Comments on: Reduce System Restore’s Disk Usage in Vista

By: Mai

Mai — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:50:23 +0000

What are the implications of reducing my shadow storage from 4.4gb to 300mb?

By: ches

ches — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:53:49 +0000

Great Post.. I used winDir to show me the free space on my laptop hard drive and stumbled upon the unknown space taken up which was 10GB!!! It was the shadow storage all along
Thanx Again

By: shah

shah — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:32:13 +0000

Someone asked how you can do this in xp. Well as far as I know, you can’t. But what you can do, is go to disk clean up. Then go to the more options tab. There is an option to remove all but the most recent restore point. I had never done this before and I freed up 7GB of data. This can also be xp and vista. However, if you frequently make changes to your computer, or have lots of problems with it, i’d go against doing it.

By: John L

John L — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:14:15 +0000

I may have come to this rather late but an excellent piece of information. I’ve been trying to track down why I’ve been loosing about 2GB a day on my Vista system! Even WinDirStat wasn’t that helpful, But now I know. Thanks a lot

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:37:20 +0000

OMG you’re a life saver. I was going nuts trying to figure out why I was losing gbs of free space with no files to account for it. Thank you very much.

By: Dipak

Dipak — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:10:33 +0000

Nice tip..Worked like charm, I could recover 56GB on sony Vaoi……….Thanks a lot bro….

By: Javier Pino

Javier Pino — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:56:21 +0000

Answering Mike…

In my case, using the command deleted all my previous restore points.
Even though I created one last night. It got erased too.

By: Mike_in_Akron

Mike_in_Akron — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:28:41 +0000

Ok, I have one question: Right now I have like 20 GB full of restore points and I run the command to shrink it down to say 5GB… when I do this, does Vista remove the oldest restore points during the resize??.. just wondering before I do this.

thanks much

By: Sashidharan

Sashidharan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 05:27:02 +0000

That was an excellent write up which is very useful..

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:13:21 +0000

Ignore all that I printed above. The problem I had was related to another glich in my system with the only option left to rectify it was a complete reinstall of the operating system & now my computer is running like a well oiled machine (luckily I had it backed up on an external hard drive, strongly recomended). I also reduced the amount of space for system restore points from 22GB down to 3GB & everything is working great….