Thank you Elaine, I ran this by several friends and relatives in the computer business, networking, project engineers etc., and no one knew anything about this. I remain baffled as to why anyone would need a few hundred or thousand restore points. I have a computer with something over 100 gigs, (it is not XP), and can only imagine how many restore points would be found in a directory with over 1.2 gigs of space.
Thanks for providing information on how to adjust this. Sometime when my laptop has been stable for a while, with no recently loaded programs, I will do the clean out and restart the restore as you mentioned, with a much smaller room in which to place these files. In your expertise, is there any way to copy off a few of the restore files, and then replace them, just for insurance (XP is full of surprises concerning programs that were installed a while back)? I like XP. It has proven to be the most stable of the Windows programs so far and I have been using Windows since 2 point something. But there are some characteristics that are just short of offensive. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "ETM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:34 AM Subject: Re: PCWorks: Restore files > I am at maximum space allowed for restore (12%). > > "To allocate more disk space for archiving restore points > Open System Properties. Select a drive from the Available > drives box by clicking it, and then click Settings. If you > have only one drive or partition, it is selected for you. In > the Drive <drive:>settings box, move the Disk space to use > slider to change the disk space allocation for System > Restore. Note that you cannot exceed 12 percent of the > available disk space. Notes > > To open System Properties, click Start, point to Settings, > click Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance and > then click System. In the System Properties dialog box, > click the System Restore tab. System Restore requires at > least 200 MB of available space on the hard disk (or the > partition that contains your operating system folder). For > best performance and protection, you should allocate more > space. > > By default, when the operating system installs System > Restore on your computer, it allocates approximately 12 > percent of the available disk space to System Restore > ...." > > See your help file for more information and links. > > Turning off restore will clear all restore points and should > release the file space. Then turn it back on and it should > set in a new restore point. Check to be certain. You can > manually create a restore point if it did not. You can then > change the restore allocation to less than 12% if you so > desire. > > I don't tamper with and don't recommend that anyone else > tamper with the page/swap files. > > Elaine > > Everything has got a moral if you can only find it. > --Lewis Carroll > > Hello Michael ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
