vss snapshots

Windows 11’s new Point-in-time Restore can use up to 2% of the system drive—capped at 50GB—to maintain rolling snapshots of Windows, applications, settings, and local files. The feature arrives for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 through July’s KB5101650 cumulative update, but the alarming...

Microsoft has added point-in-time restore to Windows 11 version 24H2 and later, giving Home, Pro, and Enterprise PCs a built-in way to roll back the operating system, apps, settings, and local files to an automatically captured earlier state from the previous 72 hours. It is a recovery feature...

Microsoft’s April 2026 Windows security update adds the third-party psmounterex.sys kernel driver to the Microsoft Vulnerable Driver Blocklist, causing backup-image mounting and some VSS snapshot workflows to fail on affected Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems. The breakage is...