System Restore Points

Brumboy · 16 May 2011 at 17:51

For the past few weeks my restore points have been deleted. I have no idea how, but they have been. This is extremely annoying because I've encountered errors in the past few days and had to do a few system restores to recover and fix the problems.

Does anyone know why they keep getting deleted?

I have noticed it happens when I defrag my system and then reboot my computer but I can't see how this would delete restore points.

Destination · 16 May 2011 at 18:03

whats the size of yur system restore?
have you set ccleaner to kill them?
have you ran any cleanup tools?
even the disc cleanup within right click on drive?
have you it switched on?

what size the hd?

Brumboy · 16 May 2011 at 18:12

Size of my system restore points at the moment is 1.1GB
Size I've set for my restore points is 30GB
Not sure about that, I don't think so though, any way I can check?
I run diskcleaner, CCleaner, and smart defrag
Not sure what you mean, I just go into accessories and use disk cleanup from there
Yeah it's been on since I had the computer
Hard drive size is 400GB for C drive

Destination · 16 May 2011 at 18:14

''I run diskcleaner, CCleaner, and smart defrag''

So have you configured them to leave your system restore alone?

Brumboy · 16 May 2011 at 18:17

Disk cleanup isn't set to delete restore points.
CCleaner isn't either as far as I know (any idea where this is listed, I can't see it in the program).
Smart defrag - no idea how to configure it to leave the system restore alone, to be honest I think this is the problem, I've ran all the system cleaners and my restore points were untouched but if I defrag my system with "Smart Defrag" my restore points seem to disappear (I think it's this anyway).

Destination · 16 May 2011 at 18:20

Like the defraggler and other such tools, they don't know how best to deal with system files and can corrupt them.
Doesn't help performance, might leave fragments around.

Brumboy · 16 May 2011 at 18:23

Right after googling a bit, apparentely when I do the "defrag and optimize" option with Smartdefrag it deletes system restore points..which is stupid!

I guess I won't do it anymore, but do you know any programs that will optimise and defrag my system without deleting restore points?

Destination · 16 May 2011 at 18:37

Windows 7 has an automatic defrag tool, do you think you are gaining physical benefit from running additional tools?
If so please identify the benefit, as I'd like to know.

Sin_Chase · 16 May 2011 at 19:02

System restore is the devil. It 'fixes' problems.