EASY question for the MVP's about system restore.

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Michael L. Arends

Gotta Love that system restore. It has saved my Bacon on SEVERAL times.

However I have a short statement and then a question,

I am what my wife calls a bit of a neat freak as far as my computer
goes, in that I don't like wasted space even though I have ample room
left. I Often use the Built in windows disk cleanup utility, and in turn
use the "more options" part that handles 'system restore'.

My understanding is that by using this, it will delete all but the last
restore point. Ok.. That's fine.

I was just wondering if there was anyway or any place, I could define
for it to delete all but the oh ..say last "THREE" restore points?

I know it runs naturally usually once a day. But I do a lot of
installing and uninstalling of software. And after all is said and done,
and I do my disk cleanup, it would be nice to know that my last 3
restore points are still there.

I'm running winXP Home, 512 megs of Ram, and an 80gigHD on my laptop.

Thanks for any comments in advance.

Michael
 
One cannot selectively retain or delete restore points....its all or nothing.

How to Turn On and Turn Off System Restore in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310405&Product=winxp

Microsoft Windows XP System Restore
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...y/en-us/dnwxp/html/windowsxpsystemrestore.asp

System Restore for Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner.com/xp_restore.htm

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Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Gotta Love that system restore. It has saved my Bacon on SEVERAL times.
|
| However I have a short statement and then a question,
|
| I am what my wife calls a bit of a neat freak as far as my computer
| goes, in that I don't like wasted space even though I have ample room
| left. I Often use the Built in windows disk cleanup utility, and in turn
| use the "more options" part that handles 'system restore'.
|
| My understanding is that by using this, it will delete all but the last
| restore point. Ok.. That's fine.
|
| I was just wondering if there was anyway or any place, I could define
| for it to delete all but the oh ..say last "THREE" restore points?
|
| I know it runs naturally usually once a day. But I do a lot of
| installing and uninstalling of software. And after all is said and done,
| and I do my disk cleanup, it would be nice to know that my last 3
| restore points are still there.
|
| I'm running winXP Home, 512 megs of Ram, and an 80gigHD on my laptop.
|
| Thanks for any comments in advance.
|
| Michael
 
Hi Michael,

Sorry, but no, that cannot be defined. One thing you may want to do instead
of removing them with the disk cleanup utility is to instead limit the size
of the system restore volume. By doing so, you will automatically remove
older points. Access the settings on the SR tab of system properties, and
reduce the size from the allotted 12% to a more reasonable (as defined by
you) size. For instance, I only allow it 5% of the drive space, this gives
me 5 SR points (currently using 6.3GB of an 8GB volume).

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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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