During the installation of a printer it was necessary to do
a System Restore several times.

This seems to have produced many files, printed in blue, on
the C:\System Volume Informatiuon drive\restore...folder
eg.
_restore{28E78E49-C773-4429-9791-EDC92051AAF4}

They all have the date the System Restore was performed.

Since these take up a lot of room, can I delete them?

Frank

On 11/27/2009 2:45 PM On a whim, Frank Martin pounded out on the keyboard

> During the installation of a printer it was necessary to do
> a System Restore several times.
>
> This seems to have produced many files, printed in blue, on
> the C:\System Volume Informatiuon drive\restore...folder
> eg.
> _restore{28E78E49-C773-4429-9791-EDC92051AAF4}
>
> They all have the date the System Restore was performed.
>
> Since these take up a lot of room, can I delete them?
>
> Frank
>
>

Hi Frank,

You shouldn't be messing with anything in that folder!


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Best to adjust the System Restore disk space usage settings instead.

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspace.html
How to Adjust the amount of disk space System Restore uses to hold
restore points

John

Frank Martin wrote:
> During the installation of a printer it was necessary to do
> a System Restore several times.
>
> This seems to have produced many files, printed in blue, on
> the C:\System Volume Informatiuon drive\restore...folder
> eg.
> _restore{28E78E49-C773-4429-9791-EDC92051AAF4}
>
> They all have the date the System Restore was performed.
>
> Since these take up a lot of room, can I delete them?
>
> Frank
>
>

Thanks, I have reduced the space for System Restore from 12%
to 9%.


"John John - MVP" <audetweld@nbnot.nb.ca> wrote in message
news:%232uWbZ7bKHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Best to adjust the System Restore disk space usage
> settings instead.
>
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspace.html
> How to Adjust the amount of disk space System Restore uses
> to hold restore points
>
> John
>
> Frank Martin wrote:
>> During the installation of a printer it was necessary to
>> do a System Restore several times.
>>
>> This seems to have produced many files, printed in blue,
>> on the C:\System Volume Informatiuon
>> drive\restore...folder
>> eg.
>> _restore{28E78E49-C773-4429-9791-EDC92051AAF4}
>>
>> They all have the date the System Restore was performed.
>>
>> Since these take up a lot of room, can I delete them?
>>
>> Frank

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:35:21 +1100, "Frank Martin" <fm@general.com.au>
wrote:

> Thanks, I have reduced the space for System Restore from 12%
> to 9%.




Here's my view on the amount of space you should have:

First, the number you select should be some number of GB, not a
percentage of the drive. It depends on how big your drive is, but 9%
sounds much too high to me.

I recommend that you reduce the amount to a week or two's worth
(around 1-2GB); the number you get with XP's default allocation is too
large. If you go back too far, you tend to get the registry out of
synch with other files on the drive. A lot of restore points aren't
really useful.



> "John John - MVP" <audetweld@nbnot.nb.ca> wrote in message
> news:%232uWbZ7bKHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > Best to adjust the System Restore disk space usage
> > settings instead.
> >
> > http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspace.html
> > How to Adjust the amount of disk space System Restore uses
> > to hold restore points
> >
> > John
> >
> > Frank Martin wrote:
> >> During the installation of a printer it was necessary to
> >> do a System Restore several times.
> >>
> >> This seems to have produced many files, printed in blue,
> >> on the C:\System Volume Informatiuon
> >> drive\restore...folder
> >> eg.
> >> _restore{28E78E49-C773-4429-9791-EDC92051AAF4}
> >>
> >> They all have the date the System Restore was performed.
> >>
> >> Since these take up a lot of room, can I delete them?
> >>
> >> Frank
>

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I took it back to 6% (about 4Gb) anfd now the free space on
the C: drive looks much healthier. I have to say that
the System Restore has been very useful on many occasions.
..
Frank


"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in
message news:3js0h5pqf74eiuvkn33sp82eidc9i16kdc@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:35:21 +1100, "Frank Martin"
> <fm@general.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, I have reduced the space for System Restore from
>> 12%
>> to 9%.
>
>
>
>
> Here's my view on the amount of space you should have:
>
> First, the number you select should be some number of GB,
> not a
> percentage of the drive. It depends on how big your drive
> is, but 9%
> sounds much too high to me.
>
> I recommend that you reduce the amount to a week or two's
> worth
> (around 1-2GB); the number you get with XP's default
> allocation is too
> large. If you go back too far, you tend to get the
> registry out of
> synch with other files on the drive. A lot of restore
> points aren't
> really useful.
>
>
>
>> "John John - MVP" <audetweld@nbnot.nb.ca> wrote in
>> message
>> news:%232uWbZ7bKHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> > Best to adjust the System Restore disk space usage
>> > settings instead.
>> >
>> > http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspace.html
>> > How to Adjust the amount of disk space System Restore
>> > uses
>> > to hold restore points
>> >
>> > John
>> >
>> > Frank Martin wrote:
>> >> During the installation of a printer it was necessary
>> >> to
>> >> do a System Restore several times.
>> >>
>> >> This seems to have produced many files, printed in
>> >> blue,
>> >> on the C:\System Volume Informatiuon
>> >> drive\restore...folder
>> >> eg.
>> >> _restore{28E78E49-C773-4429-9791-EDC92051AAF4}
>> >>
>> >> They all have the date the System Restore was
>> >> performed.
>> >>
>> >> Since these take up a lot of room, can I delete them?
>> >>
>> >> Frank
>>
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience)
> since 2003
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:24:40 +1100, "Frank Martin" <fm@general.com.au>
wrote:

> I took it back to 6% (about 4Gb) anfd now the free space on
> the C: drive looks much healthier. I have to say that
> the System Restore has been very useful on many occasions.


Five points:

1. I'm not questioning whether System Restore is useful. I completely
agree with you. The only question is how many restore points you
should keep, which governs how far back you can go.

2. 4GB will let you go back four weeks or more. I think that's too
much, and going back that far can often cause problems of its own (see
my quote below).

3. On the other hand, *if* you have sufficient disk space, I don't
strenuously to your having that much. My objection is to relying on
it, not to using the disk space.

4. So going from 12% to 6% saved you 4GB and that makes the free space
look much healthier? In my view, 4GB is a tiny amount of disk space;
You apparently have about a 60GB drive, and that's 1/16 of the drive,
about $3 (US) worth.

5. If saving 4GB of disk space is meaningful to you, that's highly
likely to be nothing but a stopgap measure, and you will soon find
yourself short of disk space again. These day, new drives are very
inexpensive and I highly recommend that you either replace your drive
with a bigger one or add another drive.



> "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in
> message news:3js0h5pqf74eiuvkn33sp82eidc9i16kdc@4ax.com...
> > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:35:21 +1100, "Frank Martin"
> > <fm@general.com.au>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks, I have reduced the space for System Restore from
> >> 12%
> >> to 9%.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here's my view on the amount of space you should have:
> >
> > First, the number you select should be some number of GB,
> > not a
> > percentage of the drive. It depends on how big your drive
> > is, but 9%
> > sounds much too high to me.
> >
> > I recommend that you reduce the amount to a week or two's
> > worth
> > (around 1-2GB); the number you get with XP's default
> > allocation is too
> > large. If you go back too far, you tend to get the
> > registry out of
> > synch with other files on the drive. A lot of restore
> > points aren't
> > really useful.

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