Vista - System Volume Information

I find that I have over 305GB tied up in the folder for System Volume Information. I believe it is used for system restores but this is ridiculous. Any suggestions on how to purge it without impacting my system which is Vista Ultimate?

How large is the drive? NTFS should be using about 15%.

"jmjprince" <jmjprince.32h875@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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It is a 450GB drive. I figured out how to clean out the old restore points under Disk Cleanup/More Options.

Thanks.

Rather than have just one system restore point why don’t you allocate a
finite amount of space to it. To reduce the amount of space, open an elevated
command prompt by clicking the Windows Orb (Start) > All Programs >
Accessories and right-click Command Prompt, then ‘Run as Administrator’.

To display the current parameters type (or copy and paste) “vssadmin list
shadowstorage� (not the quotes but the spaces) and press Enter.

To reduce (or increase) the disk space allocated, type (or copy and paste)
“vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=3GB� (not the quotes
but the spaces) and press Enter. This example assumes changing the space on
drive C to 3GB.

You may find that all the restore points have been removed after resizing so
make sure the computer is behaving itself before reducing the space
allocation. Also, make a manual restore point immediately after resizing.

"jmjprince" wrote: