How do you delete restore points ?

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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:55:51 GMT, "jimbo" <owl2@herandnow.com> wrote:

>Anyone any idea how to delete old restore points ?

In explorer right click your OS-drive, select "Properties", click
"Disk Cleanup". Then it's

More Options | System Restore.
 
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OK got it

Thanks Thomas !

It's a pity XP will not let you choose which ones you want to retain ?

Thanks

Jim


"Thomas Jespersen" <thomas@lucky-music.dk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:55:51 GMT, "jimbo" <owl2@herandnow.com> wrote:
>
>>Anyone any idea how to delete old restore points ?
>
> In explorer right click your OS-drive, select "Properties", click
> "Disk Cleanup". Then it's
>
> More Options | System Restore.
 
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actually you can shorten the days to live of restore points and kill off
older ones that way
... default is save 90 days ,
which in windows time is 7776000 seconds 😉

I've set mine to 10 days
easily understood as 86400 seconds per day x 10

but log on as admin or turn off restore I haven't figured out yet,,, resets
it to 90 days.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
\Microsoft\Windows NT
\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore
"RPLifeInterval"

"jimbo" <owl2@herandnow.com> wrote in message
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> OK got it
>
> Thanks Thomas !
>
> It's a pity XP will not let you choose which ones you want to retain ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim
>
>
> "Thomas Jespersen" <thomas@lucky-music.dk> wrote in message
> news:g7mkg1p74nbnid5foe0ivmqacd2mg0l7it@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:55:51 GMT, "jimbo" <owl2@herandnow.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Anyone any idea how to delete old restore points ?
>>
>> In explorer right click your OS-drive, select "Properties", click
>> "Disk Cleanup". Then it's
>>
>> More Options | System Restore.
>
>
 
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bumtracks wrote:
> actually you can shorten the days to live of restore points and kill off
> older ones that way
> .. default is save 90 days ,
> which in windows time is 7776000 seconds 😉
>
> I've set mine to 10 days
> easily understood as 86400 seconds per day x 10
>
> but log on as admin or turn off restore I haven't figured out yet,,, resets
> it to 90 days.
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
> \Microsoft\Windows NT
> \CurrentVersion\SystemRestore
> "RPLifeInterval"
>
> "jimbo" <owl2@herandnow.com> wrote in message
> news:TgsOe.142$aC1.17@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
>
>>OK got it
>>
>>Thanks Thomas !
>>
>>It's a pity XP will not let you choose which ones you want to retain ?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Jim
>>
>>
>>"Thomas Jespersen" <thomas@lucky-music.dk> wrote in message
>>news:g7mkg1p74nbnid5foe0ivmqacd2mg0l7it@4ax.com...
>>
>>>On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:55:51 GMT, "jimbo" <owl2@herandnow.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Anyone any idea how to delete old restore points ?
>>>
>>>In explorer right click your OS-drive, select "Properties", click
>>>"Disk Cleanup". Then it's
>>>
>>>More Options | System Restore.
>>
>>
>
>
You can both turn off, and alternately, disable the
restore system. It isn't advisable to disable restore unless
you have a backup program available, and have run a full
backup at least once.

--
Lester Stiefel
In Romans 1 there are qualities of Unregenerate man listed
which describe him in the last days.
Is your quality found on this list??
 
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jimbo wrote:

> OK got it
>
> Thanks Thomas !
>
> It's a pity XP will not let you choose which ones you want to retain ?


That's correct. You can delete all, all but the last one, or none.

That's because restore points are not stand-alone, but modify previous ones.
Think of them as something like incremental backups. If they were
stand-alone, you could choose which to delete, but they would take up much
more disk space.

--
Ken Blake
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Ok

Thanks for the explanation Ken

Jim


"Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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> jimbo wrote:
>
>> OK got it
>>
>> Thanks Thomas !
>>
>> It's a pity XP will not let you choose which ones you want to retain ?
>
>
> That's correct. You can delete all, all but the last one, or none.
>
> That's because restore points are not stand-alone, but modify previous
> ones. Think of them as something like incremental backups. If they were
> stand-alone, you could choose which to delete, but they would take up much
> more disk space.
>
> --
> Ken Blake
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>
 
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jimbo wrote:

> Ok
>
> Thanks for the explanation Ken


You're welcome, Jim. Glad to help.

--
Ken Blake
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


> "Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:%23nQXMJ$pFHA.620@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> jimbo wrote:
>>
>>> OK got it
>>>
>>> Thanks Thomas !
>>>
>>> It's a pity XP will not let you choose which ones you want to
>>> retain ?
>>
>>
>> That's correct. You can delete all, all but the last one, or none.
>>
>> That's because restore points are not stand-alone, but modify
>> previous ones. Think of them as something like incremental backups.
>> If they were stand-alone, you could choose which to delete, but they
>> would take up much more disk space.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake
>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
 
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Hi,

You will find a script on the following page to automate this process.

System Restore Scripts
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srscripts.html

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org

bumtracks wrote:
> actually you can shorten the days to live of restore
> points and kill off older ones that way
> .. default is save 90 days ,
> which in windows time is 7776000 seconds 😉
>
> I've set mine to 10 days
> easily understood as 86400 seconds per day x 10
>
> but log on as admin or turn off restore I haven't figured
> out yet,,, resets it to 90 days.
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
> \Microsoft\Windows NT
> \CurrentVersion\SystemRestore "RPLifeInterval"
>
> "jimbo" <owl2@herandnow.com> wrote in message
> news:TgsOe.142$aC1.17@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
>> OK got it
>>
>> Thanks Thomas !
>>
>> It's a pity XP will not let you choose which ones you
>> want to retain ? Thanks
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> "Thomas Jespersen" <thomas@lucky-music.dk> wrote in
>> message
>> news:g7mkg1p74nbnid5foe0ivmqacd2mg0l7it@4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 21:55:51 GMT, "jimbo"
>>> <owl2@herandnow.com> wrote:
>>>> Anyone any idea how to delete old restore points ?
>>>
>>> In explorer right click your OS-drive, select
>>> "Properties", click "Disk Cleanup". Then it's
>>>
>>> More Options | System Restore.
 
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