Lets see if I understand, you moved the pagefile to another partition....so
it continues to serve its purpose and does not get saved with each restore
Point.

What causes this file to grew to such a large file, and, in my case, almost
overnight without me doing anything, ie, adding a new program, changes, etc?

It just seems to me, whatever has caused this file to grew to such a larger
size happened overnight and whatever it is that is included in the pagefile,
my PC ran fine for 20 months without it. Is there not a way to ID what
caused the file to grew so large?

Lastly, is there a link to provide step-by-step instructions to do what you
did?

"RalfG" wrote:
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> I had a similar symptom. System Restore was archiving the pagefile.sys file
> (which had reached 3.6GB at the time) in every restore point. Moved the page
> file to a non-monitored partition.
>
> "denmarfl" <denmarfl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:450BFD97-B035-4225-93F4-215F7087C2AE@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > Thanks; b=as I wrote in my original message, I was able to determine that
> > it
> > was the System restore points that were causing me to lose 3 to 4GB of HDD
> > space daily becuase when I turned off System restore, I regained a whole
> > lot
> > of space. However, the new restore points simply start again to be
> > created
> > in the same 3 to 4GB Size. I don't want to turn if off permanently, it a
> > resource I may need some day. The issue is, and I hope someone has the
> > answer, the PC is almost 2 yrs old and just about 3 weeks ago it started
> > to
> > save Restore points in this 3 to 4GB size, prior to that I could go a week
> > and not lose 1GB. I have not installed\chnaged or altered anything on my
> > PC
> > so that is not the reason for the large restore Files. Hopefully someone
> > knows what file ot files overnight grew so large as to cause the
> > abnormally
> > large size System Restore points on my PC....possibly that file(s) can be
> > altered or deleted...afterall, my PC ran fine for 24 mos.....without the
> > large File(s).
> >
> > "Peter Foldes" wrote:
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> >> See the following
> >> [url]http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_clear_system_restore_po.htm[/url]
> >> --
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> >> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
> >>
> >> "denmarfl" <denmarfl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:79F3044D-23B0-49BA-A0BF-A66F89DCE518@microsoft.com...
> >> > Vista Home Prem 32bit. Has anyone come up with what is causing System
> >> > Restore Points on a PC that has been running for almost 2 years where
> >> > Restore
> >> > points were Restore Points took 5 to 7 days to equal 1GB, and now
> >> > suddenly
> >> > over the past 3 weeks each restore Point is taking up 3 to 4GB of HDD
> >> > space
> >> > Daily? I know its System restore using up space, if I turn it off,
> >> > which
> >> > deletes all Points, I regain the Space lost....but the process than
> >> > starts
> >> > over again. There has to be a file(s) that grew in size in 1 day
> >> > causing
> >> > this......
> >>
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