DJW said:
He's saying to look it up.
The interface for System Restore is in two places. I'm only
going to discuss the one you're interested in right now.
If you go to Control Panel : System : System Restore, and click
on one of the currently enabled partitions, there is a slider that
can slide up to 12% of file system capacity. On my small C: partition,
this amounts to about 9GB of space.
That is way too much, and is too high a setting.
That much space, can hold restore points for longer than three months.
If you attempt to use a restore point from three months ago:
1) Odds are poor the operation will complete successfully.
2) Many things will have changed in 3 months. There are bound to be
side effects so severe, you'll immediately undo the restoration.
3) Using one which is a week old, is a more likely usage scenario.
At least then, the odds are good you'll keep the restore after
doing it.
Given that info, I dial my slider down until about 3GB max is allocated
for System Restore on C:. I also turn off System Restore on all partitions,
with the exception of C:. I would only use it on C:.
When in a dual or triple boot situation, you might want to turn
off WinXP System Restore altogether. That's what I've done while
playing with Windows 8 preview versions on the same computer as
my WinXP install. That's to avoid conflicts between how the
two OSes do things (both OSes use System Volume Information folder).
If you do decide to try something like that (two disks, two OSes,
while testing), I'd keep backups of things so you have something
to fall back on if any weirdness happens. I also keep SR turned off,
while doing maintenance on my Windows 7 laptop 2.5" hard drive.
I sometimes cable that up to my desktop, and if you leave SR
enabled on WinXP, it'll immediately start messing around when a
new disk shows up :-(
If you only run a single Windows OS, then by all means, leave it
enabled.
Paul
