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System Restore causing heavy disk use after several years. Why now?
I have had a Windows 7 desktop system running at home for several years. In just the last few weeks, I noticed very slow system performance and noticed the disk usage light was on pretty much constantly.
So I started looking at Resource Monitor and found that all the excess disk usage was due to pid 4 and using file names all starting with “System Volume Information”. See the screen shot below.
With a little research I found this was all due to the System Restore feature. When I disabled SR, the heavy disk use stopped and my performance returned to nice and snappy.
My question though is why now after several years did System Restore start causing problems? I have never touched the SR setting before. It never seemed to cause problem before.