My System Restore won't work properly, it gets stuck on Registry when half way through

[Jasmine6]

no recent changes, just wanted to do a System Restore

[WAWood]

@Jasmine6 

A Windows System Restore is  essentially a waste of your time.  Why?

Because basically what happens is that when Windows does an update, it saves of a copy of everything it is updating, replacing, or removing.  That is known as a Restore Point.  It does not save anything of YOURS -- no data, no settings, no applications.

When you do a System Restore, all you are basically doing is backing out a Windows Update.  You are not actually sending the PC back to an earlier date.  So essentially, unless you are trying to back out a Windows Update that did not work, you are wasting your time.

If instead, you are intending to do a Factory Reset -- do NOT do that!  This is NOT a criticism directed at YOU, but I really wish folks would quit routinely doing Factory Resets in attempts to repair an ailing PC. Not only does it rarely fix the PC, if there is an underlying hardware issue with the PC, it will make matters worse by leaving the PC in an unusable state.

The HP Factory Reset function relies critically on the contents of the Recovery partition being intact. If those contents get corrupted, which can happen either due to hard drive failing or due to Win10 Upgrade from an older OS, the reset simply will not work -- and will TRASH the PC in the process.

So, you go from having a SLOW PC, to having NO PC. That's not an improvement.