System Restore Points - Never more than a day old

[SoxFaninVA]

I have a 320gb hard drive and 150gb free. Whenever I look at my available
restore points they are never more than 24 hours old. In XP, I always had a
list of restore points going back a month or more.

I haven't seen the same settings in Vista that allow me to change how much
storage space is allocated to restore points.

How do I get Vista to hang on to restore points older than a day?

Thanks,
Tom

 

[Mike Torello]

I have a 320gb hard drive and 150gb free. Whenever I look at my available
restore points they are never more than 24 hours old. In XP, I always had a
list of restore points going back a month or more.

I haven't seen the same settings in Vista that allow me to change how much
storage space is allocated to restore points.

You have 15% of your drive allocated for use - that should be plenty,
even too much.

Check/change your space per instructions:

http://www.petri.co.il/change_amount_of_disk_space_used_by_system_restore_in_vista.htm

How do I get Vista to hang on to restore points older than a day?

Do you see a box that can be ticked to show restore points older than
5 days?

 

[SoxFaninVA]

You have 15% of your drive allocated for use - that should be plenty,
even too much.

Check/change your space per instructions:

http://www.petri.co.il/change_amount_of_disk_space_used_by_system_restore_in_vista.htm


Do you see a box that can be ticked to show restore points older than
5 days?

I don't have a box that allows me to see restore points older than 5 days.
When I go to Restore, I can use the recommended restore point or click a
radio button to look at other restore points. When I check that button I
see a list of 8-10 restore points, all from within the last day.

When I do the command line option for checking on the allocated space I get
this:

Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 36.542 GB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 38.382 GB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 42.454 GB

 

[Mike Torello]

I don't have a box that allows me to see restore points older than 5 days.
When I go to Restore, I can use the recommended restore point or click a
radio button to look at other restore points. When I check that button I
see a list of 8-10 restore points, all from within the last day.

When I do the command line option for checking on the allocated space I get
this:

Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 36.542 GB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 38.382 GB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 42.454 GB

Your 8-10 points in one day show that you've been doing something to
activate the making of a restore point, like installing/uninstalling
software, doing updates.

When that activity settles down and you get on to the normal use of
your computer, you should see ONE point being created every 24 hours -
provided your computer is on long enough to allow that, or it's not in
use for a long enough period to allow it.

You have enough space allocated to run two weeks or more (or over a
couple dozen) restore points.

 

[Mike Torello]

BTW... that "Sox" better be CHICAGO WHITE SOX.

 

[SoxFaninVA]

BTW... that "Sox" better be CHICAGO WHITE SOX.

haha, sorry it's the Sox of the Boston variety. Fan since I was a kid in
the late 70's so I'm not a bandwagoner jumping aboard in the wake of the 2
Word Series wins. I earned those after a lifetime of heartbreak! 1986 vs
the Mets is still tattoed in my memory.

I've been to a ChiSox game once in the new US Cell field a few years back.

 

[SoxFaninVA]

Your 8-10 points in one day show that you've been doing something to
activate the making of a restore point, like installing/uninstalling
software, doing updates.

When that activity settles down and you get on to the normal use of
your computer, you should see ONE point being created every 24 hours -
provided your computer is on long enough to allow that, or it's not in
use for a long enough period to allow it.

You have enough space allocated to run two weeks or more (or over a
couple dozen) restore points.

yep, I was uninstalling/reinstalling Windows Live Mail that was giving me
fits.

My pc is on 24/7 so one would think there would be plenty of restore points
a week or more older. I'll see if I get any restore points older than a few
days now that I'm done uninstalling for the most part.