System Protection - Change Disk Space Usage

GradeAbra said:

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

Nice soon to be tut, thanks, works nicely.

Bookmarked...

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.

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 said:

Brink said:

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.

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.