Re: System restore

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 05/08/04


Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 17:27:56 +0100

cabby wrote:

>No matter how hard I try I cannot get my computer to restore beyond the month (ie May). I cannot restore back to April or March or any other month.

Restore only keeps a limited number of points, and drops older ones as
new ones are made. I would have thought that it would be getting enough
disk space to keep more than the 7 made since the beginning of May - but
perhaps you have it set to very restricted space, either deliberately or
because the disk is full, or perhaps have been doing a lot of installs
that generate additional points

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)


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