Where does Vista store these "Shadow Copies" on your system?

[hooterville]

Where are these shadow copies stored and is there a way to prevent them without turning off system restore in Vista?

 

[zig3695]

whats the point? vista defrags them so they shouldnt slow anything down....

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: zig3695
whats the point? vista defrags them so they shouldnt slow anything down....

maybe because they take up space?

It doesn't actually take extra time writing to the harddrive though, if that is what the OP is thinking.

 

[hooterville]

I'm just wondering where they are stored as I do not need extra copies of everything on my hard drive.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: hooterville
I'm just wondering where they are stored as I do not need extra copies of everything on my hard drive.

No offense, but your exactly the type of person who shouldn't be touching this. You seem to think Windows is storing extra copies of 'everything' on your system, it's not. It's keeping changes (deltas) based on your base configuration. The space taken is actually very small vs result.

Additionally, system restore REQUIRES these snapshot, it's how it works. So no, you can't turn them off without turning off SR.

To the Zig poster and 'vista defrags them', I have no idea what point your trying to make.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: bsobel

To the Zig poster and 'vista defrags them', I have no idea what point your trying to make.

Ya know, I was thinking the same thing.

I have to disagree with your comments towards the OP though. I say, play all you want, just be sure to keep your restore disks handy

 

[bsobel]

I have to disagree with your comments towards the OP though.

I'm of the school that if you can't even understand how it works you have no business changing it, as invarably I'll be in another thread with him trying to fix something and when I suggest system restore he'll say 'but I have that turned off'.

That almost exact exchange just happened about a week ago, the user would up having to do a overinstall. Of course THEN he turned on SR...

 

[zig3695]

i thought i read that one of the new features of vista defragmenter was the optimization of the shadow copies. am i confused?

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: bsobel

I have to disagree with your comments towards the OP though.

I'm of the school that if you can't even understand how it works you have no business changing it, as invarably I'll be in another thread with him trying to fix something and when I suggest system restore he'll say 'but I have that turned off'.

That almost exact exchange just happened about a week ago, the user would up having to do a overinstall. Of course THEN he turned on SR...

As long as it's your own computer, then that is how you learn.

But I know where you are coming from.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: zig3695
whats the point? vista defrags them so they shouldnt slow anything down....

maybe because they take up space?

It doesn't actually take extra time writing to the harddrive though, if that is what the OP is thinking.

They do not take up any space that you will use. If the hard drive begins to fill up with *your* data then windows will dynamically shrink the space used by system restore & shadow copies.


To the op: Don't fvck with it. It is not causing you any problems and some day you may need it. Just relax