TGL;945057 Wrote:
Brink;944960 Wrote:
TGL;944910 Wrote:
For about a month now,I have been losing restore points every 2-3 days.
I am set up for automatic Windows Updates and any restore points that
appear over a 2-3 day period completely disappear after that period-(I
can only hold restore points for 2-3 days in other words). I do have
plenty of storage left on my hard drive-243 GB free,so I have plenty of
room on my hard drive. I use to retain at least a whole month's worth of
dozens of restore points,but now I can only retain 2-3 days worth. I
wonder if it could have something to do with Norton Internet Security-I
activated the 60 day trial about a month ago on my laptop computer and
it seems like my system restore points have only been disappearing since
I activated the trial. But,the same thing happened with my Windows
Update History about 2 months ago-I had completely lost my update
history,but that was before Norton Internet Security.

When I go to System Restore after the 2-3 day period,the system restore
window says that no system restore points have been created on your
disc-something to that effect. I do receive Windows Updates almost on a
daily basis,so I know that I receive restore points almost everyday. I
check system restore everyday and there is always restore points,but any
restore points that I receive disappear usually after 2 days. Also,that
box that you check to see system restore points older than 5 days is no
longer on the system restore window. I'm open to any suggestions. Don't
be afraid to get too technical with me.

Thank You in Advance

Hello TGL,

Do you dual boot with XP by chance?

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/12...ot-delete.html

You may also need to adjust the maximum disk space usage for System
Restore to a higher size to allow for more restore points to be
stored also.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...isk-space.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn



Thanks for your reply Brink,

No,I don't dual boot with XP.

But,I checked out the tutorial on adjusting the maximum disc space
for System Restore as you suggested. And,I pulled up the command
prompt window that states the Used,Allocated,and Maximum Shadow Copy
Storage space and here's what I got:

Used Shadow Storage space: 430.547 MB

Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 2.441 GB

Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 43.076 GB


I think that my Maximum Shadow Copy Storage is big enough. I did try
to increase it to 150 GB by following the instructions,but the command
prompt window said: (Error: Invalid Command) when I did that. As I
stated earlier,I have 243 GB free on my C hard drive and I have used
only about 43 GB which corresponds to the Maximum Shadow Storage Space
stated above.

Could there be some type of registry error or could Norton Internet
Security be the cause for me losing restore points?

Is there a way I can repair system restore so that it will work
properly?

Thank You,
TGL

TGL,

That would certainly be large enough to hold more than a few restore
points.

Did you use Disk Cleanup by any chance and cleaned out the restore
points that way un the "More Options" tab, or any other disk cleanup
type program that has the option to clean restore points on a schedule?


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