Deleting old system restore points

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I'm using a 6 week old computer running XP Home SP1. I have System
Restore enabled, with it set to use the maximum disk space available. I
just looked, and the restore points from the first day I hooked up the
computer are still there. When will Windows XP start to automatically
delete those? After a while these restore points start to take up a lot of
hard drive space. I know how to delete the restore points manually, but I'd
rather let XP do it. If it ever does.
 
It will start to delete the old when it reaches the set point of your hard
drive. If it is set to 100 mb it won't delete till that is reached.
 
I just checked. Mine was set to 9000MB.

Nick Burns said:
It will start to delete the old when it reaches the set point of your hard
drive. If it is set to 100 mb it won't delete till that is reached.
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Go into System restore and set the slider bar to minimum,
in the System Restore settings, left page,
highlight the drive and click the settings button.

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History Fan,
Windows Xp will never delete it, if you have set it to the maximum disk
space available, it will start to do so when there will be no more space on
your hard drive, so set it to say... 10% of your hard drive free space,
which is reasonable. If you have 20GB, set it to 1.5GB or less(to have most
restore points), if you want to save space, I recommend to set it to around
200mb, you should be able to recover for about one week.
If the C:\_Restore exeeds the specified space, windows xp will start to
delete the oldest restore points. In other words, when it reaches 200mb, it
will start to delete the oldest data in C:\_restore.
 
300-400Mb should be ok - that will give you at least
two\three weeksworth depending how many manual points you
make - if you use Sys Rest. you don't want to go too far
back anyway as you'll have to Re-install any Software and
Updates which were installed after the Restore Date

Lesley
 
That's what I said, about 10% should be enough, this is about 7GB of free
space(10% of the free space, if you have 10GB left, then 1gb should be
enough)
But it also depends on time you need to restore(again as precaution). It
would be wise to have the capacity for at least a full program and 200mb is
not enough, so if you want to restore for about 3 weeks with full program
reserve, set the restore to about 2GB.
Sincerely,
P.I
 
Hi,
I'm using a 6 week old computer running XP Home SP1. I have System
Restore enabled, with it set to use the maximum disk space available. I
just looked, and the restore points from the first day I hooked up the
computer are still there. When will Windows XP start to automatically
delete those?
Click to expand...

When the space allotted to it is full. The oldest restore points will
automatically be removed. You can adjust the size allotted under the
control panel/system/sr tab/settings. The more you store on the drive, the
larger the restore points will be. Choose your space allotment wisely.
After a while these restore points start to take up a lot of
hard drive space. I know how to delete the restore points manually, but I'd
rather let XP do it. If it ever does.
Click to expand...

There are three ways to easily remove restore points (you cannot do this
selectively).

1) Start/run cleanmgr.exe (disk cleanup), there is a "clean up" button on
the "more options" tab to remove all but the newest restore point.

2) Control Panel/System/System Restore tab, go to settings and reduce the
amount of space allotted to System Restore. This will remove older restore
points, how many depends on how much space you require for a point, and how
much space you leave.

3) Control Panel/System/System Restore tab, click the "turn off system
restore on all drives" box. This will eliminate all restore points. Once
reenabled, the system will begin creating new ones. You should reboot
inbetween doing this.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone



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