Today's weather, maybe...

Earlier this morning, I found a problem in this Windows 8, with some of the Apps not opening. By the time I found out what was wrong, and then got it corrected, by 'refreshing' my computer, I had to spend most of the rest of the day replacing all the programs - Microsoft now calls these Apps - that it deleted while cleaning out everything that isn't native to Windows 8 system files. It also wiped out all the security updates since day one as well, so those all had to be restored, about 400 Mb of them. It's been an eventful day, just to get a couple of malfunctioning Apps working on the Start Screen.

And during all of this, I found that System Restore does not seem to be regularly saving periodic Restore Points as it used to do in good old Windows 7 and Windows (Ugh!) Vista..... If this is Progress, it needs a Suggestion Box.
Are we looking at the Decline and Fall of the Microsoft Empire? .....Maybe....

Note for Uncle Ron, and others with this same problem (see his comment below):-

You have to uncheck some sneaky selections that are being included in the usual installer texts, to avoid getting stuck with unwanted features, because
Google doesn't like taking 'no' for an answer, and they are very pushy.

Here's the default installer window. Please note you're set for "Express Install"
meaning everything they want to throw at you. Click on "Custom install" instead, and down below, uncheck those little boxes for Google Chrome......

So here's what you want it to look like, before you click on "Next". This way, all you get is what you thought you were getting in the beginning.