System Restore question

[Panic]

My friend's System Restore is not making any automatic restore points. He
can manually make restore points. On the phone I had him open System
Restore to insure he did not have a check mark before "turn off system
restore". No check mark there. In the WinXP help files it indicates that
System Restore will make automatic restore points within its memory
capability. He has 12% of his hard drive allocated with over 9 GB provided.
My setup is similar but I have months of past restore points available
without having manually entered them.

Any ideas I might pass on to him? Thanks.

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[Rock]

My friend's System Restore is not making any automatic restore points. He
can manually make restore points. On the phone I had him open System
Restore to insure he did not have a check mark before "turn off system
restore". No check mark there. In the WinXP help files it indicates that
System Restore will make automatic restore points within its memory
capability. He has 12% of his hard drive allocated with over 9 GB
provided. My setup is similar but I have months of past restore points
available without having manually entered them.

Any ideas I might pass on to him? Thanks.

System restore is only good for going back one or two weeks at the most.
The 12% space allowed is way too much. You should decrease that space.
Having too much space and too many restore points is one of the things that
can lead to corruption in the restore points. Besides there is no point
since SR is only effective as I said out to a max of two weeks. Longer than
that and there are too many inconsistencies.

See the troubleshooting steps and tips on Bert Kinney's System Restore page.
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

 

[Guest]

Although I don't use System Restore - this is the best source of information
on it that I've found:
http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=54&sid=dcb306289cdc3a641d038b621ccfbad4

- John

 

[Bert Kinney]

Take a look at this page in particular.

Troubleshooting missing restore points:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrps.html

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

 

[Jackson]

System restore is only good for going back one or two weeks at the most.
The 12% space allowed is way too much. You should decrease that space.
Having too much space and too many restore points is one of the things that
can lead to corruption in the restore points. Besides there is no point
since SR is only effective as I said out to a max of two weeks. Longer than
that and there are too many inconsistencies.

See the troubleshooting steps and tips on Bert Kinney's System Restore page.
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

Rock, how much space do you recommend assigning to SR?

Thanks

 

[Rock]

Rock, how much space do you recommend assigning to SR?

That depends on how many restore points you want to keep. Some days there
is only one restore point made and others more such as when installing
software and updates. About 750MB to 1GB should give around 14 days worth,
depending on the above factors. You have to see how big restore points are
on your system to refine this.