Hi,
Are you referring to Previous Versions?
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/shadow.html
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
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http://dts-l.org
piook wrote:
> Okay, when I first heard about Vista one of the things that I thought was
> really cool was that it would allow for a local version of Previous Versions
> (Volume Shadow Copy, or TimeWarp) that would allow a file that was accidently
> changed, deleted, or otherwise lost to be "returned" to a previous state. I
> was quite happy as I had seen it in action at the server level with Windows
> Server 2003, and I knew that my kids and wife (and myself believe it or not)
> could really use something like this on occasion. Like when my daughter had
> worked for 3 days on a book report just to save over it on accident with a
> letter to her grandma. So hurray, yet another way for Microsoft for coming up
> with a way to further stupid proof its software for the masses (and yes this
> still includes me).
>
> Well over a year later I finally got a laptop with Vista Home Premium (as
> the retailer did not sell laptops with Ultimate without paying for an upgrade
> that was more expensive then the Anytime upgrade option) and was happy. Well
> a couple months after that (last Tuesday) I screwed up a spreadsheet as I am
> apt to do and was freaking out until I remembered about the Volume Shadow
> Copy feature. So I start looking online as how to access this feature and
> find out that it is only available in Business Editions and up. Well no big
> deal I backed up the spreadsheet to disc the month previous so all my work
> was not lost.
>
> But then I found out that actually the Home versions of Vista do have Volume
> Shadow Copy, and they even make the same "snapshots" as the Business and Up
> versions do. But you just can't access these snapshots via "previous
> versions".
>
> So now I am thinking... And I wonder why should I be dedication up to 15%
> percent of my hard drive to this if I can't access it. So the first thing I
> do is try and find out exactly how much room this is taking up on my system
> and find out that running VSSADMIN in an elevated command prompt can show me
> and I find that about 12% of my hard drive is being used by Volume Shadow
> Copy. So can I turn it off and get this back. Well yes, but then I throw out
> System Restore in the process. So that is out because I like to try things
> and explore the net, and System restore is my best friend in that regard. I
> also could go ahead and use VSSADMIN to resize the size of the volume shadow
> copy, but that reduces the number of system restores, and still leaves me
> with old copies of files that I cannot access.
>
> So is there any way I can either a access these files without upgrading, or
> if that is not possible to not have it shadow copy my files in the first
> place?