Vista - Can't Delete System Restore Points

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop that has about 20 System Restore points and I am trying to delete all but the most recent to free up disk space.
When I go to Disk Cleanup and select the option to do so, everything seems to work OK, but when it's finished there is no recovered disk space and the 20 Restore points still appear when I go to System Restore. I have tried starting the computer in Safe Mode and attempting the cleanup, but the same thing happens - the Disk Cleanup routine runs without error, but there is no recovered disk space and the 20 restore points still appear in System Restore.
Since I was getting nowhere with Disk Cleanup, I decided to go to System protection and turn off the system restore on the hard drive, which is supposed to delete all the restore points. I removed the checkmark next to the drive to remove System Restore, got the warning that I was about to remove System Restore and delete all the restore points and told it to go ahead and it finished. The same thing however, no recovered disk space and all the restore points still exist in System Restore. I turned System Restore back on by re-checking the box.
I am perplexed as to why I am unable to delete the System Restore points by either of the methods mentioned above. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I am running Vista Home Premium 64 bit on a hard drive that is partitioned into two drives, a working drive and a system recovery drive.

hey download tune up utilities

google is ur friend

then go to free up disk space. it will scan .for stuff like sytem rstore points

if i helped gimmie some rep plz

Hello JRE,

Double check to make sure that you have all drives listed unchecked as well when turning off and on System Restore. Some OEM computers may have the recovery partition selected there as well.

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn

Just Restart VSC Service (Volume shadow copy Service) and try deleting the restore points using disk cleanup.

use foldersizes (trial version) and verify the size that used by system restore (folder name: c:\system volume information).

System Restore might use up to 15 percent of the space on each disk.
if you find it uses less than 15 percent of the disc then it is good. if you want to reduce try the following....

open cmd as as administrator
Type: "Vssadmin list shadowstorage" for information
Type: "Vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=C: /For=C: /MaxSize=10GB" to resize.

Note: you can 10GB is an example number...you can change it to as much as you want.

Hello JRE welcome to the Forums.

To reduce the amount of space, try this tutorial.
That wills the amount of Disk Space to use for a restore.

You can also go in and manually delete the old system restores.

~Lordbob

Thanks for the replies all. I learned something from each one. I downloaded TuneUp Utilities as suggested by Kiddieboy and it removed the restore points for me.

I'm still puzzled as to why the Windows utilities didn't work, but glad to have the problem resolved.

Thanks again,
Randy

thank you. admin i think we can close this thread