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Strange System Restore behavior
System restore is acting really strange on my system to a degree I've never seen before. I 1st noticed it about a week ago. I had roughly 320GB free on my hard drives and all of the sudden over a weeks time it would continually drop. Day 2 it went to about 305GB, then 299 to 285 etc. until it got down to 261GB free. I wasn't downloading anything, making any changes I was merely moving data between 2 NAS's and some simple email, web browsing periodically etc. I could literally just refresh the my computer window and see gigs disappear right before my eyes. I tried several virus scans, win defender, avast, malwarebytes, ccleaner. nothing found. I cleaned all temp files, browser history, recycle bin etc, I may've gained a gig or 2 only to watch it disappear shortly after so I looked at my system restore. It was set to use all available space and all the restore points looked fine so I cleared them all and all my hd space returned. So I set it back to only use 10% and saved and closed. A day later I saw the hard drive space disappearing again and went back to restore. It was back to using 100% with no new restore points but it let me delete again and I turned off system restore. Since I turned it off my free space remains. Other than this my system runs fine, no lag, never slow, nothing odd in the windows task manager and no errors of any kind. Is this a common issue with system restore that any of you have seen before? It has saved me in the past but not for a while, should I just leave it off? Thanks for any info provided. I'm running Win 7 Ultimate x64.