Re: Size of System Restore Points

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Sam said ...
> Sam said ...
> > Bert Kinney said ...
> > > Hi Sam,
> > >
> > > Go to Start - Run and type eventvwr.msc and press enter.
> > > Click on System in the left pane.
> > > Click the gray title "Source" at the top of the source name column in the right pane to
> > > sort by source name, look for "sr" and "srservice".
> > > Double click on each of these events, then click on the button below the two arrows in the
> > > upper right corner. This will copy the event information to the clipboard. Paste the
> > > information for each of the two event here.
> > >
> > > Run Disk Clean-up to get rid of any temp files.
> > >
> > > If you haven't reinstalled System Restore I would suggest doing so. This will reset all
> > > the registry settings for System Restore. Test System Restore by creating a new restore
> > > point. Create a new empty folder on the desktop. Try restoring to the new restore point.
> > >
> > > Set the amount of disk space used to hold restore points to 1GB.
> > >
> > > A few questions:
> > > Is SP-2 installed?
> > > How much used space and free space is there on the drive/partition Windows is installed
> > > on?
> > >
> > >
> > will give it a go, thanks.
> >
> ... forgot to say XP Home, SP2. c:\ has 25.4GB used, 44GB free. If I
> turn on system restore, that will be eaten into at arate of about 0.8GB
> per reboot!
>
I restored system restore and even took a manual restore point and
restored to it as suggested - all went well. However, I still add 0.8GB
or so to the disk space used on each boot, but there are no extra events
in the log each time.

No SR events were in the event log. There are srservice events, e.g.

Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 115
Date: 26/08/2005
Time: 17:42:14
User: N/A
Computer: CANDR
Description:
System Restore monitoring was enabled on all drives.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 110
Date: 26/08/2005
Time: 16:48:00
User: N/A
Computer: CANDR
Description:
A restoration to "Sam's test restore point" restore point occurred
successfully.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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