Vista System Restore -- how do I get it to run only once a week?

I have Vista Premium Home Edition on a 2-month old Gateway, and am
reasonably well pleased with performance... have SuperReadyBoostFetch
and all that other hard-drive-thrashing crap turned off, and currently
have it set to create a fresh restore point every Sunday. Despite
this, I cannot for love or money keep System Restore from running
EVERY SINGLE TIME I get any sort of software patch or update. Windows
update? Firefox or Norton update? Scratch my arse? System Restore
cranks up, kidnaps my box for an hour and a half, and sits there
grinding away. Can't play games and even switching between songs in
Media Player becomes tiresomely slow.

Plus my HD is a particular model of Seagate that is *LOUD*. Sounds
like midgets munching granola in there, and it's just plain
irritating. And I'm sure this crap is stripping months off my hard
drive's lifespan. How on Earth do I turn it off, short of disabling
System Restore altogether? Is this just the price you pay for having
Vista?

"Rivenshield" <> wrote in message
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>I have Vista Premium Home Edition on a 2-month old Gateway, and am
> reasonably well pleased with performance... have SuperReadyBoostFetch
> and all that other hard-drive-thrashing crap turned off, and currently
> have it set to create a fresh restore point every Sunday. Despite
> this, I cannot for love or money keep System Restore from running
> EVERY SINGLE TIME I get any sort of software patch or update. Windows
> update? Firefox or Norton update? Scratch my arse? System Restore
> cranks up, kidnaps my box for an hour and a half, and sits there
> grinding away. Can't play games and even switching between songs in
> Media Player becomes tiresomely slow.

Two points. Firstly, System restore is meant to restore your system if an
UPDATE or something similar goes wrong, which is why it creates a SR point
when your system changes. Therefore there is NO point in creating a System
restore point every Sunday. It's not a backup, it's a get out of jail card.
Secondly, having turned off all the " SuperReadyBoostFetch and all that
other hard-drive-thrashing crap " (your words) is probably why it takes an
hour and a half to do the restore point. Vista is DESIGNED to work with
prefetch so turning it off, is a bit silly IMHO.
My system restore is set to the default setings and I don't even notice it's
working, so something YOU turned off has created YOUR problem.