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Name: Flo Austin (by Flo) Date: August 6, 2002 at 05:44:40 Pacific
Comment:
I have a folder C:\_RESTORE which contain a lot of folders I don t need, but I can not delete it or any folder in it... and it size is quite 2 Go !!! Please help me
Name: Michael Date: August 6, 2002 at 05:52:15 Pacific
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Firstly, that is you system restore folder. Those are the points in history that you can go back to with Win. if you mess something up.
Secondly, If you need the space that bad, you could put a boot disk in and reboot. Once into dos simply delete the folder.
Hope that helped
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Response Number 2
Name: ken Date: August 6, 2002 at 05:58:13 Pacific
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You can also go to disk cleanup and under the more options tab choose to remove all but last restore point.That is if it is a Known good one.
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Response Number 3
Name: edsod Date: August 6, 2002 at 06:01:02 Pacific
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A way to have system restore's possible (?) benefits and a smaller folder is to right click MyComputer/left clic kproperties/performance/file system and set it anywhere from 200 to 600 Mb. If you want to disable it click troubleshooting and check the box that says so. After one of these done,click OK and reboot.
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Response Number 4
Name: curio Date: August 6, 2002 at 14:19:53 Pacific
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Disable system restore - it never works and it eats hard disks.
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Response Number 5
Name: hmm Date: August 6, 2002 at 18:37:36 Pacific
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curio - that's because people always suggest to do a system restore when that's not what they need. actually, it can oftentimes make things more difficult. It has saved me alot in the past, although there was a time when a system restore wouldn't work (i was hacked).
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Response Number 6
Name: edsod Date: August 6, 2002 at 22:26:13 Pacific
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If you have other way to back up, you can think disabling it.
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Response Number 7
Name: justin Date: August 8, 2002 at 22:15:49 Pacific
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system resoter is NOT A BACKUP TOOL! If you use it thinking it's backing up your system no wonder it never works for you...
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