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March 23rd 08, 09:10 PM
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System Restore Points
Hi,
I have a 120gb hard drive with around 20gb free at any one time. I have noticed that most of the time I only have one automatically created restore point. I am aware that the number of restore points is dependant on free hard drive space, however I had many more available restore points under Windows XP with same amount of free hard drive space. Is there a way I can increase the amount of space available to System Restore? I have looked at the settings and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
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March 23rd 08, 09:40 PM
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System Restore Points
Hi,
Yes, you can alter the amount of space allotted using vssadmin from the command prompt. The default is 15%, which would be about 18GB of your hard drive space. However, if you only have 20GB remaining, then Vista will try to maintain that as it needs a certain amount of free space for defragging, paging, indexing, and other system processes. If necessary, space allotted to other processes may be reduced as a result. When you check restore points available, first click the line to "choose a different restore point", click next, then enable the box to show points older than 5 days. You may find more available than you think. See this link using vssadmin to change the amount of space allocated to system resto http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "adyf" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a 120gb hard drive with around 20gb free at any one time. I have noticed that most of the time I only have one automatically created restore point. I am aware that the number of restore points is dependant on free hard drive space, however I had many more available restore points under Windows XP with same amount of free hard drive space. Is there a way I can increase the amount of space available to System Restore? I have looked at the settings and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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March 23rd 08, 10:04 PM
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System Restore Points
Hi Rick,
Thanks for the reply. In my case if system restore is set to 15% of hard drive space then I don't think changing it with 20gb free will help out too much. I'm interested in your other observation 'choose a different restore point'. I can't see that option anywhere. I only had one automatically created restore point, so I created one manually to see if it would give me that option but I still can't see it. "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, Yes, you can alter the amount of space allotted using vssadmin from the command prompt. The default is 15%, which would be about 18GB of your hard drive space. However, if you only have 20GB remaining, then Vista will try to maintain that as it needs a certain amount of free space for defragging, paging, indexing, and other system processes. If necessary, space allotted to other processes may be reduced as a result. When you check restore points available, first click the line to "choose a different restore point", click next, then enable the box to show points older than 5 days. You may find more available than you think. See this link using vssadmin to change the amount of space allocated to system resto http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "adyf" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a 120gb hard drive with around 20gb free at any one time. I have noticed that most of the time I only have one automatically created restore point. I am aware that the number of restore points is dependant on free hard drive space, however I had many more available restore points under Windows XP with same amount of free hard drive space. Is there a way I can increase the amount of space available to System Restore? I have looked at the settings and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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March 23rd 08, 11:07 PM
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System Restore Points
Hi,
That option appears on the second screen, after selecting the option to choose a different restore point (not the default, most recent one) and clicking next. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "adyf" wrote in message ... Hi Rick, Thanks for the reply. In my case if system restore is set to 15% of hard drive space then I don't think changing it with 20gb free will help out too much. I'm interested in your other observation 'choose a different restore point'. I can't see that option anywhere. I only had one automatically created restore point, so I created one manually to see if it would give me that option but I still can't see it. "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, Yes, you can alter the amount of space allotted using vssadmin from the command prompt. The default is 15%, which would be about 18GB of your hard drive space. However, if you only have 20GB remaining, then Vista will try to maintain that as it needs a certain amount of free space for defragging, paging, indexing, and other system processes. If necessary, space allotted to other processes may be reduced as a result. When you check restore points available, first click the line to "choose a different restore point", click next, then enable the box to show points older than 5 days. You may find more available than you think. See this link using vssadmin to change the amount of space allocated to system resto http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "adyf" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a 120gb hard drive with around 20gb free at any one time. I have noticed that most of the time I only have one automatically created restore point. I am aware that the number of restore points is dependant on free hard drive space, however I had many more available restore points under Windows XP with same amount of free hard drive space. Is there a way I can increase the amount of space available to System Restore? I have looked at the settings and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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March 23rd 08, 11:31 PM
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System Restore Points
Hi,
I don't get the option to choose a diferent restore point. I see a table with different restore points and nothing else. If I highlight one then the next stage is to proceed with the restore. "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, That option appears on the second screen, after selecting the option to choose a different restore point (not the default, most recent one) and clicking next. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "adyf" wrote in message ... Hi Rick, Thanks for the reply. In my case if system restore is set to 15% of hard drive space then I don't think changing it with 20gb free will help out too much. I'm interested in your other observation 'choose a different restore point'. I can't see that option anywhere. I only had one automatically created restore point, so I created one manually to see if it would give me that option but I still can't see it. "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, Yes, you can alter the amount of space allotted using vssadmin from the command prompt. The default is 15%, which would be about 18GB of your hard drive space. However, if you only have 20GB remaining, then Vista will try to maintain that as it needs a certain amount of free space for defragging, paging, indexing, and other system processes. If necessary, space allotted to other processes may be reduced as a result. When you check restore points available, first click the line to "choose a different restore point", click next, then enable the box to show points older than 5 days. You may find more available than you think. See this link using vssadmin to change the amount of space allocated to system resto http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "adyf" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a 120gb hard drive with around 20gb free at any one time. I have noticed that most of the time I only have one automatically created restore point. I am aware that the number of restore points is dependant on free hard drive space, however I had many more available restore points under Windows XP with same amount of free hard drive space. Is there a way I can increase the amount of space available to System Restore? I have looked at the settings and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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March 23rd 08, 11:41 PM
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System Restore Points
Well, apparently you are already making maximum use of the allotted space.
-- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "adyf" wrote in message ... Hi, I don't get the option to choose a diferent restore point. I see a table with different restore points and nothing else. If I highlight one then the next stage is to proceed with the restore. "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, That option appears on the second screen, after selecting the option to choose a different restore point (not the default, most recent one) and clicking next. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "adyf" wrote in message ... Hi Rick, Thanks for the reply. In my case if system restore is set to 15% of hard drive space then I don't think changing it with 20gb free will help out too much. I'm interested in your other observation 'choose a different restore point'. I can't see that option anywhere. I only had one automatically created restore point, so I created one manually to see if it would give me that option but I still can't see it. "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, Yes, you can alter the amount of space allotted using vssadmin from the command prompt. The default is 15%, which would be about 18GB of your hard drive space. However, if you only have 20GB remaining, then Vista will try to maintain that as it needs a certain amount of free space for defragging, paging, indexing, and other system processes. If necessary, space allotted to other processes may be reduced as a result. When you check restore points available, first click the line to "choose a different restore point", click next, then enable the box to show points older than 5 days. You may find more available than you think. See this link using vssadmin to change the amount of space allocated to system resto http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "adyf" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a 120gb hard drive with around 20gb free at any one time. I have noticed that most of the time I only have one automatically created restore point. I am aware that the number of restore points is dependant on free hard drive space, however I had many more available restore points under Windows XP with same amount of free hard drive space. Is there a way I can increase the amount of space available to System Restore? I have looked at the settings and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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March 24th 08, 12:12 AM
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System Restore Points
adyf;659297 Wrote: Hi, I don't get the option to choose a diferent restore point. I see a table with different restore points and nothing else. If I highlight one then the next stage is to proceed with the restore. "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, That option appears on the second screen, after selecting the option to choose a different restore point (not the default, most recent one) and clicking next. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP 'Microsoft Most Valuable Professional' (http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/) Windows help - 'Nutcase's Home' (http://www.rickrogers.org) My thoughts 'Life and other stuff' (http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com) "adyf" adyf@xxxxxx wrote in message news:88B63225-AC73-44A6-BDA1-6F3218E913B6@xxxxxx Adyf, you said " I see a table with different restore points ". In that window look at the bottom, click the button BACK. It will bring you to a different window. Now look carefully, somewhere near the bottom, there is a little blank circle next to it is CHOOSE A DIFFERENT RESTORE POINT. Tick that little dot (circle) then NEXT. On this same window there is also the option to create a restore point OPEN SYSTEM PROTECTION, click that and you can create a rest. point. All those options have to be there, whether you have enough GB or not. Please reply afterwards. Thank you. -- davidjchuang
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