System Restore Points

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adyf

Hi,

I have a 120gb hard drive with around 20gb free at any one time. I have
noticed that most of the time I only have one automatically created restore
point. I am aware that the number of restore points is dependant on free hard
drive space, however I had many more available restore points under Windows
XP with same amount of free hard drive space. Is there a way I can increase
the amount of space available to System Restore? I have looked at the
settings and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Hi,

Yes, you can alter the amount of space allotted using vssadmin from the
command prompt. The default is 15%, which would be about 18GB of your hard
drive space. However, if you only have 20GB remaining, then Vista will try
to maintain that as it needs a certain amount of free space for defragging,
paging, indexing, and other system processes. If necessary, space allotted
to other processes may be reduced as a result.

When you check restore points available, first click the line to "choose a
different restore point", click next, then enable the box to show points
older than 5 days. You may find more available than you think.

See this link using vssadmin to change the amount of space allocated to
system restore:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decrease_storage_space-allocated_to_system_restore.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
Hi Rick,

Thanks for the reply. In my case if system restore is set to 15% of hard
drive space then I don't think changing it with 20gb free will help out too
much. I'm interested in your other observation 'choose a different restore
point'. I can't see that option anywhere. I only had one automatically
created restore point, so I created one manually to see if it would give me
that option but I still can't see it.
 
Hi,

I don't get the option to choose a diferent restore point. I see a table
with different restore points and nothing else. If I highlight one then the
next stage is to proceed with the restore.
 
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