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Marjay
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      07-21-2007
Is there a way to control or delete the number of restore points or
shadow copies that Vista creates. I have more than 50 and it
definately takes up more than 15% (closer to 30%) of my drive which is
ridiculous!

thanks
 
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Rick Rogers
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      07-21-2007
Hi,

Yes, but it's not a simple setting, see:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm

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"Marjay" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Is there a way to control or delete the number of restore points or
> shadow copies that Vista creates. I have more than 50 and it
> definately takes up more than 15% (closer to 30%) of my drive which is
> ridiculous!
>
> thanks


 
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Lord Takyon
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      07-21-2007
"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Yes, but it's not a simple setting, see:
> http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Marjay" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Is there a way to control or delete the number of restore points or
>> shadow copies that Vista creates. I have more than 50 and it
>> definately takes up more than 15% (closer to 30%) of my drive which is
>> ridiculous!
>>
>> thanks

>



It is not particularly difficult to do, but you do need to read up first so
you know what you are doing. I used vssadmin to set mine to just 5 gig as I
rarely need the backups. My restore etc was also taking up a lot more space
than they said it would, mine hit around 25-30%.

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Bert Kinney
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      07-22-2007
Hi Marjay,

How to adjust disk space in Windows Vista:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspacev.html

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Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
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Marjay wrote:
> Is there a way to control or delete the number of restore points or
> shadow copies that Vista creates. I have more than 50 and it
> definately takes up more than 15% (closer to 30%) of my drive which is
> ridiculous!
>
> thanks

 
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