Zygy said:
I was advised to create a Systems Restore after scanning my computer for
all the known invaders, which I do once a week. That has created a lot of
Systems Restore entries, since I have now been doing that for few years, so
there must be hundreds of them. Can anyone advise me where I should look
for the past Restore Points so that I could delete most of them?
System restore will only keep restore points for a maximum of 90 days, which
is itself way too long, on a first in / first out basis. It really only is
useful though going back one or two weeks at the most. Also the amount of
space allocated to system restore will have an impact on how many restore
points are kept. The default is 12% of the drive which again is way too
much. Each of the restore points is chained together so if there is a
problem in one of them it won't work. Having too many restore points often
results in corruption so when you try to use SR it doesn't work. System
restore
You should decrease the amount of space allocated to SR so that only about
1-2 weeks worth of restore points are kept. Do this by going to System
Restore Properties. Right Click on My Computer | Properties | System
Restore. Turn off SR on any data only drives. Adjust the other drives that
are being monitored to reduce the amount of space allocated to it.
Here is a link to an excellent site with detailed information on system
restore.
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html
System restore is not a backup solution. It makes a copy of the registry
and backs up certain system files but it does not backup your data.
Hopefully you have some other means for this and always have a full and
complete backup of important data.
