Disable System Restore in Windows Vista
The Windows Vista System Restore feature will make sure that software installations, drivers, and other updates can be rolled back. The only price to this feature is some disk usage. If you want to disable System restore, which is a bad idea, it's really pretty simple.
Just to make sure you understand… Windows Vista has just been released. There are bugs. Things will crash. Disabling System Restore will keep you from rolling back changes.
So, you've read this far. Now let's disable it. Type system into the start menu search box, and pick the 4th item down, just labeled "System". (You could also right-click the computer icon and choose properties)
Now click the System protection link:
You'll see the checkboxes next to your different disks:
Once you uncheck the drive, click the "Turn System Restore Off" button.
Now you've got system restore disabled. Living on the edge, eh?
"D" Drive is full.
How can I stop pop-up saying "free up disk space?
If I have to turn off sys. restore for "D" drive, how can I do that.
I am a senior citizen, and have just recently purchased a new Compaq PC. VISTA PREMIUM.
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Thank You
Two simple queries -
1. After replacing my Vista hard drive under warranty, it now requires me to "press F2 to continue" during startup. Annoying.
2. Suddenly, after every session, I'm faced with every webpage and window viewed sitting right on my desktop. To see the desktop I have to use F4 to clear all. What am I doing wrong?
Any solution? Thanks, Wayne
HP told me to do this to free up my overfilled D drive:
1. Click Windows Start button and in Search type "Recovery Manager"
2. Click on Recovery Manager Program listed
3. Now the Recovery Manager Program will be opened
4. Click on Advaced Options button
5. Select "Remover Recovery Partition" and click Next
6. Now Select "Yes"and click Next
7. Select "Recovery discs already Created"
8. Click Finish.
Now the Recovery Partition will be removed and added to the C:
partition.
Now I dont have a D partition. only C. Im staggered… all I wanted it for the low memory on a brand new machine to stop!…lol..
oh one more thing to add is that I do have the recovery discs so its not like Ive deleted and lost the recovery information.
Make sure that if you disable S.R. you have an excellent anti-virus. One in particular - Avast- has a type of restore feature called VRDB. My previous anti-virus - AVG - let a virus through twice and I successfully used System Restore.
But S.R. was gobbling up 1 GB every few days to its max of 35 GB. I couldn't spare 35 GB so I did the research and found Avast, which is free online. I then disabled S.R. and saw my C drive instantly regain 35 GB.
Avast has stopped a virus a number of times and you can view its progress as it happens.
My computer runs quieter now also. AVG appeared to strain its resources.
My suggestion - don't just disable SR. Find a good anti-virus and have only one per all the advice.
Good luck, Wayne
An update to my previous notes - After failing to succeed in reducing System Restore disc usage, I disabled it. On another attempt just on a hunch, I had success in reducing to 10GB. The previous failure was due to my not entering the command exactly as the renowned Geek prescribed. Now I have System Restore at an acceptable limit plus a good anti- virus. Disabling SR leaves one with no recourse if the worse happens and anti-virus isn't enough. Thanks, Wayne.
This is an old thread I know, but if anyone is still following, you may be interested. Having resisted the advice to totally disable System Restore, I did follow the Geek's tip on reducing it ( in my case from 35GB to 10GB). My comp runs perfectly, and I know I have backup. I have had a need for it twice since, so my advice - reduce, but don't disable. As the old saying goes - "better to have and not need than to need and not have" Wayne
Glad to hear you got it working…. There's such a crazy volume of comments on this site that I can't keep up with them all =(
This article gets a ton of daily pageviews, though, so your comments will definitely help somebody else.
I have 160GB HDD, 3 partitions, c-97.6GB, D-29.2GB and E- 22GB. I have Vista ultimate installed in 'C' drive and XP pro in D' drive. My issue is I want to install server 2003 in D drive by removing XP existing. I want server 2003 OS to install SAP R/3 4.7 IDES that needs approx 100GB.
I know this shrink volume feature in Vista. I tried to see how much can I get out of this I got only 38GB out of 97GB (but free space is 77GB).
1) I want to make 3 partitions, C-30GB, D-100GB, E-20GB…
2) But the condition is I dont want to remove Vista and format HDD
3) Without harming Vista how can I do this…
I've got an interesting situation where the list of drives and check boxes doesnt come up when I click system protection. Instead I see the computer name screen. What other way is there to solve this same issue?
Tim,
The System Properties window contain several tabs,
You are on the Computer Name tab, but you need to go to the System Protection tab on the top of the window.
I'm researching on how to rid the Vundo Trojan off my computer. Symantec suggests disabling System Restore (which will delete my restore points T.T ) and scanning my computer over with an updated anti-virus (which I have.) in Safe Mode. I have Vista, and Symantec only has suggestions relating to the trojan on XP and Me OSes.
Would you guys think the process should operate the same on Vista?
Hi Proper,
No actually there wasnt. This is precisely why I put this message in here to begin with. There was only ONE tab…the tab with Computer Name. Besides which, when you click on System Protection, it should have gone directly to the appropriate tab if it were there anyhow. Bottom line was, the system ended up getting wiped out because as it turns out, the default load from the manufacturer prevented even Administrators from doing some basic stuff including entering the Device Manager.