ah okay, well mines disables and i have 5Gb still allocated according to the command line, can i remove it and will that give me an additional 5gb on my drive or not? i disabled restore through the GUI and gained around 8gb back already iirc
cheers
Ben
That's usually a very bad decision unless it's a short-term situation where you are really in a jam for space.
System Restore is a highly valuable part of Windows. I'd give it at least 3 to 5 GB unless I was suffering with a very small drive. Even then, I'd try to find another way to save space.
In principle I would not disagree. But system restore is a very iffy function and often restore points vanish for no apparent reason.
For backup protection I really recommend to go with imaging (but not the windows imaging, that sucks). Restore points i keep only out of tradition hoping they stick around.
man 24 gb are you kidding me op!
get bigger drive,but wait till the prices go back to normal!
thailand flood is making hdd expensive
i see it here, its allocated but not actually in use, is that right?
i have absolutely no use for restore at all, my system is stable and very minimalist. i backup once a week and take a system image after every major install/upgrade so its just wasted space that windows uses to slow down my PC
cheers for the input people and sorry to the O/P for bit of a thread hi-jack but i spose any info on topic is useful!
That is OK. If you disabled restore, it will not use it. It is just keeping the setting in case you enable restore again.see it here, its allocated but not actually in use, is that right?
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