Is there a way to delete selected system restore points?


  1. soho1
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    Is there a way to delete selected system restore points?


    I have about 50 GB of system restore points. and many of these are good that I really want to keep. However, recently (today) I got a couple of new restore points generated as Windows applied "critical updates" and sure enough, my PC went critical, rolled over and died, each of these being worthless. So, I restored to my last known good restore point from yesterday, and everything is beautiful again. I want to delete these nasty suckers, but keep the other historical restore points.

    Many users just make a new restore point and then delete all the old ones, which if they had any comon sense would test before purging, but i would MUCH rather just delete the offensive restore points only. Does anyone know of a tool to handle this?
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  3. pbcopter
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    You could use CCleaner to delete individual restore points.

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  4. soho1
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    Awesome! I've used CCleaner on and off over the years and never noticed it could do this. TYVM
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  6. pbcopter
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    You're welcome!
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  7. RolandJS
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    Another good tool, but not quite as strong as ccleaner, that will do likewise is WindowsClub's System Restore Points Manager. I have this as a backup tool just in case my main one is temporarily not working.
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