I am at maximum space allowed for restore (12%). "To allocate more disk space for archiving restore points Open System Properties. Select a drive from the Available drives box by clicking it, and then click Settings. If you have only one drive or partition, it is selected for you. In the Drive <drive:>settings box, move the Disk space to use slider to change the disk space allocation for System Restore. Note that you cannot exceed 12 percent of the available disk space. Notes
To open System Properties, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance and then click System. In the System Properties dialog box, click the System Restore tab. System Restore requires at least 200 MB of available space on the hard disk (or the partition that contains your operating system folder). For best performance and protection, you should allocate more space. By default, when the operating system installs System Restore on your computer, it allocates approximately 12 percent of the available disk space to System Restore ...." See your help file for more information and links. Turning off restore will clear all restore points and should release the file space. Then turn it back on and it should set in a new restore point. Check to be certain. You can manually create a restore point if it did not. You can then change the restore allocation to less than 12% if you so desire. I don't tamper with and don't recommend that anyone else tamper with the page/swap files. Elaine Everything has got a moral if you can only find it. --Lewis Carroll Hello Michael On Saturday, September 27, 2003, you wrote > Whoa! I have been following this thread which got into XP searches, and did as > was suggested and downloaded X1. And what did I find on my hard drive? > Hundreds of restore files. Starting back when I got the machine in July, the > files were several megabytes in size. Now they are up in the twenty megabyte > size, sometimes several a day. No wonder my 40 gigibyte hard drive is showing > some serious use. Anyone have any comments about this? And to think, there > have been questions about how many restore points we XP users have access to. > The other two big files are a hibernate file that is in the five hundred meg > size (apparently the product of how large my RAM is) which is absurd since I > do not willingly use hibernate, and can think of no reason the file should > remain when the computer reloads. The other large file, over 800 megs is some > sort of pagefile. I have no idea what that is, and am not happy about > something of that magnitude just plunking itself down on my hard drive without > my knowledge. > Hey, many years ago, I was ordering a 386 machine at 25 mhz. I wanted a 190 > megabyte hard drive. The only faster processor > available at the time was a 33 > mhz, and the price stopped me. So I had to hunt around all over the place to > get such a machine, as several vendors actually refused to sell me a computer > with so large a hard drive. "You don't need a drive that big." the order desk > person would say. > Now look at what is on my hard drive. I NEED ROOM for my multigigibyte video > files for editing. > Mike ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
