Windows restore breaks MSFS

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Brief description of the issue:

I had a problem unrelated to MSFS which was fixable by using Windows 11 system restore. The restore was back to a date just before the WU13 release. The restore worked but broke MSFS - I then had a message from MSFS that the program was incompatible with a 64 bit processor (sorry I don’t have the exact msg). I got round the problem by uninstalling then reinstalling MSFS, but unfortunately despite specifying correct folders it downloaded around 160GB

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Detailed steps to reproduce the issue encountered:

Restore Windows 10 or 11 system to a date just before recent update, using ‘System Restore’. Then attempt to run MSFS. This is an MS Store MSFS using a PC with Windows 11

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PC specs and/or peripheral set up if relevant:

Asus Laptop F15 running Windows 11

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:

1.32.7.0


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Did another system restore, back just one day when MSFS version the same. This time MSFS worked without being uninstalled/reinstalled. This perhaps proves that a system restore that goes back beyond an MSFS release crashes MSFS, but is OK if system restore is back to the same release level.

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