Adjust Disk Space Usage

Bert Kinney Windows XP Shell/User

Windows XPP
  • To adjust disk space usage, right click on My Computer and select Properties - System Restore tab
  • Select the monitored drive to be adjusted and click settings
  • Move the slider to the left to reduce the size of the Disk Space used to hold restore points.
  • Note: Reducing the Store size will purge the oldest restore points on a First In Firsts Out (FIFO) bases and leave as many recent restore points as the new size will allow.
  • Tips for adjusting disk space usage!

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By default System Restore will use 12% disk space for most size drives. With larger drives the data store can get quite large, which has been know to cause problems in System Restore. Setting the data store to approximately 1 GB should be adequate. Click HERE for more System Restore Health tips. Note: Reducing the data store size will purge the oldest restore points on a FIFO (first in first out) bases and leave as many recent restore points as the new size will allow.

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