System Restore Points

[adyf]

Hi,

I have a 120gb hard drive with around 20gb free at any one time. I have
noticed that most of the time I only have one automatically created restore
point. I am aware that the number of restore points is dependant on free hard
drive space, however I had many more available restore points under Windows
XP with same amount of free hard drive space. Is there a way I can increase
the amount of space available to System Restore? I have looked at the
settings and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Yes, you can alter the amount of space allotted using vssadmin from the
command prompt. The default is 15%, which would be about 18GB of your hard
drive space. However, if you only have 20GB remaining, then Vista will try
to maintain that as it needs a certain amount of free space for defragging,
paging, indexing, and other system processes. If necessary, space allotted
to other processes may be reduced as a result.

When you check restore points available, first click the line to "choose a
different restore point", click next, then enable the box to show points
older than 5 days. You may find more available than you think.

See this link using vssadmin to change the amount of space allocated to
system restore:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decrease_storage_space-allocated_to_system_restore.htm

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[adyf]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for the reply. In my case if system restore is set to 15% of hard
drive space then I don't think changing it with 20gb free will help out too
much. I'm interested in your other observation 'choose a different restore
point'. I can't see that option anywhere. I only had one automatically
created restore point, so I created one manually to see if it would give me
that option but I still can't see it.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

That option appears on the second screen, after selecting the option to
choose a different restore point (not the default, most recent one) and
clicking next.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[adyf]

Hi,

I don't get the option to choose a diferent restore point. I see a table
with different restore points and nothing else. If I highlight one then the
next stage is to proceed with the restore.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Well, apparently you are already making maximum use of the allotted space.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com