EASY question for MVPs ..Or others..

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Michael L. Arends

Didn't mean to slight anyone.....

Gotta Love that system restore. It has saved my Bacon on SEVERAL times.

However I have a short statement and then a question,

I am what my wife calls a bit of a neat freak as far as my computer
goes, in that I don't like wasted space even though I have ample room
left. I Often use the Built in windows disk cleanup utility, and in turn
use the "more options" part that handles 'system restore'.

My understanding is that by using this, it will delete all but the last
restore point. Ok.. That's fine.

I was just wondering if there was anyway or any place, I could define
for it to delete all but the oh ..say last "THREE" restore points?

I know it runs naturally usually once a day. But I do a lot of
installing and uninstalling of software. And after all is said and done,
and I do my disk cleanup, it would be nice to know that my last 3
restore points are still there.

I'm running winXP Home, 512 megs of Ram, and an 80gigHD on my laptop.

Thanks for any comments in advance.

Michael
 
One cannot selectively retain or delete restore points....its all or nothing.

How to Turn On and Turn Off System Restore in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310405&Product=winxp

Microsoft Windows XP System Restore
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...y/en-us/dnwxp/html/windowsxpsystemrestore.asp

System Restore for Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner.com/xp_restore.htm

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| Didn't mean to slight anyone.....
|
| Gotta Love that system restore. It has saved my Bacon on SEVERAL times.
|
| However I have a short statement and then a question,
|
| I am what my wife calls a bit of a neat freak as far as my computer
| goes, in that I don't like wasted space even though I have ample room
| left. I Often use the Built in windows disk cleanup utility, and in turn
| use the "more options" part that handles 'system restore'.
|
| My understanding is that by using this, it will delete all but the last
| restore point. Ok.. That's fine.
|
| I was just wondering if there was anyway or any place, I could define
| for it to delete all but the oh ..say last "THREE" restore points?
|
| I know it runs naturally usually once a day. But I do a lot of
| installing and uninstalling of software. And after all is said and done,
| and I do my disk cleanup, it would be nice to know that my last 3
| restore points are still there.
|
| I'm running winXP Home, 512 megs of Ram, and an 80gigHD on my laptop.
|
| Thanks for any comments in advance.
|
| Michael
 
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 09:27:09 -0800, "Michael L. Arends"
Gotta Love that system restore. It has saved my Bacon on SEVERAL times.
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What are you doing that causes so much trouble? :-)
I was just wondering if there was anyway or any place, I could define
for it to delete all but the oh ..say last "THREE" restore points?
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As mentioned, there's no way - SR is just too inflexible by design.

You can approximate the same effect either by managing SR manually,
and/or crunching down on the space it is allowed to consume.

As a performance/efficiency fan, you have prolly discovered the joys
of partitioning the HD into multiple volumes. If your approach is to
store core code and apps only on C:, or C: and D: say, then you could
disable SR on other volumes.

That helps massively when it comes to shovelling around wads of other
system's HD contents, otherwise SR beats itself to death every time
you drop or delete a wad of such material (packed as it is with
monitored files that SR is too stupid to realise have to system
relevance). But there's a fly in the ointment there.

Every time you add a new HD to the system, SR will enable itself for
the additional drive letters - and you can't "pre-book" SR-disable in
such cases. Of course it also duhfaults to wasting as much HD space
as possible in such cases. So you should either disable SR for those
volumes before doing anything else, or disable SR altogether.

If the dropped-in HD is also from XP, SR will probably kill that
installation's SR data. The best chance of avoiding that is to
disable SR on all drives (yes, that discards *your* SR data) before
dropping in the HD. SR is not always your friend.


We are moving into an age of hot-swappable S-ATA HDs, and MS urgently
needs to get the clue that just because a HD is visible on the local
system, does NOT mean it is "part of" that system and should be
stomped on. Respect, MS please; respect!


Manual SR means keeping it off generally (or preventing auto-creation
of restore points) until just before you do something hairy. As a
savvy performance/efficiency fan, I assume you know when that is <g>
....then enable it and make a manual restore point before proceeding.
After trouble-free mileage for a while, disable SR again, etc.


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