Should I Risk this Reset?

[goya flensburgh]

Okay, so recently, after using Revert8Plus, a Windows 7 theme for Windows 10 and up, an update just divebombed me out of nowhere despite myself explicitly pausing them and Windows 10 recently having it's support cut off (I guess I just held off the last one too long or something.) So anyway, I tried re-installing Revert8Plus afterwards and unsurprisingly, everything was broken. I've been thinking of using the Media Creation tool to just have a clean slate for my installation and I have everything backed up, my main concern is if I accidentally lose my programme data while doing so for something that might not even work when I try it. I really want my theme back but I also have things set up in a way I might not be able to get back once I make the reset.

Should I risk it?

UPDATE!
It's working now! viewtopic.php?t=976

[lakes]

I say risk the reset. It's better than have a functioning computer than one that looks nice but is broken beyond repair.

[Patachoo]

I'm sorry for you for it :( I'm also using Revert8Plus and I never got this problem, by chance maybe try to contact the staff members about it ? Maybe they can try to help and find a solution to avoid a reset

[Daniele63]

What I would do is backup everything of value on another drive, including the program data that you need to keep, and do a fresh reinstall of the OS. Alternatively, you can try to do a system restore if you have not turned off that option, I'm pretty sure revert8plus will create one for you when you first install it.

[Daniele63]

Another thing you can do is try to fix it with /sfc scannow in Powershell

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DISM /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
sfc /scannow

Type these commands one by one and it will attempt to fix any registry bugs that you have

[Vaking Voda]

Also if you are like Daniele63 and have 6tb or some other big amount of storage, you could simply back up your entire C:\ drive instead of just important files…