Brent
You can control the size of System Restore folders without turning
off System Restore.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspacev.html
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"Brent" <HarvestThis@Spammers.Net> wrote in message
news:eHISqyZfHHA.928@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> It is a System File with NO extension.
>
> Your excellent suggestion about the registry search turned up:
>
> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup\VSS
> Default Provider
>
> with a value of
>
> \System Volume Information\*{3808876B-C176-4e48-B7AE-04046E6CC752}
> /s
>
> Obviously SVI files ending with
> {3808876B-C176-4e48-B7AE-04046E6CC752} are not to be backed up by
> Volume Shadow copy Service, but beyond that I'm clueless.
>
> The other 2 partitions, System and Users, have 4 and 31 files,
> respectively, in System Volume Information ending with
> {3808876B-C176-4e48-B7AE-04046E6CC752} and varying in size from 30
> MB to 5.5 GB.
>
> Thanks for the assistance.
>
>