recovery files

Curious wrote:
> You are confusing the recovery partition files which your PC
> manufacturer provides with the original system so that you can rebuild
> the entire OS with the Restore Points which the OS provides so you can
> back up to a previous date/time.
>
> "charles cashion" wrote in message
>
>> Vista Home Premium
>> I wanted to deleted the older recovery files,
>> but found that I could delete all or nothing.
>> ?Q: Is there a way to selectively delete
>> recovery points files?
>> Charles
>
Let me see if I can word this correctly...
I thought I could selectively remove restore points.
I am certain that I have done this, but I cannot remember
how long ago I did this.
I just discovered that I can remove all or nothing.
Am I on the wrong screen?
Charles

Restore points might be (almost) a red herring. I would
like the answer to selective removal of restore points,
but the real problem is: something is filling my hard drive.
When I first started using my new Vista Home Premium,
my total disk usage was about 11GB. Now C:\Windows
takes 22GB while c:\users\cmcnuz takes about 2.5GB.
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 >> Stay informed about: recovery files 

There is a program called CCLEANER that lets you
remove individual restore points among other things
its is quite safe but I would suggest not running the
registry cleaner part of it

try Googling for it. It is a free download

peter

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"charles cashion" wrote in message

> Curious wrote:
>> You are confusing the recovery partition files which your PC manufacturer
>> provides with the original system so that you can rebuild the entire OS
>> with the Restore Points which the OS provides so you can back up to a
>> previous date/time.
>>
>> "charles cashion" wrote in message
>>
>>> Vista Home Premium
>>> I wanted to deleted the older recovery files,
>>> but found that I could delete all or nothing.
>>> ?Q: Is there a way to selectively delete
>>> recovery points files?
>>> Charles
>>
> Let me see if I can word this correctly...
> I thought I could selectively remove restore points.
> I am certain that I have done this, but I cannot remember
> how long ago I did this.
> I just discovered that I can remove all or nothing.
> Am I on the wrong screen?
> Charles
>
> Restore points might be (almost) a red herring. I would
> like the answer to selective removal of restore points,
> but the real problem is: something is filling my hard drive.
> When I first started using my new Vista Home Premium,
> my total disk usage was about 11GB. Now C:\Windows
> takes 22GB while c:\users\cmcnuz takes about 2.5GB.
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> cc
 >> Stay informed about: recovery files 

you cannot (as far as I know) selectively remove recovery points. You can
remove all but the last. The system will remove the oldest one if it needs
the space.

Michael


"charles cashion" wrote in message

> Curious wrote:
>> You are confusing the recovery partition files which your PC manufacturer
>> provides with the original system so that you can rebuild the entire OS
>> with the Restore Points which the OS provides so you can back up to a
>> previous date/time.
>>
>> "charles cashion" wrote in message
>>
>>> Vista Home Premium
>>> I wanted to deleted the older recovery files,
>>> but found that I could delete all or nothing.
>>> ?Q: Is there a way to selectively delete
>>> recovery points files?
>>> Charles
>>
> Let me see if I can word this correctly...
> I thought I could selectively remove restore points.
> I am certain that I have done this, but I cannot remember
> how long ago I did this.
> I just discovered that I can remove all or nothing.
> Am I on the wrong screen?
> Charles
>
> Restore points might be (almost) a red herring. I would
> like the answer to selective removal of restore points,
> but the real problem is: something is filling my hard drive.
> When I first started using my new Vista Home Premium,
> my total disk usage was about 11GB. Now C:\Windows
> takes 22GB while c:\users\cmcnuz takes about 2.5GB.
> --
> cc
 >> Stay informed about: recovery files 

You cannot selectively delete restore points - they are threaded and require
a complete start-to-end path to work correctly. Removing one or more in the
middle would result in unusable restore points. Same for the files that
comprise them - all or nothing.

"charles cashion" wrote in message

> Vista Home Premium
> I wanted to deleted the older recovery files,
> but found that I could delete all or nothing.
> ?Q: Is there a way to selectively delete
> recovery points files?
> Charles
 >> Stay informed about: recovery files 

Richard G. Harper wrote:
> You cannot selectively delete restore points - they are threaded and
> require a complete start-to-end path to work correctly. Removing one or
> more in the middle would result in unusable restore points. Same for
> the files that comprise them - all or nothing.
>
> "charles cashion" wrote in message
>
>> Vista Home Premium
>> I wanted to deleted the older recovery files,
>> but found that I could delete all or nothing.
>> ?Q: Is there a way to selectively delete
>> recovery points files?
>> Charles
>
I ended up deleting ALL.
It released about 18GB.

When I purchased this machine, it had a 120GB
hard drive and only about 11GB were used. It
now has 30GB in use and everything under
c:\users\charles counts for 4.5GB.
Somebody (something?) is hoarding bytes! !
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 >> Stay informed about: recovery files 

Hi,

By default, Vista reserves 15% of the drive space for system restore. On a
120GB drive, that'd be 18GB. You can use the vssadmin command to reduce this
allotment if you wish to have fewer points, it's use is described here:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspacev.html

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"charles cashion" wrote in message

> Richard G. Harper wrote:
>> You cannot selectively delete restore points - they are threaded and
>> require a complete start-to-end path to work correctly. Removing one or
>> more in the middle would result in unusable restore points. Same for the
>> files that comprise them - all or nothing.
>>
>> "charles cashion" wrote in message
>>
>>> Vista Home Premium
>>> I wanted to deleted the older recovery files,
>>> but found that I could delete all or nothing.
>>> ?Q: Is there a way to selectively delete
>>> recovery points files?
>>> Charles
>>
> I ended up deleting ALL.
> It released about 18GB.
>
> When I purchased this machine, it had a 120GB
> hard drive and only about 11GB were used. It
> now has 30GB in use and everything under
> c:\users\charles counts for 4.5GB.
> Somebody (something?) is hoarding bytes! !
> --
> cc
>
 >> Stay informed about: recovery files 

There is no way for selective deletion. Absolutely none - believe me.


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 >> Stay informed about: recovery files 

Rick,
Thanks for the info. That is good to know.
--cc

Rick Rogers wrote:
> By default, Vista reserves 15% of the drive space for system restore. On
> a 120GB drive, that'd be 18GB. You can use the vssadmin command to
> reduce this allotment if you wish to have fewer points, it's use is
> described here: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspacev.html
>
 >> Stay informed about: recovery files