Vista - drive d full

Vista prem, back up on d full. nobody seems to be addresing the questions!!!.
The drive fills up and when you try to delete restore points nothing happens.
Im starting to asume that this because the drive is full. also when you try
to delete files you cant because the drive is to full to put filles into
recycle bin.whats going on!!!

"gwc" <gwc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Vista prem, back up on d full. nobody seems to be addresing the
> questions!!!.
> The drive fills up and when you try to delete restore points nothing
> happens.
> Im starting to asume that this because the drive is full. also when you
> try
> to delete files you cant because the drive is to full to put filles into
> recycle bin.whats going on!!!

You can try changing the recycle bin properties so files are immediately
deleted instead of being moved to the bin. Regarding restore points, I
believe if you turn off system restore for that specific drive it will erase
the existing restore points (control panel\system properties\advanced
properties\system protection tab).

If you turn off system restore all restore points will be deleted. Go to
control panel, click the system icon and then, in system properties, click
the advanced system settings in the 'tasks' pane. Once in the advanced
system settings, Click the 'system, protection' tab and remove the 'tick'
mark from the drives you don't want system restore to monitor. Finally click
OK. Your system restore points should now be deleted. To re-enable system
restore do all of the above in reverse, i.e place a tick by the drives you
want system restore to monitor.
As for recycle bin, select the file(s) you want to remove and then press
Shift+Del key. This will delete the files permanently without putting them
into the recycle bin. Having said that I would have though that the system
restore points would have been too large to go into the recycle bin and
therefore they should have been permanently deleted anyway.

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John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
Windows - Shell/User

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"gwc" <gwc@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:946C1600-CEAC-4408-9C86-8D13C2282D88@microsoft.com...
> Vista prem, back up on d full. nobody seems to be addresing the
> questions!!!.
> The drive fills up and when you try to delete restore points nothing
> happens.
> Im starting to asume that this because the drive is full. also when you
> try
> to delete files you cant because the drive is to full to put filles into
> recycle bin.whats going on!!!