Restore points and shadow copies

[Marjay]

Is there a way to control or delete the number of restore points or
shadow copies that Vista creates. I have more than 50 and it
definately takes up more than 15% (closer to 30%) of my drive which is
ridiculous!

thanks

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Yes, but it's not a simple setting, see:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decrease_storage_space-allocated_to_system_restore.htm

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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

 

[Lord Takyon]

Hi,

Yes, but it's not a simple setting, see:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decrease_storage_space-allocated_to_system_restore.htm

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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

It is not particularly difficult to do, but you do need to read up first so
you know what you are doing. I used vssadmin to set mine to just 5 gig as I
rarely need the backups. My restore etc was also taking up a lot more space
than they said it would, mine hit around 25-30%.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Marjay,

How to adjust disk space in Windows Vista:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspacev.html

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org