thanks for info

Does the process in this tutorial result in the deletion of all previous RESTORE PTS? If not, is the process pertinent to WINDOWS 7 HOME? I do not think LOCAL GROUP POLICY editor is available in WIN7 HOME.

I need to install a bunch of drivers for LabVIEW & all of the intermediate RESTORE PTS are unnecessary so I want to create 1 & then disable SYS PROTECTION.

Brink said:

Hello betaupsilon,

This will disable system protection without deleting your current restore points.

Since you have the Home Premium edition of Windows 7, you would have to use OPTION ONE to set the policy in Registry Editor instead of in OPTION TWO with Group Policy.

If you wanted to delete all restore points, then you could use the tutorial below to turn off system protection instead.

System Protection - Turn On or Off

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

Thanks, I will give this a shot & report back. I was about to abandon hope & proceed to install all of the drivers & simply turn off SYS PROTECTION if all of my previous RESTORE PTS were going to be written over.

BRINK,

Well I did give it a try & it seemed to have worked. But another question I have is about system imaging & the RESTORE PTS. The RESTOR PTS are not preserved when reconstructing a system image, correct?

Brink said:

Correct. Restore points are not included in a system image.

betaupsilon said:

BRINK,

Well I did give it a try & it seemed to have worked. But another question I have is about system imaging & the RESTORE PTS. The RESTOR PTS are not preserved when reconstructing a system image, correct?

Hi Shawn,
You answered the above few months ago correctly. As a follow on to this subject I noticed a peculiarity about the "SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION" directory in which all of the restore points reside. I recently did a fresh system image using the WIN7 backup utility (not a RESTORE) & noticed that the "SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION" directory got modified with what I am guessing is attributed to the backup image. It is quite large > 0.5 Gb. Is this redundant?

If I create a system image on an external drive what is the point of including any information in the "SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION" on the system partition that I imaged? Can I delete that large file safely?

The file is identified as:
{34933f4d-3fd1-11e5-991c-00219xxxxxx}{3808836b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046xxxxxx}
I substituted in x's for safeguards.

I am not sure how to read the contents, but I imagine it is jibberish to me. Is this file necessary? If the system fails I restore the image by booting from a WIN7 CD & execute the image reconstruction. I can even do that if I actually wipe the hard drive prior to reconstruction.

Your thoughts?