Can I delete exactly 1 certian System Restore Point?

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Frank Callone

Ok, I can list all currently available System restore Points and I can define how much space is
reserved for SRPs. But can I delete one particular SRP e.g. number 23 ?

Or at least delete the oldest 7 out of 14 available SRPs ?

If yes: how?

Frank
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555367
So far I haven't found one to remove "specific" SRP dates or times but the
above link will show you how to get rid of the older ones.

Nota Bene: I'm not sure if this applies for everyone but I've found that
once a Restore Point has been used, it can't be used again. Is this so?

Secondly, as far as alotted space for System Restore ... I don't think it
can be change but according to an older article from PC Magazine, it was
determined by available drive space.

Hope this helped.

-Mark
 
Ok, I can list all currently available System restore Points and I can define how much space is
reserved for SRPs. But can I delete one particular SRP e.g. number 23 ?

Or at least delete the oldest 7 out of 14 available SRPs ?

If yes: how?

Frank
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I fail to understand the fascination some people have with system
restore. Sometimes the less we know, the more we tend to tinker with
something that is probably working just fine. The whole concept of
restore points seems to have been well thought out and works just fine
if you leave it alone and let it do it's thing.

You could learn where and how restore points are stored and delete one
or several by just removing files, but why would you want to do
that?

If you use Google to search for: windows xp system restore points

You can spend half a day reading about restore points, experimenting,
possibly even breaking your system beyond recovery.

I encourage you to read and understand the process, then use your
knowledge and the tools to set up your system to protect yourself.
There are configuration options. You may be running without the
protection of restore points right now and not even know it, or maybe
they are all failing. I would check into it after you read about it.

Speaking for myself, I would be most amused if you come back some day
and said you manually tried to work around the built in restore point
features, suddenly now your system is broken and now you desperately
need help.
 
If your partition is FAT32 I know you can
open the "System Volume Information" folder,
then click on the "-Restore" folder and in the right
hand column click on the restore point you want to
delete, right click and select delete.

Open up System Restore and you should no longer
see the date you picked as having a restore point
available.

I have not tried this with an NTFS partition.
 
Frank said:
Ok, I can list all currently available System restore Points and I can
define how much space is reserved for SRPs. But can I delete one
particular SRP e.g. number 23 ?

Or at least delete the oldest 7 out of 14 available SRPs ?

If yes: how?
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No. You can delete all of the System Restore points or all but the last one.

MVP Bert Kinney on System Restore - http://bertk.mvps.org/html/vista.html
Adjusting Disk Space - http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspacev.html
MVP John Barnett - Decrease Storage Space Allocated To System Restore -
http://tinyurl.com/2f4ga9

Malke
 
Frank Callone said:
Ok, I can list all currently available System restore Points and I can
define how much space is
reserved for SRPs. But can I delete one particular SRP e.g. number 23 ?

Or at least delete the oldest 7 out of 14 available SRPs ?

If yes: how?

Frank
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I use for this particular purpose an exclusive free ( french, but I think
the latest version is in english too ) program named RestorWin.
My version is 1.3 and I use it already for 2 years and I am very
enthousiastic about it. It allows making restorepoints and deleting each
point individually. More configuration is possible. The size of the program
is only about 200 kb and it is said to be NOT suitable for Vista, only XP
For some reasons is the french server of the maker not available for quit
some time, but via google I managed to get another download of this progarm
recently.(version 1.3 bibi )
Just give it a try and I am sure you will be sold.
gigobert
 
Eric

Read the last post by Joseph in your link! It does not say you can do what
Frank wants! You can't!


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Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Jose

"The whole concept of restore points seems to have been well thought out
and works just fine if you leave it alone and let it do it's thing." No one
told the programmers at Symantec!

"You could learn where and how restore points are stored and delete one or
several by just removing files," -not a smart move!


--


Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Frank said:
Ok, I can list all currently available System restore Points and I
can define how much space is reserved for SRPs. But can I delete one
particular SRP e.g. number 23 ?

Or at least delete the oldest 7 out of 14 available SRPs ?

If yes: how?

Frank
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No.
 
Ok, I can list all currently available System restore Points and I can define how much space is
reserved for SRPs. But can I delete one particular SRP e.g. number 23 ?

Or at least delete the oldest 7 out of 14 available SRPs ?
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No, you can do neither of those things. You have three choices:

1. Delete them all.

2. Delete all but the most recent.

3. Delete none.
 
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