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System restore can quickly swallow up a large portion of your hard drive.
System restore in Windows 7 is more customisable than before. You can specify how much space is taken by system restore, and how it backs you up.
This guide will walk you through the custom options and show you how to change & limit system restore (yes i am fed up of writing system restore!)
Method 1
Step 1.
Click the Start Orb, right click Computer and select Properties.
Step 2.
In the left hand pane click on System Protection
Step 3.
Under this tab you can start system restore, create a new restore point, and configure the protection settings on all of your drives.
Select the drive you want to change and click Configure.
Step 4.
Under Restore Settings we can specify how system restore backs us up. I recommend leaving the Restore Settings as they are.
Under Disk Space Usage you can see how much space is already allocated for system restore and how much is actually being used. Drag the slider to the amount you’re willing to give away (recommended: 5-8% of your hard drive) and hit Apply.
You can also delete all of the restore points, although not recommended. Read the warning notice carefully.
Method 2.
For all of you geeks out there. There is a command to resize the allowed space for system restore.
Open an elevated command prompt and type;
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=X: /For=X: /Maxsize=ZGB
Where X is the drive you want to change and Z is the number of Gigabytes.
It will reflect in the System Protection configuration window immediately.
Type vssadmin in the command prompt for more information.
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good and easy to follow space saver :D
good and easy to follow space saver :D
good and easy to follow space saver :D
Turning off system restore on drives other than root drive will free space ,but it is recommended to have never disable system restore for OS residing root drive ,system restore will be handy in troubleshooting windows problems.
Turning off system restore on drives other than root drive will free space ,but it is recommended to have never disable system restore for OS residing root drive ,system restore will be handy in troubleshooting windows problems.
Turning off system restore on drives other than root drive will free space ,but it is recommended to have never disable system restore for OS residing root drive ,system restore will be handy in troubleshooting windows problems.
So just how much space does each restore point take up? Interesting that they now let you choose what percent of your hard drive to use..
So just how much space does each restore point take up? Interesting that they now let you choose what percent of your hard drive to use..
So just how much space does each restore point take up? Interesting that they now let you choose what percent of your hard drive to use..
Turning off system restore might save some space in the hard disk but it better to just keep it enabled in case of any Software or windows problems.You can even delete the system restore any time by using TuneUP Utilities Software which comes quiet handy.
Turning off system restore might save some space in the hard disk but it better to just keep it enabled in case of any Software or windows problems.You can even delete the system restore any time by using TuneUP Utilities Software which comes quiet handy.
Turning off system restore might save some space in the hard disk but it better to just keep it enabled in case of any Software or windows problems.You can even delete the system restore any time by using TuneUP Utilities Software which comes quiet handy.
It depends on the size of your system. My system drive is 25GB and each system restore point is around 400MB……i believe that Vista has the same ‘percentage’ meter.
It depends on the size of your system. My system drive is 25GB and each system restore point is around 400MB……i believe that Vista has the same ‘percentage’ meter.
It depends on the size of your system. My system drive is 25GB and each system restore point is around 400MB……i believe that Vista has the same ‘percentage’ meter.
I think you may have misunderstood the guide. It’s to limit the space system restore uses. No mention of turning it off.
CCleaner also has the ability to delete restore points of your choice.
I think you may have misunderstood the guide. It’s to limit the space system restore uses. No mention of turning it off.
CCleaner also has the ability to delete restore points of your choice.
I think you may have misunderstood the guide. It’s to limit the space system restore uses. No mention of turning it off.
CCleaner also has the ability to delete restore points of your choice.
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System restore can be a lifesaver, though it can also eat up your harddrive if left unchecked, making this a handy tool. But just curious, does anybody know a way to make a backup of a system restore point or something like that? I ask because sometimes you have a system restore point which works great and then install a program, which creates more than one system restore point (with the reboots and installing the other parts necessary to work), and then you find out that it gitches up your system but the system restore point you made at the beginning is gone because of all the new ones made during the instalation… *this has unfortunately happened to me several times(.
System restore can be a lifesaver, though it can also eat up your harddrive if left unchecked, making this a handy tool. But just curious, does anybody know a way to make a backup of a system restore point or something like that? I ask because sometimes you have a system restore point which works great and then install a program, which creates more than one system restore point (with the reboots and installing the other parts necessary to work), and then you find out that it gitches up your system but the system restore point you made at the beginning is gone because of all the new ones made during the instalation… *this has unfortunately happened to me several times(.
System restore can be a lifesaver, though it can also eat up your harddrive if left unchecked, making this a handy tool. But just curious, does anybody know a way to make a backup of a system restore point or something like that? I ask because sometimes you have a system restore point which works great and then install a program, which creates more than one system restore point (with the reboots and installing the other parts necessary to work), and then you find out that it gitches up your system but the system restore point you made at the beginning is gone because of all the new ones made during the instalation… *this has unfortunately happened to me several times(.
Thank you, saving space already !
Thanks Stu but i am some Confused can i save my Windows 7’s Restore point(Which i created after my fresh install OS) For ever??
I’m sure its possible, though i don’t see why you would want to – I wouldn’t recommend it. The system would probably become unstable too.
migwiz.exe is probably a better tool to use for a “snap-shot”.
Or use something like Macrium Reflect to take a snap shot of your system on a clean image so you can restore or build from this image when needed. Last time I checked, Reflect is free for both image creation and restoring/deployment.
I’m sure its possible, though i don’t see why you would want to – I wouldn’t recommend it. The system would probably become unstable too.
migwiz.exe is probably a better tool to use for a “snap-shot”.
I`m glad I logged on to this site, I learned somethings, I was about to change my restore settings so it would show daily restore points on the calender, If I would have changed that it would have ate up a lot of space on my drive;; is this true???? thanks for any help; the Flat
I wanted to be able to say my ‘orginal’ or earliest restore points so what I did was increase the Usage to Max which is 388.05GB. DO NOT do this! What happened is it started a snowball effect on storing backup. The files got bigger and bigger for the restore backup and pretty soon my 500 GB hardrive was full! I deleted pictures and all extra files to find that didn’t make any difference and the snowballing was still happening. I restored the current usage to the Min. (actually I turned my off because I have Carbonite online backup which is to die for) I often have a problem that system restore doesn’t work and try another systerm point.. doesn’t work. So I shut my off having the other backup. I delted the back restore points and guess what, I now have 411GB Free space from Full. Holy crap!! Who knew!