"G.Born" <No-Spam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>>This has happened on my Vista HP system several times.
> Anyone know why this might happen?
> (I haven't run any disk clean-up processes.)<
>
> You are using a dual-boot with WIn XP? If yes, this is a Windows XP
> feature.
Vista HP.
> If not, some third party defragmenation tools, virus scanners and so on
> are causing a bunch of shadow copies - as a result, the free storages
> exhaused and old restore points are deleted. Details are discussed here
> http://gborn.blogger.de/stories/790875/ (but unfortunately in German
> only).
>
> Maybe it helps.
Thanks. I translated it using Google.
I'm using Avast AV and a boot time defrag so perhaps that's
the problem but it presents quite a dilemma.