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System Restore size and points.
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Name: RandyL
Date: July 12, 2007 at 01:54:20 Pacific
Subject: System Restore size and points.OS: VISTA Home PremiumCPU/Ram: 2.4 G/2.0GModel/Manufacturer: HP Pavillion a6030n |
Comment: I've had Vista for a few months now. And I have a lot of questions as I'm sure we all do. This is just the first of many. Is there a place to change the size of space used by System Restore so I can restore to earlier dates like in earlier editions of Windows? I chose to show restore points older then five days but it only went back 15 days. Granted I did set quite a few manual points as I dealt with issues. But I would prefer more options as Disk space is not an issue. Still learning; RandyL
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Response Number 2
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Name: Sabertooth
Date: July 12, 2007 at 07:38:49 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Depending on how much storage space you have on your system - you may or may not need to even touch this setting. FYI. In Windows Vista: the default maximum space earmarked for Shadow Copy storage 15% of your HDD or 30% of its available free space -- whichever is smaller. Some people have reported increasing space loss happening arbitrarily, hence the reason why it doesn't hurt (especially on such machines) to check & make sure that this maximum size is not without a cap .... else Vista's VSS going wild & consuming unnessary space that should otherwise be available on your HDD. Finally, the size of independent restore points in XP is a lot smaller than what is typical with Vista. So if you are on a mission to shrink the space allocate to VSS - you may not have as much options available when you need to do a system restore - same goes for the "Previous Versions" file feature too. Good luck!
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Response Number 3
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Name: RandyL
Date: July 12, 2007 at 22:45:58 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks XpUser and Sabertooth; Good links and excellent information as usual. It shows I have a max size of 43G which is 15% of my free hard drive space. I was thinking of increasing it but I think I'll leave it for now. Sabertooth you weren't kidding when you said Vista needs more space for individual restore points. I didn't have all that many. But I'm most familiar with ME. Huge difference. I saved the info as I'm sure to need it for someone sooner or later. Once again thanks. Keep up the Good work; RandyL
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