Bowen wrote:
> brink;449934 Wrote:
>> Bowen,
>>
>> It looks like you have enough space allocated.
>>
>> Do you have a 3rd party program that may be deleting them? See:
>>
>> 'Missing Restore Points/Shadow Copies in Windows Vista:'
>> (http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrpv.html)
>>
>> Shawn
>
> The only 3rd party app I have that I've run since actually looking at
> System Restore is Perfect Disk which is a disk defragger that you're
> probably familiar with. Before I was thinking if a 3rd party app was
> interfering in some way, but I couldn't think of what it might be save
> Perfect Disk or a few Registry cleaners that I use. Speaking of which,
> I use: TuneUp Utilities 2007's reg cleaner and the the free reg cleaner
> called Wise Registry Cleaner and finally TweakNow's Powerpack 2006's reg
> cleaner.
>
> I don't think it's the reg cleaners because I remember previously that
> I looked at System Restore prior to running the reg cleaners and my
> restore points were still there after I ran them and even after
> rebooting. I didn't look before or after I ran Perfect Disk though, so
> maybe that's the culprit. The thing is, I was using Diskeeper 11 and I
> had the same problems, so either Diskeeper and Perfect Disk are erasing
> restore points or it's another problem.

Hi Shawn,

Yes, Perfect Disk may be responsible for missing restore points particularly
if it is run before Vista loads.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
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