end of the drive: it’s safe to ignore that forever.
Once you’ve installed EaseUS from above, open it and locate the partition we need to shrink.
Hint: it’s the only one that on your system is 556 MB.
Right click that partition and select Resize/Move:
In the new screen, change the size from 556 down to 499 and click OK.
Now at the upper left corner of EaseUS, click the Execute 1 Operation button and click accept/yes to the screens that follow.
That’s it! Close EaseUS and Uninstall it if you wish.
REBOOT your computer, then try the backup again. I am fairly confident it should work now.
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I took a closer look at your original post and found what I suspect is the culprit.
Reposting your original screenshot of your Disk Management view and I’ve highlighted the problem:
Short explanation: the special Recovery Partition needs to be just under 500 MB. ( I like to set mine to 499 exactly.) The reasons for this are directly related to the minimum free space required for a volume by VSS and the fact that the contents of that drive currently take up roughly 410MB, leaving only (in your specific case) 141MB free.
For volumes less than 500 megabytes, the minimum is 50 megabytes of free space.
For volumes more than 500 megabytes, the minimum is 320 megabytes of free space.Shrinking that volume may sound counter-intuitive, but it does not need more space, and shrinking it to 499MB will leave 85MB free, more than enough, while pushing it down to the lower VSS requirement of 50MB free instead of 320 MB.
The easiest way to shrink this is to download EaseUS partition manager from OlderGeeks website. That version they are hosting is a safe build, and free from ad-ware and other things you don’t need. Grab that, install it, and don’t bother registering it or upgrading to the paid Pro level (the free version is enough for this task.)
Link: https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=441
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It is my measured and professional opinion that chkdsk (as of this writing – and assuming you are patched on any currently supported version of Windows 10 through February 2022) is both safe and sometimes necessary on SSD’s to fix file issues as well as mis-reported free space issues. Among other things it finds and repairs situations where allocated free space is mis-reported to the kernel.
I believe that defragging is not so great for SSD’s, although there is some controversy on that topic. The optimization that Windows 10 does for SSD’s is called “trimming.” Which is good and required for their health.
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