Hi,
lynrat wrote:
> Thank you for any and all responses.
> Well sure, can turn it off for each drive after it is plugged in, by then
> windows has already created its folders on the drive, which of course means
> that I've gotta clean up behind it still...
If you are referring to the System Volume Information (SVI) folder, there is
no way to prevent it from being created. If the Indexing Service is turned
on it will use the SVI folder to store files. And if Encrypting File System
(EFS) is in use, it will use the SVI folder to store the log file that is
generated during the encryption and decryption process. So you can see that
the SVI folder is not created by System Restore but by Windows, and it can
not be permanently deleted.
> Agreed on the point of not needing it for my data drive. But that point also
> also indicates that XP is wasting time and resources monitoring new drives
> that are not and will not be system drives.
System Restore will not cause any noticeable performance impact when
monitoring your machine. The creation of a Restore point also is a very fast
process and usually takes only a few seconds. Scheduled System Checkpoints
(every 24 Hrs by default) are also only created at system idle time so that
their creation never interferes with any user using the machine.
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
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> "Dave B." wrote:
>
>> Can't you just turn it off on each drive while it's plugged in?
>> As a side note, there is no reason to keep it turned on for your data drive
>> either, just the system drive, as it doesn't back up general files, just
>> system files and the registry.
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>> "lynrat" wrote
>>> Am tired of XP littering all of my removable hard drives with the system
>>> restore folders. Is there a way to keep system restore enabled for the two
>>> permanent hard drives in my system, but prevent it from adding all new drives
>>> to the list of monitored drives? I use a combination of USB and 1394
>>> removable hard drives. Currently running XP Pro with C: as the OS drive and
>>> D: as a data drive, these never change, well almost never. Am considering
>>> dual-booting with Vista Ultimate soon also, will i have the same issue
>>> with it?
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