System Restore Question

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How can I delete all but the last 2 or 3 System Restore points? I know I
cann turn them all off but I want to save the last ones done earlier in the
month.

Pat
 
How can I delete all but the last 2 or 3 System Restore points? I know I
cann turn them all off but I want to save the last ones done earlier in the
month.
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You can *not* do that. You have only three choices:

1. Delete all of them.

2. Delete all but the most recent one.

3. Delete none of them.
 
Pat said:
How can I delete all but the last 2 or 3 System Restore points? I know I
cann turn them all off but I want to save the last ones done earlier in
the month.

Pat
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Pat:

You can delete all but the last Restore Point using "Disk Cleanup"

Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup

If asked, select "Files from all users on this computer".

The select drive dropbox will start, so select C: .

Once that's done the dialogue box will show and there will be a "More
Options" tab at the top. Click it, then click the "Clean Up.." button in the
"System Restore and Shadow Copies" section. Click any necessary OKs. The
program will clean up the disk and will remove excess Restore Points.

Saucy
 
More accurately it will remove all but the most recent one. This will not
accomplish what the user has asked to do.

The only way to achieve that would be to reduce the allocated space to a
point where only the last 2-3 would fit using the vssadmin command line
prompt. First, the user would need to determine how much space each point is
using, then calculate the amount of space needed and reduce the space
allocation to something just above that figure.

Click start, type CMD and right click the start menu entry, then choose "run
as administrator" (you cannot do this without elevating even from an admin
account). From the prompt, run:

vssadmin list shadowstorage

This will give you an idea of the currently allocated space. Next run:

vssadmin list shadows

and make note of the number of them. Divide this into the used storage space
noted in the first command to get the amount of space per point. Double or
triple this as appropriate and add a little for leeway. Now run:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=c: /on=c: maxsize=<num>mb

Where <num> is the size you want in mb (not gb). This will achieve what the
poster is asking and make it permanent until resized again.

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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
 
I don't mean to hijack the thread but in your opinion, what would be a
typical/reasonable size range for an individual restore point?
I only ask because for the second time now I find Vista is making restore
points so large it can only keep 4 of them (4.6GB) at a time in the 5.5GB
space auto-allocated on a 150GB drive.

By comparison Windows 7 has 5 restore points occupying 1GB out of the 1.5GB
allocated on a 50GB drive.
 
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