Delete All But The Most Recent Restore Point In Vista
System Restore is a handy feature but it can take up several gigabytes of hard drive space. You can reclaim the space but disabling System Restore, however, by doing so, you will not be able to restore your computer to a given point in time.
An alternative, or happy medium, is to delete all the restore points, except the most recent one. To accomplish this in Vista:
- Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and click Disk Cleanup.
- Click Files from all users on this computer.
- If prompted, click OK.
- From the dialog box that appears, click the More Options tab.
- From the System Restore and Shadow Copies section, click Clean up.
- When prompted, click Delete.
- Click OK.
One Comment
Tom Farley
June 26th, 2008
at 8:22am
Thanks for the tip. I never even considered that restore point files could be large enough to cause issues. I usually clean up my computer manually, so I haven’t visited the disk cleanup utility in awhile.
I’m sure you know, but there is a clean up for restore points in XP too.