Windows 10 allocated space for system restore suddenly set to 0% (zero) after KB4579311, KB4578968 update

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Today I received an error on my laptop that a volume shadow copy had failed.

"The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because the shadow copy storage could not grow due to a user imposed limit"

I then checked the disk space usage for system protection and found that system protection was still turned on but "Max Usage" was set to 0%.

I checked the system log which dates back until Sep. 1st for other Volsnap errors and did not find any.

The latest Windows Update Logs date from Oct. 17 showing KB4579311, KB4578968 and Adobe Flash Player.

I had noticed that the updates (like others before) did reset the height of my locked taskbar from 2 to 1 which was quite a nuisance.

Changing the system protection settings is a much more critical issue though.

Is it a known issue with the mentioned updates or are there other reasons which may have caused the storage allocation change?

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