Windows Vista Folder... HUGE!

coupe69 said:
I'm not so sure turning off system restore permanantly is such a great idea but you can certainly trim it down to a more reasonable level quite easily in Vista.
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Why? What do you use it for? I can honestly hold my hand up and say i've *never* used system restore, if something goes wrong i fix it myself, i don't want system restore larking about because it usually ends in disaster anyway. Shadow copies can sometimes be handy for robocopy but that is the only reason i can think of, and i'm not about to waste 5Gb+ for that "privilege".
 
dbmzk1 said:
They are the recommended not he minimum requirements. Even so I fail to see your point. At the end of the day Vista is a more modern operating system, so you would expect it to require more. It makes much better use of it though. As said, I've yet to find anything that XP does noticeably faster than Vista. Who in their right mind is going to want to run Vista on a system like that anyway?!
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All I said is that it was interesting. I wasn't trying to make a point.
 
coupe69 said:
I'm not so sure turning off system restore permanantly is such a great idea but you can certainly trim it down to a more reasonable level quite easily in Vista.

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.
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Thanks mate:) System restore was using over 50GB :o I changed the maxsize to 15gb, is that ok for a 500gb HD?
 
hehe, I'll have to see if I can beat bledd.. I assume his Vista install is about 2GB :D
 
on my mum's pc, vista home basic 32, it's 8.80gb, insane size imo

ms should seriously have the option during install to not install certain features / components and enable you to install them at a later date using the windows disc -like you could with Windows 98

'the more the merrier' is not the case



on my laptop, the whole C drive is about 2.4 gb, that's including a 1gb pagefile and 1gb hibernation file, xp home lite
 
Vista partition currently sitting at 22.3 GB. Which works out to be £3.34 of hard disk space. Not a lot really in my opinion.
 
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