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I installed Win 10 AU on two systems – both flawlessly. Download took around 30 min and installation was 45 min on each. These are 6 month old Dell XPS-8900 which came with Win 10 installed. System protection was turned off so that I had to turn it back on and create a new system restore point. SystemImageBackup was not remembered (not in system restore list). Created new image backup and all is well.
Adjusted start menu and privacy settings and all is well on both systems.

You might try the following…

thanks again. Here is what happened.

Prior to the reg update, SPP/Clients contained: \?Volume(70edobce- …87d4);OS (C%3A)
After running all three cmds, SPP/Clients contained: 1
At that point I created a manual restore point and also manually ran the SR task. Both restore points are now listed.
Current usage started at 15MB and slowly increased to 65MB (this should be >1GB)

I then restarted the system:
After restart, SPP/Clients contained: \?Volume(70edobce- …87d4);OS (C%3A) … ???
Current usage is now up to 90MB.
Manually created 3rd restore point: All three restore points now appear including the one I created by running the SR task. Usage is now up to 123MB and still increasing.

Still not sure what is happening but at least I seem to have multiple restore points. Why the storrage used is so very low is a mystery to me.
I will monitor over the next few days to see what is going on.

thanks again for all your help.

I have CCleaner and looked at Tools/System restore. There are 3 entry’s, 1- 11/8/15 Scheduled, 2- 12/7/15 Scheduled, 3- 12/8/15 ( the one I made before installing the regular scheduled WU patches ).
Evidently my system has a System Restore task to run once monthly but it does not make a restore point when installing the updates like win 7 does. Again, this is still on 10240 not upgraded yet to 1511.

CC Cleaner shows only the one task I created yesterday after discarding/disable/enabling System Protection.
The amount of space used continues to increase by 500-750MB each morning (after my scheduled SR task runs)

thanks for being so helpful, Jwoods. I am reluctant to refresh/restore Windows 10 as I see other people on various forums with the same complaints about system restore. In fact I set up the same hardware/software for my wife last week also and her computer displays the same symptoms. I think that this is a bug in Windows 10 system restore. the bug seems to be that restore points are not added to the list (and therefore not available) unless they are created manually in the restore application. I noticed today that each time I installed an update that the amount of space in use for system restore increased. The listing is just not being updated.

@jwoods
I guess I should have been a bit more descriptive. On 10240, I can make manual restore points and any HP updates trigger a restore point, BUT, any win 10 updates do not trigger a restore point.

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Interesting. when I first installed my system last week several restore points were made for the windows updates; these later disappeared!

I deleted all restore points, turned system protection off and then back on. Nothing changed. I can still manually create restore points. the task scheduler runs automatically (or I run the task manually). The task schedular history indicates that the restore points are made but they do not show up in the list of restore points – only the ones I create manually thru the application. Strange!

I have the same version of Chrome, albeit on 8.1, which works fine. Try uninstalling and then reinstall. There is a newer version available, which may well fix your problem.

Thanks for comments. Newer version did not help but I did stumble on and resolve the problem.

For may years I have the DPI setting set high because of my eyesight problem; I increased the DPI setting from 96 to 144. Just recently this caused the problem with Chrome, RoboForm and Pandora. I discovered that by turning off “DPI display scaling” for the above programs in the program compatibility dialog that the problem was resolved. Strange that DPI scaling would cause my problem.! Also strange that the problem started recently!

Thanks to all of you who offered sugestions for my queston about 20 minute delay on waking up from sleep which I posted 3/3/14.
The problem turned out to be a display monitor with was failing. Replacing it resolved all of the problems.

Thanks for the support.
I will check into http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Learn-how-to-install-Windows-Vista-Service-.

I stumbled upon Vista SP2 iso#342267 in the mydigital life forum. The files appear to be one day earlier than my SP2 files.
I would like to find out who created this iso and if it really is SP1 and SP2 slipstreamed onto Vista prior to using it for a repair install.

Does anyone know anything about it?

Thanks for the support.
I have already done what mrjimphelps suggested; basically turned off cpu and monttor sleep leaving only disk sleep.
I am convinced that the problem is very old 24″ LCD monitor; the graphics card is 8 months old.
I plan to swap monitors to see what happens.

The “Final” version, 2.0 does not have the slipstream option. See also http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/53735.aspx#imgn_1.
Any idea who I could contact about this?

Thanks for the reference. I was aware of this approach for slipstreaming but have seen bad things said about it.
I will check it out again.

There is another reference on the page you referenced to slipstream that I had not previously seen: http://www.ehow.com/how_8645148_create-vista-sp2-recovery-disk.html.
I wil check that out also.

“no problem if they remember to save them first”

On my Vista Home Premium 64 bit sytem with Office Pro 2003 I am unable to open either .xlss or .docx files even if I save them first.
Most of these are downloaded from Google Docs so that may have something to do with the problem.

Does anyone know of a program or web site to convert these formats to ones readable by Office 2003? I have tried several but they do not work well.

Problem resolved The software does not handle non-default dpi settings properly.
I was using 120dpi. When I changed back to the windows default, 96dpi, the error message went away.

The program still does not run but that is another story.

Thaks to those who commented.

Thanks for suggestion.

Yes both the software and driver are (supposed to be) 64-bit compatible.