Type "system restore" in Start/Search and hit Enter. Click Next in the
window that appears. You will see a list of recent restore points. Put a
check in the Show Restore Points Older Than 5 Days box and you will see the
complete list. How many restore points are being stored depends on how much
storage space is allocated for them and how big each restore point file is.
On my system I see five going back about a week because the restore point
files are fairly large and it only takes five to fill the allocated storage
for them. YMMV.
"scottyjamison" <scottyjamison@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EA726218-2D1C-4C3C-AFFA-18384F0F7488@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Ok, i would like to remove my previous restore points to free up disk
> space
> but how do you find out how many restore points you currently have? i
> would
> like to find this out before i decided to delete them or not just in case.
>
> thanks
>
> "solon fox" wrote:
> Quote:
>> On Jun 17, 9:50 pm, scottyjamison
>> <scottyjami...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote:
>> > I am a relatively unexperienced windows vista user using windows home
>> > premium
>> > at 32 bit on an acer aspire 6920 notebook. I noticed that occassionaly
>> > my
>> > disk space would drop dramatically without me doing anything. 100s of
>> > mbs
>> > would just disappear for no reason, so probably being stupid i decided
>> > to run
>> > the disk fragmenter to try and fix the problem. BUT to my horror i was
>> > shocked to find that the disk fragmenter began to eat up my hard disk
>> > space
>> > big style. I went from 79.7GB to 72.5GB in just over an hour.
>> >
>> > What the hell happened and can it be fixed? can i get my disk space
>> > back? i
>> > thought the disk fragmenter was supposed to help your computer not rob
>> > it..
>> >
>> > does anyone else have this problem and can someone please help me? im
>> > kinda
>> > desparate, i cant believe it.
>> >
>> > P.S if someone is kind enough to give me advice and you keep it simple
>> > so i
>> > can understand and follow it.
>>
>> How big is your hard drive? Maybe defrag didn't have enough space to
>> work in?
>>
>> Vista has several recovery features that eat disk space; shadow
>> copies, system recovery check points, updates and even indexing use up
>> space. Many people have commented on Vista growing and consuming hard
>> drive space. All of these features are designed to help you in a
>> recovery situation and basically protect you from losing data. I think
>> it is beneficial, even though it is alarming when you don't know what
>> is going on.
>>
>> You can use 'Disk Cleanup' on your hard drive properties to help free
>> up space. If you are satisfied with the latest changes to your system
>> and comfortable with your system stability, then you can use the 'More
>> Options' tab in Disk Cleanup to remove all but the most recent system
>> restore point and shadow copies. This would free up quite a bit of
>> space.
>>
>> Nonetheless, I think that a long term answer requires some
>> consideration of offline backups, a plan for archiving the unused but
>> important data you wish to keep, and as always, a larger primary hard
>> drive.
>>
>> -solon fox
>>