Restore Point deletion?

[oldman]

Is there a way to manually delete a specific restore point. In
Windows2000 this was possible. It appears that in XP and Vista this
capability was eliminated. Trendmicro determined there was a virus in
a file in a restore point but the systems XP and Vista do not allow
one to kill the affected restore point.

TIA for any help on this one.

 

[Malke]

Is there a way to manually delete a specific restore point. In
Windows2000 this was possible. It appears that in XP and Vista this
capability was eliminated. Trendmicro determined there was a virus in
a file in a restore point but the systems XP and Vista do not allow
one to kill the affected restore point.

AFAIK Win2k didn't have System Restore although WinME did. However, with
both Vista and XP you can delete all but the most recent restore point or
you can delete them all. You can't pick and choose.

To delete all the System Restore points, go to the System applet>System
Restore and turn off System Restore entirely on all drives (you should only
have it monitoring the Windows partition anyway). Reboot. Then go back to
the System applet and turn System Restore back on.

If you know your computer is clean now and you don't want to turn off System
Restore, make a new clean restore point and then use Disk Cleanup>More
Options to delete all but the last restore point.

To run System Restore, go to the Start Orb and in the Start Search box type
"System Restore" without the quotes. System Restore will appear in the
Programs result. Click on it, allow the UAC prompt, and follow the wizard.

Malke

 

[Ken Blake]

Is there a way to manually delete a specific restore point. In
Windows2000 this was possible. It appears that in XP and Vista this
capability was eliminated. Trendmicro determined there was a virus in
a file in a restore point but the systems XP and Vista do not allow
one to kill the affected restore point.

Two points:

1. No, you can delete all restore points, all but the most recent, or none.
There are no other choices. They are chained together, and deleting a
specific one would break the chain.

2.A virus in a restore point is completely innocuous and can not hurt you in
any way, *unless* you restore from it. If it were me, I wouldn't worry about
it, but just keep a note of the date of the restore point so as to be sure
never to restore from it. It will soon (max 3 months) fall off the end of
the chain, and be gone by itself anyway.