System Restore

[Jahee]

I'm using Vista on my laptop, and i would find it useful to have 1 restore point i can manually create incase anything goes wrong. Thats where my problem is..

Using the System restore feature it seems i can only turn the thing on, or not have it at all... When its on it seems to create multiple restore points once or even twice a day, this would be ok if it went back and deleted the old points, but it doesnt, filling my hard disk with about 15GB of crap that is unecessary...

I can't seem to configure it to only make 1, and no more.. It there such a feature on the tool or am i not going to find a compromise?

 

[EULA]

You could decrease the amount of space vista uses for system restore:

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=2GB

That command would set your C: drive to use a max of 2GB.


Additionally, I think you can just disable system restore, but you can still create restore points manually.



I also found these steps for changing the schedule (instead of once each day) and these instructions for disabling system restore from running each time an application is installed.

 

[Jahee]

Thats exactly what i needed! Thanks alot..

I'm assuming you just enter that command into the 'run' box right?

Thanks again.