Using System Restore in Vista 64

[Greenlizard0]

The thing is I'm always trying new stuff out and keeping my apps uptodate - and should things ever mess up I prefer to have a System Restore point to roll back to.

However it seems that they take an enormous amount of space, just 2 weeks worth was 8GB (?), is it possible that I can always only have the latest one, and the older ones deleted. I can do this manually in disc clean up - but I'm just wondering if there's an automatic way of doing things.

I'm trying to look in the options components in there and I can't see the option to use a certain percentage of the hard drive it's looking after

 

[coupe69]

Open a command prompt in administrator mode,

Type in the following command into the prompt :-

vssadmin list shadowstorage

This will bring up how much space system restore is taking up.

To change the maximum size on the disk that System Restore uses type in the following :-

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /Maxsize=4GB

I've put in 4GB as an example but you can change that to whatever size you want.

 

[Greenlizard0]

Thank you very much!

 

[Greenlizard0]

Mmmm....I have reduced to 1GB, what's the ideal size so that only the last one or two changes are saved? I don't need more than that..

 

[bledd]

if you must use system restore, could set it to hold it on another drive if your c is low on space..

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=D: /Maxsize=4GB

personally acronis true image is tons better i find