Finally made the move to Vista x64... but did not expect this

[Mem]

Originally posted by: Griswold

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: VinDSL

Heh! My W2K Pro install is 9 years old and takes up 2.51gb... 😀

Bah thats nothing try DOS 6.22 😉 can your 2K fit on 3 floppies 😉.

Pah 3 floppies! You dont need 3 floppies to boot DOS 6.x ! 😛

I did not say boot ,I meant it comes on 3 floppies 😉 ,but I get your point 🙂.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: sourceninja

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Spicedaddy
System Restore eats up a lot of space in Vista.

15% of hard drive capacity, max.

It also has never worked in a situation where I thought it might be useful. Which is why I keep a real backup of my system (thanks clonezilla) for recovery purposes.

I've never had a case where my computer was having problems and system restore has fixed it. I've very case I've tried system restore it has made even more problems.

Sorry for harping on W2K Pro - I happily run Vista HP on my lappy, so I'm not a hater - but for comparison...

I'm surprised more ppl don't use the EBD method (when available, depending on your setup)!

One of my W2K Pro LAN machines puked C-drive earlier this week. Bad news! Booted off the CD and looked at the drive - zero/zilch. 'Dir' reported a blank drive!

I booted from the CD a second time and used the 'Recovery Console / EBD disk' (yes, on a 3.5" micro floppy) and it was back up and running in less than 5 minutes. Amazing! This has saved by bacon many times over the years...

Thank God nothing was lost. That machine would have taken me 2 weeks to restore from scratch! :Q

 

[Anubis]

i just did a fresh install. literally like 4 hours ago, my win folder is right at 20 gigs now lol

 

[rgallant]

Originally posted by: Anubis
i just did a fresh install. literally like 4 hours ago, my win folder is right at 20 gigs now lol

http://www.vistax64.com/tutori...ion-install.html?ltr=S

http://www.vistax64.com/tutori...re-point-schedule.html

-I went from 60 to 34 gigs after I set the system restore to once a week from every startup , reboot , every driver load (new install +) and every day @12:00
-I do a restore point before any big changes
-and I clean up the old ones with either McAfee or right clicking on drive-properties-tools-disk clean up-more options -delete restore points.(leaves the last one)
-also by default vista will use 15%- 500gig = 75 gigs of restore points
-thats what I do -did to cut down the hard drive volume. it works.
-I also short stroked my new drives to 120 gigs

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: rgallant

Originally posted by: Anubis
i just did a fresh install. literally like 4 hours ago, my win folder is right at 20 gigs now lol

http://www.vistax64.com/tutori...ion-install.html?ltr=S

http://www.vistax64.com/tutori...re-point-schedule.html

-I went from 60 to 34 gigs after I set the system restore to once a week from every startup , reboot , every driver load (new install +) and every day @12:00
-I do a restore point before any big changes
-and I clean up the old ones with either McAfee or right clicking on drive-properties-tools-disk clean up-more options -delete restore points.(leaves the last one)
-also by default vista will use 15%- 500gig = 75 gigs of restore points
-thats what I do -did to cut down the hard drive volume. it works.
-I also short stroked my new drives to 120 gigs

i really dontg care about the space but thanks for the links

 

[derdrache]

SOURCE:http://www.winvistaclub.com/t2.html

Guide : Customize Windows Vista System Restore Options.

In Vista, SystemRestore is set to delete restore points after roughly 136 years ... yeah, let that sink...
Normally Windows uses up to 15 percent of a drive?s available space to save restore points. In XP, the option to change this figure was configurable from the System Restore tab of the System Properties dialog box. But sadly this option is no longer offered in Vista.

But you can do so as follows :
Open regedit and go to
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion
SystemRestore\Cfg Double-click the DiskPercent.
The default is f (in hexadecimal) which is 15 in decimal. For making it say 10% type 'a'
Now again, how frequently you'd like to have your SystemRestore points auto-created can also be configured as follows :
Open regedit and go to
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore
You can change the value RPGlobalInterval from its default setting of 86,400 seconds (24 hours) to, say, 43200 (a8c0) if u want it created every 12 hrs.
As and how your new restore points get created, the older ones get deleted due to the available space constraint, on a FIFO or "First In First Out" basis.
By default, in Vista, SystemRestore is set to delete restore points after roughly 4,294,967,295 seconds or 136 years, which was a mere 90 days in XP ! The idea apparently, is to delete them only when absolutely necessary due to space constraint!!! But err...136 years !!!
But if you'd like to, you can also change this interval too. Change the value of RPLifeInterval in the same key; a setting of 7,776,000 seconds (or 76a700 in hexadecimal) is equivalent to 90 days.

To find out how much disk space is being used for restore points in your Windows Vista, from an elevated cmd, simply run
vssadmin list shadowstorage

And should you wish to change the amount of disk space to be allocated to System Restore, you can use the vssadmin command-line tool from the command prompt.

Lets say you want to resize the shadow storage area on C Drive to, say, 5 GB. Then type the following command in the cmd and hit Ctrl+Shift+Enter together. This will make it Run As Administrator.:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=5GB
On completion of the job, you will see a message : Successfully re-sized the shadow copy storage association

To restore original values, simply disable and the re-enable System Restore !

To bring up System Restore, type rstrui in Vista's search bar and hit Enter !
To bring up the System Properties dialogue box, which has the SystemRestore Options, you can press 'Windows logo key + BREAK'.

To create System Restore Points on the fly, try System Restore Point Creator. Using this utility, you can create System Restore Points in One click. Works on Vista ! To change the frequency of the System Restore Points formation, without using the Registry Editor, you can download CSRF Utility.
Incidentally, if you find that the System restore points and shadow copies of files are missing, after you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1, click Here.
These Links may Interest You:
How To Make Vista Start, Run and Shutdown Faster.
Avoid Tweaks of Doubtful Value.
Troubleshooting Windows Vista System Restore.