Vista - system restore space usage

Can't find a way to limit the system restore space usage on Windows Vista
Home Premium.

Any help would be appreciated.

Lou

Lou wrote:
> Can't find a way to limit the system restore space usage on Windows
> Vista Home Premium.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Lou

Unfortunately, it seems to be more complicated than it was in XP. Here's
MVP John Barnett's method:

http://tinyurl.com/2f4ga9


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Thanks for the link, Malke. I googled on it to learn more about the command-line and saw this info:

From: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...2bef7cb07afd9c

From: "Jill Zoeller [MSFT]"
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:30:33 -0800
Local: Mon, Feb 19 2007 10:30 pm
Subject: Re: Restore points

<quote>

Unfortunately vssadmin resize shadowstorage doesn't quite work the way it
should. You can use this command to change the size, but the size is reset
to the default the next time a restore point is created. We have a bug to
change this so that a custom setting actually sticks.

</quote>

FWIW.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:O4$iU07ZHHA.2192@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Lou wrote:
> Can't find a way to limit the system restore space usage on Windows
> Vista Home Premium.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Lou

Unfortunately, it seems to be more complicated than it was in XP. Here's
MVP John Barnett's method:

http://tinyurl.com/2f4ga9


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
> Thanks for the link, Malke. I googled on it to learn more about the command-line and saw this info:
>
> From: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...2bef7cb07afd9c
>
> From: "Jill Zoeller [MSFT]"
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:30:33 -0800
> Local: Mon, Feb 19 2007 10:30 pm
> Subject: Re: Restore points
>
> <quote>
>
> Unfortunately vssadmin resize shadowstorage doesn't quite work the way it
> should. You can use this command to change the size, but the size is reset
> to the default the next time a restore point is created. We have a bug to
> change this so that a custom setting actually sticks.
>
> </quote>
>
> FWIW.
>

Thanks, Ramesh. You know, this is so stupid that MS doesn't let you
change the size used for System Restore. With the huge sizes of hard
drives nowadays, I can't imagine why they thought this would be a Good
Thing.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

I agree, Malke. Also, there could have been a GUI to change this setting.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:eeXZFn8ZHHA.2192@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Ramesh, MS-MVP wrote:
> Thanks for the link, Malke. I googled on it to learn more about the command-line and saw this info:
>
> From: http://groups.google.com/group/micro...2bef7cb07afd9c
>
> From: "Jill Zoeller [MSFT]"
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:30:33 -0800
> Local: Mon, Feb 19 2007 10:30 pm
> Subject: Re: Restore points
>
> <quote>
>
> Unfortunately vssadmin resize shadowstorage doesn't quite work the way it
> should. You can use this command to change the size, but the size is reset
> to the default the next time a restore point is created. We have a bug to
> change this so that a custom setting actually sticks.
>
> </quote>
>
> FWIW.
>

Thanks, Ramesh. You know, this is so stupid that MS doesn't let you
change the size used for System Restore. With the huge sizes of hard
drives nowadays, I can't imagine why they thought this would be a Good
Thing.


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:O4$iU07ZHHA.2192@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Lou wrote:
>> Can't find a way to limit the system restore space usage on Windows Vista
>> Home Premium.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Lou
>
> Unfortunately, it seems to be more complicated than it was in XP. Here's
> MVP John Barnett's method:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2f4ga9
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


Thanks.

Lou

"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:O4$iU07ZHHA.2192@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Lou wrote:
>> Can't find a way to limit the system restore space usage on Windows Vista
>> Home Premium.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Lou
>
> Unfortunately, it seems to be more complicated than it was in XP. Here's
> MVP John Barnett's method:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2f4ga9
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


Thanks

Lou