Restore points are huge

jfar said:

Here is mine and I have never touched it.
IMO, you only need your last two Restore points, anything else is not needed .


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i agree. 2-3 restore points is ideal. So what would make a restore point become so bloated? I have set the space for the restore points low and they have exceeded the size allocation and become huge.

I am still not clear whether we talk about restore points or images. Restore points should be 250MB to 1GB (depending on the size of your system). Images, however, can be up to 60GB (at least that's what I have experienced with a fully loaded (Vista) system.

Well if it was my machine, I would delete them all except the last two, set it to the same as mine and keep your
eye on it for a couple of days. I don't know why it should go so high unless it was set high to begin with,
but you said you set it low.

Well the Op said Restore points.?

jfar said:

Well the Op said Restore points.?

i see two images listed in restore when i click on the show more restore points, these images appear to be invalid as i have deleted all images before and when i click on the listed images in the restore list they say they are invalid.

jfar said:

Well if it was my machine, I would delete them all except the last two, set it to the same as mine and keep your
eye on it for a couple of days. I don't know why it should go so high unless it was set high to begin with,
but you said you set it low.

one more thing. could the scrp script for creating manual restore points be the issue? It should be noted that all of my points are manual.

Well then I would delete all the restore points that you have, "if you can" and when all are deleted,
I would set it to what mine was reading and make a new restore point, and start afresh.

Just a thought, have you got TuneUp utillities or some registry cleaner installed.?

jfar said:

Well then I would delete all the restore points that you have, "if you can" and when all are deleted,
I would set it to what mine was reading and make a new restore point, and start afresh.

Just a thought, have you got TuneUp utillities or some registry cleaner installed.?

yea, tuneup 2010 and registry mechanic installed

Well I had Tuneup installed Last year and I uninstalled it, it caused a bit of grief to my registry
and I remember it used to make a lot of Back ups, a lot of them, so maybe that could be your problem,
I'm not saying it is but I would think about it.

I would uninstall both of them for a month and see if there is any difference with your system,
I don't think you will even miss them, I haven't.