System Volume Information

[Ashley]

After having a recent clean up on my hard drive, I
noticed the System Volume Information (System Restore)
Folder was over 20GB in size, considering I only have a
75GB hard drive, it is taking up quite large proportion
of memory. In the System Restore setting the Disk Space
Usage is set to only 1% 1095MB. With only 10GB left on my
drive I will soon need this space, is there any other way
of setting the space used by these Restore Points, if not
is it ok to just delete them?!

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Ashley;
You do not want to delete them directly.
Turn off/on System Restore to delete corrupted files:
Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Restore.
Click System Restore Settings on left side.
Check "Turn off System Restore", click OK, follow prompts and reboot.
This deletes ALL Restore Points including corruption.
Then go back and turn on system Restore and create a Restore Point.

 

[Unknown]

When you do a disk clean turn on the option to remove old restore points. Do
this periodically.