Comments on: Tip of the day: Customize your System Restore settings http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=805 Helping PC users make sense of Microsoft software since 1991 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:54:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: peter byford http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=805&cpage=1#comment-145772 peter byford Mon, 18 Sep 2006 06:14:24 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/wordpress/?p=805#comment-145772 Hi, I am in Oz using my daughter's PC. She is having trouble with disk space. She has W-XP, and the Restore is set at 6%, however when I checked her 16gb hard disk, I found that 12gb was used by "system volume information", I cleared it down with disc clean up - it starting expanding again within days. I tried switching off System restore and switching it on again - in case some sort of corruption had occurred , then setting it at 6% again. The file is still getting bigger , i spoke to first line support at Microsoft (Oz) he suggested setting the file compress facility on System restore - that had no immediate effect = he said it should have compressed what had already been set- I believe he was wrong - either way it had no immediate effect. Any bright ideas how I can resolve this problem please? Cheers, Peter - PS returning to UK next Saturday(now Monday) Hi,
I am in Oz using my daughter’s PC. She is having trouble with disk space. She has W-XP, and the Restore is set at 6%, however when I checked her 16gb hard disk, I found that 12gb was used by “system volume information”, I cleared it down with disc clean up – it starting expanding again within days. I tried switching off System restore and switching it on again – in case some sort of corruption had occurred , then setting it at 6% again. The file is still getting bigger , i spoke to first line support at Microsoft (Oz) he suggested setting the file compress facility on System restore – that had no immediate effect = he said it should have compressed what had already been set- I believe he was wrong – either way it had no immediate effect.
Any bright ideas how I can resolve this problem please?
Cheers,
Peter – PS returning to UK next Saturday(now Monday)

]]> By: Ken http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=805&cpage=1#comment-1834 Ken Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/wordpress/?p=805#comment-1834 More great tips. Thanks. I'm going to have to endure serious withdrawal next week. :) But you'll like Sante Fe. More great tips. Thanks. I’m going to have to endure serious withdrawal next week. :) But you’ll like Sante Fe.

]]> By: Is there a PC Doctor in the house? http://www.edbott.com/weblog/?p=805&cpage=1#comment-1835 Is there a PC Doctor in the house? Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.edbott.com/wordpress/?p=805#comment-1835 <strong>Ed Bott - System Restore tip</strong> Excellent tip from Ed Bott today on tweaking the Windows System Restore  feature. System Restore is great but I feel that it needs reining in from defaults. Ed’s tweaked values are much better - mine are slightly different in that I only ... Ed Bott – System Restore tip

Excellent tip from Ed Bott today on tweaking the Windows System Restore  feature. System Restore is great but I feel that it needs reining in from defaults. Ed’s tweaked values are much better – mine are slightly different in that I only …

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