I find that I only have the past 5 days of restore points available to me. The system restore slider is all the way to maximum. How can I get restore points to go back 3 weeks or more? Disk space is NOT a problem. William Lockie

you may have to disable system restore and then re-enable it. You may have a glitch in the restore. Carefull, cuz you lose all the points when you turn it off. If my PC is running great, then every once in awhile I purge the system restore, and also what I do is only have the slider up to 3% of the HD size. HTH. Some HELP in posting on Computing.net plus free progs and instructions Cheers

If your C: partition is getting anywhere near full, I believe 15%, System restore gives up space to maintain the OS and applications. It wouldn't matter if you had a 500GB HDD if C: is getting crowded. Otherwise I totally agree with previous post. Check System restore for value assigned to the Slider Percentage, then check Free space on C:. There is nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.

At any rate, if there are no older restore points you can't create them now. If you are trying to go back three weeks. I think you are out of luck. Perhaps someone else has wiped out the older restore points when attempting a restore. If this is related to your other recent post then it is possible a nasty has removed any older restore points. Your best solution may be to re-install WinXP. Your problem is one of the reasons we preach backing up personal data here at CN. System Restore is not intended, nor can it accomplish, returning a changed computer back to what it was weeks earlier if the programs and files needed are no longer available. In other words, it is not a replacement for regular backup/imaging. If you still have access to all your personal data I suggest you burn it to optical disk and after verifying your copies are good, wiping the drive and starting over.

For each new day, a Restore Point is created when your computer sits IDLE for a period of time. System Restore calls them "System Checkpoint".

The system files are on ba 74.5 GB HHD. C: drive There is 57.46 Free space. The restore slider is set to max., 12% 9157 MB I use Carbonite to backup important files. I use Acronis to make an image every night. Under these circumstances can the restore point space be increased? Maybe through a registry tweak, William Lockie

My Slider only gives me a max. of 5919 MB. I have Restore Points for everyday for exactly 3 Months. Most are System Checkpoints. Must be something amuck with your system. Using System Restore too many times can cause more harm than good. After doing a restore that does not fix a problem, then UNDO the Restoration, and try another restore point, or just do the UNDO. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302796 Troubleshooting steps for issues when you try to use the System Restore tool in Windows XP