I am honestly not an expert on system restore. Since XP came out, I always
turned it off after installing a decent imaging program, whether it be Ghost
or TrueImage. My stored system images have always taken care of any cases
where I have to go back to another point in time, and I can control when the
images are created.

There is no sense of creating an image when the system is in an unknown
state. System Restore knows nothing of the state/stability of your computer.
It just creates a restore point. Now, you go back to that restore point and
you are in an instable condition, one that you may have previously rectified
by further work and adjustments to your system configuration.

System restore just doesn't seem like a good thing for me. I want the
control.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> wrote in message
news:Oq6aY4MPHHA.4172@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Richard
>
> What is the procedure for viewing the contents of the System Volume
> Information folder? Is it true that the default setting is 15% of volume?
> Can the default be decreased? If so how?
>
> Setting default disk allocations based on a percentage of volume has in
> many quarters for a long time been felt to be a misguided approach. Are
> there any better ways for calculating a reasonable allocation? Is a
> consensus of opinion on this issue emerging?
>
> abcd please note 15% of 75 gb is 11.25 gb i.e your missing space!
>
> --
>
> Regards.
>
> Gerry
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>
> Richard Urban wrote:
>> Your apparent lost space is in the same locations that it was with
>> Windows XP. These are hidden/system files and System Restore files
>> (System Volume Information).
>>
>>
>> "abcd" <abcd@abcd.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23jT81WMPHHA.3944@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> I have 75GB on hard disk. I have installed Vista,SQL Server, MSDN
>>> library. It shows 28GB is consumed. If I count the total of all the
>>> folders it comes to around 16GB. Where is 11GB?
>