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[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

I'm going to strangle the creator of System Restore.

It's currently disabled. And it's bad enough that I just finished wrestling with an overzealous firewall, _AND_ i'm sick, but For a program that's currently disabled, it's taking up a HELL of a lot of space of my hard drive.

1.91 Gigs.

one point nine - freaking - one gigabytes.

C:\strangle /sysrestore -creator

Comments

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

re-enable it, manually turn off monitoring on drive c, wait a few minutes, and then disable it again. That should clear out the cache. Or you can give yourself permissions on the hidden "System Volume Information" folder and manually delete any _restore... folders in it.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

That first one's an idea, but the second one I have to do on a near-daily basis. No matter how many times i enable/disable system restore, then manually delete that friggin folder, windows ends up creating it again.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

It will create it but it should say next to empty if monitoring is off on both drives.

Go into services and disable the system restore service.

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

enable system restore and manually set its filesize back to 0 then reboot then disable and reboot again. it should relenquish the 2 gigs of space.

i had this happen when i was realiseing it was saving 9 GB of data and harboring 12 virii that my av would kill/quarantine but system restore was saving them. really sent me over when i realsised that was happeneing.

anyhoo. that should let you kill your used space form system restore.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

O_o

my GOD why didn't I think of that

I'm trying that as soon as I get home...

of course if my computer dies now, it's all YOUR fault(mocking end-users everywhere).

[oddball42.livejournal.com]

actually if your compuiter dies its all M$'s fault... i just made a suggestion...

i actually killed my system restore, because it was never a tool i needed, i either reinstalled because a system restore would not have fixed anything, or i was able to fix the problem some other way. so i finally removed it, especially after it started saving deleted viruses, that was real annoying.