You should read Bert's site
System Restore in Windows Vista: [url]http://bertk.mvps.org/html/vista.html[/url]
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Mark L. Ferguson
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"Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour******.com> wrote in message
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> "Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>> I agree, it does sound strange. My guess would be you need some part of
>> that previous registry to use the older points. The relationship there is
>> additive, and I suppose it possible that your current setup actually is
>> the source of the original problem (and that app install only triggered
>> it)
>> Personally, I would be better safe than sorry, backup in prep of a fail,
>> and turn off restore to blank it, and kind of go from there. If something
>> is fragile, you don't want to depend on system restore. You need data
>> backup.[/color]
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> Actually, the problem appears a little more complex. Now I can only see
> restore points created today and the Undo restore point has vanished.
> There is plenty of disk space available so I would not have expected such
> relatively recent points to be deleted.
>
> Are there any factors other than available disk space that control the
> maintenance of restore points? Why is it only keeping "young" points?
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