Thanks Alexander

That seems similar to Windows XP Professional. They made life more
difficult if you had Windows XP Home Edition! Are there any
distinctions in controlling access between Vista Editions?

What could be of interest within a System Volume Information folder is
that you can see the variations in size and number of restore points
kept. This could be helpful when assessing how much space it is
reasonable to allocate to System Restore. If Vista is supposed to be
more stable than XP why have Microsoft increased the default
allocation from 12% to 15%?


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Regards.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Alexander Suhovey wrote:
> Oh, and as for the procedure of viewing SVI folder contents, it is
> just a matter of gining yourself NTFS permissions on the folder
> since
> default is full access for SYSTEM account only. Change Windows
> Explorer settings to show system and hidden files, then open SVI
> folder properties and go to Security tab. Rest should be obvious.
>
> I doubt you will see anything interesting there however. And don't
> forget to change permissions back when you finish. Access
> restrictions are there for purpose.
>
>
> "Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey******.com> wrote in message
> news:F51DA2DA-97B1-43AA-9E71-672B40C285F5@microsoft.com...
>> Gerry,
>>
>> There's a DiskPercent entry under
>> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\S ystemRestore\cfg
>> registry key. It's value is 0x0000000f (15 decimal).
>>
>> You can try to change it, reboot and see if it'll lower disk space
>> allocation for System Restore... or break your OS.
>>
>> Don't forget to post back with results.
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Suhovey
>>
>> "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
>>> ~~~~
>>> FCA
>>> Stourport, England
>>> Enquire, plan and execute
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>
>>> 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?