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« on: September 16, 2005, 09:39:56 AM »

I'm posting this for a friend, too shy to join forums. This is the problem he sent me and I have to admit I am not too familiar with restore points etc yet. any feedbackgreatly appreciated.
Q: "yesteday i did 3 system restores for various reasons. When i looked at my HD space i had lost nearly a Gb. i'm wondering if each restore point creates maasive files or something. I am down to 5Gb left so space is becoming a real issue."


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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2005, 11:43:56 AM »

Systems Restore Points take up part of your HDD and doing 3 would take up the amount shown.

To get some disc space back needs to run a  disk cleanup.

Click on start, Programs, Accessories, Systems Tools, Click on Disk Cleanup, Click,  select C drive, click OK, It will tell you it is scanning let it when finished up will come a list. click more options down the bottom will show systems restore click clean up, it will ask you do you want to do this action click ok, then ok again, let it run and when it has finished the old restore points have gone except for the latest ones.

Once that is done some of the disk space should be back, also afterwards do a defrag.

Hope this helps you friend, tell them we don't bite and we are friendly :D
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2005, 03:14:19 PM »

Cheers Don , i'll certainly pass that on. just curious though, why does this take up so much space. Is it backup?


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« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2005, 03:25:50 PM »

Yes strum it is if your files or a program has a file missing from it, you roll it back to the last restore point, and it rewrites the files that are missing, also useful if you install a program, don't like it, uninstalls it, if by any chance a windows file or a systems file goes missing that should not of done, then you do what I have told you above and 99 times out of 100 your system is back up and running, also have you read what I have written in general chat. :lol:   :lol:
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2005, 08:01:14 AM »

It's just like it took some space for it to store their resources file.
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2005, 08:03:25 AM »

Quote from: cloudint
It's just like it took some space for it to store their resources file.


What the heck, is a "resources file"?
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« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2006, 08:20:12 PM »

You can limit the amount of HDD space taken up by System Restore, i.e. the number of old Restore Points saved.
    Open System Restore
    Click on System Restore Settings
    Click on the drive if you have more than one
    Click Settings
    adjust the slider to suit[/list:u]
    If you have extra drives, which you don't usually need monitored, make sure that they're turned off through
their Settings dialogue box. Otherwise you'll gobble up more GBs than necessary.
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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2006, 05:09:56 PM »

http://www.fixmyxp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=728

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see thread above

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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2006, 11:35:31 PM »

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Please keep posts relevant and no spam!

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« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2006, 03:15:58 AM »

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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2006, 05:00:07 AM »

blogGreen88 read the rules found at the top of the forum when you first signup.

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« Reply #11 on: May 26, 2006, 10:02:50 AM »

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« Reply #12 on: May 26, 2006, 01:08:06 PM »

Hi Strummy

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