Re: System Restore Keeping Only One Restore Point

Thanks Gerry,

When I use Disk CleanUp, (which is seldom because I use CCleaner instead), I
don't click the option to "remove all but the last restore point".

I have ZoneAlarm as the anti-spyware and anti-virus software, as well as
ZoneAlarm's firewall.

I also have AVG installed, but I don't let it run while ZoneAlarm is active.
I only fire up AVG once in a while but I disable ZoneAlarm before I do that.

I also have Spybot and AdAware, but they don't run in the background as far
as I can tell. I only start them up once in a while as well.

I also have jv16powertools, but I only use that on its safest mode to clean
the registry once in a while.

Danno


"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Danno

Your original disk space setting for System Restore was OK and unlikely to
be the cause of the problem. Turning off System Restore removes all
restore points. Using the System Restore option on the More Options tab of
Disk CleanUp removes all except the latest restore point.

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements? Also what firewall
are you using? These can interfere with System Restore.

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srauto.html

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/healthy.html


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Danno wrote:
Thanks for the input Dave. My hard drive has 25 gig available out of
40. I knew that turning off SR would delete all but the last restore
point, but since I only had one restore point.... nothing to lose. I'll
try it by increasing the amount of space available once more,
but I doubt that will work because even when I'd allocated 12% space
(default) rather than 3% (which should be plenty), the same thing was
happening.
Danno


"Daave" <dcwashNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Danno" <danreardon@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I have the system restore turned on. The space I've allowed for
storage is 3% or 1075 MB.

But System Restore is only keeping one restore point. When it
creates another automatically, it deletes the previous restore
point, so basically, it's of no value right now. If I create a
restore point manually, the previous restore point is kept.... at
least right now I have two restore points from today, because I
just created one. But when SR creates a new restore point
automatically, all previous SR points will be deleted.

I've turned off System Restore, re-booted... then turned on System
Restore and re-booted again. But it's still the same.

I'd sure appreciate any tips on this issue.

How much free space is on your drive? Assuming it's at least 30%, how
about increasing your SR storage size to 10% to see what happens?
BTW, turning off System Restore will delete restore points!




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