| Subject: Loss of System Restore Points using Vista |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance |
| Date: 7/12/2008 1:12:00 PM |
| From: =?Utf-8?B?ZXBlcm96emk=?= [Email Address Protection] |
I am using Windows Vista Home Basic operating system on my Toshiba Satellite A205 laptop computer. The problem I am running into is that most of the system restore points I or the system creates are gone after a few days (possibly with a new startup although I am not sure about this) with the exception of only a day or two of the most recent ones. I have a 120 GB hard drive with about 50 GB of free space. I am not able and/or have not figured out how to see how much space the system restore program allots so if someone knows how to determine this and how to change the amount of space reserved for the system restore point storage to a larger value this would be appreciated. My guess is that the program default for the system restore point storage may be set too low. When I used to have the XP Professional operating system (with a much smaller hard drive), my restore points would stick around for 2-3 months. Any thoughts on how to keep these restore points in Vista? |
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| Subject: Re: Loss of System Restore Points using Vista |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance |
| Date: 7/13/2008 4:08:05 PM |
| From: "Rick Rogers" [Email Address Protection] |
Hi eperozzi, The default is 15% of the drive space, and you would have either needed to change it manually or be running low on disk space for this to change. The command is vssadmin, and to see what is set you need to use the command prompt (cmd) with elevated privileges. Click start and type CMD, then right click the menu entry and choose 'run as administrator'. From the prompt, run vssadmin list shadowstorage The 'maximum' line should represent the amount of allocated disk space and at 120GB this should be around 18GB. vssadmin list shadows This will list the current points that are stored and available. To adjust the amount of space allocated, run: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /? It will give you the necessary parameters. For example, to increase to 20GB it'd be: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=C: /on=C: /maxsize=20000MB -- 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 "eperozzi" <eperozzi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4ECE759E-C1DE-4ED0-B3A8-81FB70F8744F@microsoft.com... >I am using Windows Vista Home Basic operating system on my Toshiba >Satellite > A205 laptop computer. The problem I am running into is that most of the > system restore points I or the system creates are gone after a few days > (possibly with a new startup although I am not sure about this) with the > exception of only a day or two of the most recent ones. I have a 120 GB > hard > drive with about 50 GB of free space. I am not able and/or have not > figured > out how to see how much space the system restore program allots so if > someone > knows how to determine this and how to change the amount of space reserved > for the system restore point storage to a larger value this would be > appreciated. My guess is that the program default for the system restore > point storage may be set too low. When I used to have the XP Professional > operating system (with a much smaller hard drive), my restore points would > stick around for 2-3 months. Any thoughts on how to keep these restore > points in Vista? |
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| Subject: Re: Loss of System Restore Points using Vista |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance |
| Date: 7/13/2008 5:00:20 PM |
| From: Nonny [Email Address Protection] |
On Jul 12, 3:12=A0pm, eperozzi <epero...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I am using Windows Vista Home Basic operating system on my Toshiba Satell= ite > A205 laptop computer. =A0The problem I am running into is that most of th= e > system restore points I or the system creates are gone after a few days > (possibly with a new startup although I am not sure about this) with the > exception of only a day or two of the most recent ones. =A0 In addition to what Rick Rogers said to do: make SURE you have the box checked that will let you see all restore points older than 5 days. |
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