Re: System Restore Keeping Only One Restore Point

Danno

What version of Zone Alarm do you have? There were problems with version
6.5.

What drives do you have System Restore set to monitor? Do you have an
external or removable drive?

You cannot cCleaner to remove unwanted restore points. In other ways
cCleaner does a more thorough job than Disk CleanUp.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Danno wrote:
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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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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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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