[RESOLVED] System Restore Settings

[desgnr]

To save disk space.
In Windows XP i could remove all the Restore Setting's except the last one.
How can i do this in Windows Vista ?

[Steve R Jones]

Vista doesn't appear to have the options...probably due to drives being so large and inexpensive...

As a temp messue you can turn it off - which will zap all restore points...then create a new one manually.

To store restore points, you need at least 300 megabytes (MB) of free space on each hard disk that has System Protection turned on. System Restore might use up to 15 percent of the space on each disk. As the amount of space fills up with restore points, System Restore will delete older restore points to make room for new ones.

System Restore will not run on hard disks smaller than 1 gigabyte (GB).

[desgnr]

Thanks

[SuperSparks]

Actually, Vista does have that option. Right-click the Vista partition in Windows Explorer and choose Properties. Click "Disk Cleanup" then choose the "Files from all users on this computer" option:



Then allow it to run when UAC asks, and go to the More Options tab, and click "Clean Up" in the "System Restore and shadow copies" section: