Windows 7 - System Protection - Change Disk Space Usage

Brink · 11-04-2008

How to Change the System Protection Disk Space Usage in Window 7

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Brink · 05-28-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by GradeAbra

I use Disk Clean up(option 2). I notice that it does not delete Shadow Copies only restore points. So how can i clean up shadow copies?

GradeAbra,

You could do this to only delete shadow copies. A soon to be tutorial later.

New tutorial:
How to Delete Shadow Copies in Vista and Windows 7

Dave76 · 05-29-2011

Nice soon to be tut, thanks, works nicely.

Bookmarked...

GradeAbra · 05-29-2011

Thanks alot. This is great. Does this delete you last restore point too? Because i notice that my restore point is gone. I got back all the 3GB.

Brink · 05-29-2011

GradeAbra,

Yep, shadow copies (previous versions) is consisted of restore points and Windows Backups (if created), so any shadow copy volumes deleted will also delete the restore point that they were part of.

Stryker94 · 05-29-2011

Useful tip.. Thanks alot mate you just helped me save gigs of space

Brink · 05-29-2011

You're welcome Stryker,

Just remember to have enough max space set to be able to keep a few restore points stored if needed. A restore point could save you from having to do a clean install of Windows 7 if something should go wrong.

GradeAbra · 05-30-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

You're welcome Stryker,

Just remember to have enough max space set to be able to keep a few restore points stored if needed. A restore point could save you from having to do a clean install of Windows 7 if something should go wrong.

Is there anyway to set or create a permanently restore point? Or prevent it from getting deleted automatically?

Brink · 05-30-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by GradeAbra

Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

You're welcome Stryker,

Just remember to have enough max space set to be able to keep a few restore points stored if needed. A restore point could save you from having to do a clean install of Windows 7 if something should go wrong.

Is there anyway to set or create a permanently restore point? Or prevent it from getting deleted automatically?

I'm afraid not using a restore point, but creating a system image backup would be a much more effective way backing up everything though. Now that would be one good restore point.

Teerex · 07-29-2011

Hi Brink

I played with the System restore settings on the volumes where it was off (turned it On, changed sizes, finally turned it off). Now I can't get maxusage on the drives where system protection is off back to 0 as it was before, bellow 1%. What can I do to make it so again?

Brink · 07-29-2011

Hello Tomislav,

Yeah, this is normal. System protection has to be turned on for the volume to be able to adjust it's maxusage. When off, it's not using any of the drive's space for system protection, and deletes what was used prior to turning it off.

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