How to delete system restore points manually?

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John7

Hello,

I discovered that about 60 system restore points eat 1.4 GB of my hard
drive.
How can I delete these manually to free disk space?

TIA,
John7
 
Hi,

Using Disk Cleanup is one method, but that only leaves you with one restore
point. Go to the System Restore tab of the system applet in the Control
Panel. Click on "settings" and reduce the amount of space allotted to SR.
This will a) remove the older points and b) prevent it from getting too
large in the future.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
John7 said:
Hello,

I discovered that about 60 system restore points eat 1.4 GB of my hard
drive.
How can I delete these manually to free disk space?

TIA,
John7
Click to expand...
One method to erase all restore points would be to disable system restore
and restart your system.
After restarting you can re-enable system restore.
 
John7 said:
I discovered that about 60 system restore points eat 1.4 GB of my hard
drive.
How can I delete these manually to free disk space?
Click to expand...

Do not attempt to be selective about it. But you can use
Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup
and its More Options to reduce to just the most recent point. Then
restart and go to Control Panel - System - System Restore and highlight
the drive - reduce the space allowed, which at 12% of the drive may be
too much on a big drive. I suggest maybe 500MB would give as many
points held as is sensible
 
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