Creators update: now send page or link by email greyed out

the update didn't create a restore point as the restore protection setting had been turned off which I didn't do!

System Restore is only relevant within a major build. It cannot, and never will, restore anything from one major build to a previous major build.

So by design, and quite rightly, all restore points are lost when you upgrade.

I agree with you it's annoying and seems wrong that it is disabled when you upgrade.

How can you revert to the previous build? That's done by a totally different procedure e.g. via the Advanced startup options - 'Go back to the previous build'. This process uses Windows.old, which exists for 10 days after an upgrade.

Please see
Go Back to the Previous Version of Windows in Windows 10 Installation Upgrade Tutorials

(Feel free to browse and search the extensive Tutorials section:
Windows 10 Tutorial Index Tutorials
)

the send link or page by email command is greyed out.

- I'm not sure quite what you mean by that. Screenshot please?

Hi thanks, I don't use Livemail. However these links may help you to set this up again.

That seems to be in IE.
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fi...rnet-explorer/
and
It would seem you should be able to sort that out in Default Programs, Associate a file type or protocol (in Control Panel)
Send page option in IE 11 - Microsoft Community
or within IE
Internet Explorer: How to enable feature?

FYI I did not opt to "upgrade": I got a message that updates were about to be installed but this would take longer than usual. If I had known what Microsoft were doing I would have declined and turned off updates

It's unfortunate that in Home (I will assume that's what you have) you lack the controls available to Pro. I have updates set to Notify me so I can always (so far!) see the updates and choose when to apply them. Further, it is possible to delay upgrades for up to a year.

This appears to be very poor marketing strategy by MS- by default, updates are applied and your PC will restart if necessary without warning, bound to create acrimony, especially as it's not overtly stated that's what happens.

You do have Active Hours available to you to limit unexpected restarts.

These unexpected events can also compromise your backup strategy, depending on how often you update your disk image, for example. (We strongly advocate disk imaging- this allows you quickly and easily to go back to a previous working configuration (or even a Windows build) without technical help, even if your PC becomes unusable, or your disk fails). E.g. Macrium Reflect (free).

Had you used disk imaging, that might have helped somewhat, albeit you would then have to block the upgrade (using Hide Windows updates).

Ah, so you're saying you don't now know how to access the Control Panel.
Some people with 1709 seem confused about that.
This can easily be resolved by searching for that.

E.g.
Windows key + S, type Control, click Control Panel

Windows key + R, type Control Panel
Powershell prompt, type Control Panel

And if you have a proper start menu - Classic Shell (free) - it's there on the start menu... easy!

You might also try searching for
protocol
in Settings

And in Settings, try the two links, bottom right here:

BJLilac said:

Sorry but you misunderstood.
I can access Control Panel and step through the options but at the final selection it then takes me to the awful Settings App and the Custom Settings page has gone...
...It seems that MS have removed the functions of Control Panel and bolted the front end of that to their awful settings app instead and functions have gone in the process.

@BJLilac, the title of your thread says 'Creators Update' but I think you must mean 'Fall Creators Update' (version 1709).

@dalchina can be excused for misunderstanding as he has avoided updating from 1703 to 1709. He hasn't (yet) experienced the big migration of functionality from Control Panel into the Settings app that comes with the FCU.

Yes, many of the links in Control Panel that used to open a Control Panel page have been switched to opening the Settings equivalent pages in the Fall Creators Update. The one you want is one of those, there is now no way in either Settings or Control Panel to open that particular page.

That doesn't mean it has been removed though, it's just been made inaccessible by normal means. It can still be opened directly in 1709 if you know its CLSID. Your page can be opened by running (either from WinKey+R or in a shortcut) the following command:

explorer shell:::{2559a1f7-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}



Other CLSIDs for pages 'missing' since Fall Creators Update (1709) can be found here...

CLSID Key (GUID) Shortcuts List for Windows 10