Holy BLOAT!

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Nonny

I was wondering why my new Vista system would only hold eight restore
points. I recently used up that space very quickly when I installed a
bunch of my old programs that I used in XP.

Turns out that my Vista restore points are about TWO GIGS EACH,
compared to 200mb each in my old XP system.

By default, Vista appears to allocate a maximum size of 15% of the
drive's total space for restore points. Or it might be a fixed
number, I'm not sure. On my system disk, it's currently a tad over 16
gigs. That much space would've stored 80 restore points in XP!

To change that space allocation requires some command line hoop
jumping, rather than just moving a slider in the GUI.
 
C

ceed

Nonny wrote:

|I was wondering why my new Vista system would only hold eight restore
|points. I recently used up that space very quickly when I installed a
|bunch of my old programs that I used in XP.
|
|Turns out that my Vista restore points are about TWO GIGS EACH,
|compared to 200mb each in my old XP system.
|
|By default, Vista appears to allocate a maximum size of 15% of the
|drive's total space for restore points. Or it might be a fixed
|number, I'm not sure. On my system disk, it's currently a tad over 16
|gigs. That much space would've stored 80 restore points in XP!
|
|To change that space allocation requires some command line hoop
|jumping, rather than just moving a slider in the GUI.

Good thing storage is cheaper than gas these days....
 
K

kevpan815

That's Exactly Why I Say That It's Time 4 Microsoft 2 Do A Full Recall Of All
Sold Copies Of Windows Vista Service Pack 0 And Windows Vista Service Pack 1
As Well, Just FYI. They Should Give Us Allow Us 2 Trade In Our Purchased
Copies Of Windows Vista Service Pack 0 And Service Pack 1 4 A Fully Licensed
Copy Of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Web Edition, Also Just FYI.
 
N

Nonny

Nonny wrote:

|I was wondering why my new Vista system would only hold eight restore
|points. I recently used up that space very quickly when I installed a
|bunch of my old programs that I used in XP.
|
|Turns out that my Vista restore points are about TWO GIGS EACH,
|compared to 200mb each in my old XP system.
|
|By default, Vista appears to allocate a maximum size of 15% of the
|drive's total space for restore points. Or it might be a fixed
|number, I'm not sure. On my system disk, it's currently a tad over 16
|gigs. That much space would've stored 80 restore points in XP!
|
|To change that space allocation requires some command line hoop
|jumping, rather than just moving a slider in the GUI.

Good thing storage is cheaper than gas these days....
Click to expand...

I'm waiting on a 250gig SATA drive to arrive! Should be here by
Wednesday.
 
C

ceed

Nonny wrote:

|
||Nonny wrote:
||
|>|I was wondering why my new Vista system would only hold eight
|restore >|points. I recently used up that space very quickly when I
|installed a >|bunch of my old programs that I used in XP.
|>|
|>|Turns out that my Vista restore points are about TWO GIGS EACH,
|>|compared to 200mb each in my old XP system.
|>|
|>|By default, Vista appears to allocate a maximum size of 15% of the
|>|drive's total space for restore points. Or it might be a fixed
|>|number, I'm not sure. On my system disk, it's currently a tad over
|16 >|gigs. That much space would've stored 80 restore points in XP!
|>|
|>|To change that space allocation requires some command line hoop
|>|jumping, rather than just moving a slider in the GUI.
||
||Good thing storage is cheaper than gas these days....
|
|I'm waiting on a 250gig SATA drive to arrive! Should be here by
|Wednesday.

Remember when I got my new computer with 450 mb drive sometime in the
90s. I thought: "I'm never going to be able to find stuff to fill this
thing with". That was before mp3s, xvid and BitTorrent. Now you can
install programs like Miro who asks you how many GB it should leave you
with after it has done it's thing. Times have changed. So has gas
prices, and storage prices for that matter.
 
C

ceed

kevpan815 wrote:

|That's Exactly Why I Say That It's Time 4 Microsoft 2 Do A Full
|Recall Of All Sold Copies Of Windows Vista Service Pack 0 And Windows
|Vista Service Pack 1 As Well, Just FYI. They Should Give Us Allow Us
|2 Trade In Our Purchased Copies Of Windows Vista Service Pack 0 And
|Service Pack 1 4 A Fully Licensed Copy Of Microsoft Windows Server
|2008 Web Edition, Also Just FYI.
|
|"Nonny" wrote:
|
|| I was wondering why my new Vista system would only hold eight
||restore points. I recently used up that space very quickly when I
||installed a bunch of my old programs that I used in XP.
||
|| Turns out that my Vista restore points are about TWO GIGS EACH,
|| compared to 200mb each in my old XP system.
||
|| By default, Vista appears to allocate a maximum size of 15% of the
|| drive's total space for restore points. Or it might be a fixed
|| number, I'm not sure. On my system disk, it's currently a tad
||over 16 gigs. That much space would've stored 80 restore points
||in XP!
|| To change that space allocation requires some command line hoop
|| jumping, rather than just moving a slider in the GUI.
||

And this is exactly why I need to leave this ng for a coupla months
again. Can't be bothered. :)
 
B

Bill in Co.

Nonny said:
I was wondering why my new Vista system would only hold eight restore
points. I recently used up that space very quickly when I installed a
bunch of my old programs that I used in XP.

Turns out that my Vista restore points are about TWO GIGS EACH,
compared to 200mb each in my old XP system.
Click to expand...

Or 60 MB (is what I'm seeing here), for that matter. 2 GIGS is just
incredible. Total BLOAT. (consider that the entire W98SE operating
system took about 200 MB - that's 200 Megabytes).
 
A

Adam Albright

I'm waiting on a 250gig SATA drive to arrive! Should be here by
Wednesday.
Click to expand...

What a riot, you can't wait to get a new hard drive to bloat it up
with more restore points no doubt.

Hint to the clueless; you rarely would ever have a need for more than
the LAST restore point. Keeping dozens of them around cluttering up
your hard drive is as dumb as saving old calendars thinking you'll
have a use for them in the future.
 
K

kevpan815

Both Of My 2 Computers That Are Running The 60 Day Free Trial Of Microsoft
Windows Server 2008 Are Only One Year Old, Just FYI. They Are Also Duel
Booting With Open Source Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support With No
Problems, Also Just FYI. It is Only When I Install Windows Vista SP0 And/Or
SP1 That I Have Major Problems With these 2 Computer's, Also Just FYI.
 
N

Nonny

Nonny wrote:
|
|I'm waiting on a 250gig SATA drive to arrive! Should be here by
|Wednesday.

Remember when I got my new computer with 450 mb drive sometime in the
90s. I thought: "I'm never going to be able to find stuff to fill this
thing with".
Click to expand...

My first hard drive was a hard CARD (ISA)... 30mb and $300! Next step
was a HUMONGOUS Maxtor 213mb from Egghead! I think I paid $250 for
that one.

Then came a 1gig drive (OEM) for $300 from a local shop.

The 250gig SATA was $65 from Newegg.
 
N

Nonny

Or 60 MB (is what I'm seeing here), for that matter. 2 GIGS is just
incredible.
Click to expand...

And that's to write a restore point on only about 37gigs of
system/programs/data that I keep on that drive.
 
B

Bill in Co.

Adam said:
What a riot, you can't wait to get a new hard drive to bloat it up
with more restore points no doubt.

Hint to the clueless; you rarely would ever have a need for more than
the LAST restore point. Keeping dozens of them around cluttering up
your hard drive is as dumb as saving old calendars thinking you'll
have a use for them in the future.
Click to expand...

Or even going to Vista, for that matter.
 
N

Nonny

So why are you writing this drivel in an XP group?
Click to expand...

For those who are thinking of upgrading and that only have relatively
small drives!

They WILL need more space.
 
?

????What

Adam said:
What a riot, you can't wait to get a new hard drive to bloat it up
with more restore points no doubt.

Hint to the clueless; you rarely would ever have a need for more than
the LAST restore point. Keeping dozens of them around cluttering up
your hard drive is as dumb as saving old calendars thinking you'll
have a use for them in the future.
Click to expand...

How stupid can one person be?
 
B

Bill in Co.

Nonny said:
For those who are thinking of upgrading and that only have relatively
small drives!

They WILL need more space.
Click to expand...

Actually, I for one am glad you reported it. That's the final nail in its
coffin, for me.
 

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