Me? Well, yes. Never changed defaults in XP too. There was UI to control
space allocation but apparently it was removed in Vista.

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Alexander Suhovey

"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> wrote in message
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>
> Alexander
>
> Surely there is a more user friendly interface than directly editing the
> Registry? There was one in Windows XP!
>
> Are you accepting the 15% default?
>
>
> --
>
> Regards.
>
> Gerry
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> FCA
> Stourport, England
> Enquire, plan and execute
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>
> Alexander Suhovey wrote:[color=green]
>> Gerry,
>>
>> There's a DiskPercent entry under
>> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\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.
>>
>>
>> "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> wrote in message
>> news:Oq6aY4MPHHA.4172@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> 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?[/color][/color]
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