Restore Points Gone

I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my restore
points prior to the update are gone.
Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently delete
them?

It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a clean
and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the restore
pointd disappeared.

Thanks

DD

Did you install service pack 2? This would cause the previous restore points
to be eliminated as they are of no use after SP2 has been installed. If they
were there, and you tried to use them, you would have huge problems.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"DaveD" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my restore
>points prior to the update are gone.
> Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently delete
> them?
>
> It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a clean
> and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the restore
> pointd disappeared.
>
> Thanks
>
> DD

Adding to Shawn's answer. Norton is another culprit. Do you have Norton installed

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"DaveD" <> wrote in message news:...
>I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my restore
> points prior to the update are gone.
> Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently delete
> them?
>
> It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a clean
> and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the restore
> pointd disappeared.
>
> Thanks
>
> DD
>

"DaveD" <> wrote in message
news:...
> I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my restore
> points prior to the update are gone.
> Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently delete
> them?
>
> It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a clean
> and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the restore
> pointd disappeared.
>
> Thanks
>
> DD

SP2 install will remove restore points.

It might be that Microsoft feels restoring to a previous restore point over
SP2 would cause more problems.

You think?

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Tae Song" <> wrote in message
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>
> "DaveD" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my restore
>> points prior to the update are gone.
>> Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently delete
>> them?
>>
>> It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a clean
>> and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the
>> restore pointd disappeared.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> DD
>
> SP2 install will remove restore points.
>
> It might be that Microsoft feels restoring to a previous restore point
> over SP2 would cause more problems.

"Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
news:...
> You think?
>
> --
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience
>
>
> "Tae Song" <> wrote in message
> news4449EDB-CB9B-4A90-B47E-...
>>
>> "DaveD" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my restore
>>> points prior to the update are gone.
>>> Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently
>>> delete them?
>>>
>>> It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a
>>> clean and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the
>>> restore pointd disappeared.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> DD
>>
>> SP2 install will remove restore points.
>>
>> It might be that Microsoft feels restoring to a previous restore point
>> over SP2 would cause more problems.
>

I suspect restoring to a previous points over regular updates could
potentially cause problems, too.

Thanks for the suggestions, but none of the above (below)

I already had SP 2.
I don't dual boot.
There is plenty of space for shadow copies/restore points
I forgot to mention I'm using Vista64. I don't know if that's relevant.

Maybe it's something I did, but I sure don't remember deleting restore
points.
Like I said -no biggie, but it surprised me to see them gone.

DD


"DaveD" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my restore
>points prior to the update are gone.
> Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently delete
> them?
>
> It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a clean
> and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the restore
> pointd disappeared.
>
> Thanks
>
> DD

Disk Cleanup perhaps?

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"DaveD" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Thanks for the suggestions, but none of the above (below)
>
> I already had SP 2.
> I don't dual boot.
> There is plenty of space for shadow copies/restore points
> I forgot to mention I'm using Vista64. I don't know if that's relevant.
>
> Maybe it's something I did, but I sure don't remember deleting restore
> points.
> Like I said -no biggie, but it surprised me to see them gone.
>
> DD
>
>
> "DaveD" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my restore
>>points prior to the update are gone.
>> Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently delete
>> them?
>>
>> It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a clean
>> and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the
>> restore pointd disappeared.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> DD
>

Yeah, I've used that option before, but I haven't intentionally used it
recently. Maybe I did it in my sleep... ;-)
Anyway, it looks like it was NOT done by the MS update, or everyone else
would be experiencing it.
I'll just have to keep an eye on my restore points after the next update and
see what happens.

DD


"Brink" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Dave,
>
> There is an option in 'Disk Cleanup'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...k-cleanup.html) to delete
> all but the most recent restore point. You may have deleted them from
> there.
>
>
> DaveD;1062829 Wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestions, but none of the above (below)
>>
>> I already had SP 2.
>> I don't dual boot.
>> There is plenty of space for shadow copies/restore points
>> I forgot to mention I'm using Vista64. I don't know if that's relevant.
>>
>> Maybe it's something I did, but I sure don't remember deleting restore
>> points.
>> Like I said -no biggie, but it surprised me to see them gone.
>>
>> DD
>>
>>
>> "DaveD" <dd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:uBzk8mX6JHA.3860@xxxxxx> > >
>> > >I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my
>> > restore
>> > >points prior to the update are gone.
>> > > Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently
>> > delete
>> > > them?
>> > >
>> > > It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a
>> > clean
>> > > and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the
>> > restore
>> > > pointd disappeared.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks
>> > >
>> > > DD > >
>
>
> --
> Brink
>
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"DaveD" <> wrote:

>I just installed today's Vista updates and later noticed all my restore
>points prior to the update are gone.
>Is this everyone's experience, or did I do something to accidently delete
>them?
>
>It's not really a problem, as I just finished a reinstall and had a clean
>and stable config before the update, but I'm curious as to why the restore
>pointd disappeared.

When I installed SP2 on my machine, the same thing happened so I
assumed that it was "normal".

This past weekend I visited a friend who only has dialup, so I took
the full SP2 download with me and installed it.

No loss of restore points.

Both of us have Home Basic. My system is set to only use 5GB of disk
space for System Restore. His was set to use the standard percentage
of his disk space.

I attribute the difference between our two machines to that.