Vista - Restore points and shadow copies

Is there a way to control or delete the number of restore points or
shadow copies that Vista creates. I have more than 50 and it
definately takes up more than 15% (closer to 30%) of my drive which is
ridiculous!

thanks

Hi,

Yes, but it's not a simple setting, see:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm

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"Marjay" <marjay@rr.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to control or delete the number of restore points or
> shadow copies that Vista creates. I have more than 50 and it
> definately takes up more than 15% (closer to 30%) of my drive which is
> ridiculous!
>
> thanks

"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uieu424yHHA.312@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Yes, but it's not a simple setting, see:
> http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Marjay" <marjay@rr.com> wrote in message
> news:5pk3a3thr4kfge9stc783r8svom371fh7t@4ax.com...
>> Is there a way to control or delete the number of restore points or
>> shadow copies that Vista creates. I have more than 50 and it
>> definately takes up more than 15% (closer to 30%) of my drive which is
>> ridiculous!
>>
>> thanks
>


It is not particularly difficult to do, but you do need to read up first so
you know what you are doing. I used vssadmin to set mine to just 5 gig as I
rarely need the backups. My restore etc was also taking up a lot more space
than they said it would, mine hit around 25-30%.

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Read this instead.

Hi Marjay,

How to adjust disk space in Windows Vista:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspacev.html

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

Marjay wrote:
> Is there a way to control or delete the number of restore points or
> shadow copies that Vista creates. I have more than 50 and it
> definately takes up more than 15% (closer to 30%) of my drive which is
> ridiculous!
>
> thanks