How to delete old restore points to save disk space?

Question

Original Title: restore points

How do you delete all but your most recent restore points in windows 7 home P to save space

Answer 1

Make System Restore Use Less Drive Space in Windows 7

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5482/make-system-restore-use-less-space-in-windows-7/

**Remove all but the last System Restore point.**Click 'Start' / All Programs /Accessories / System Tools / Disk Cleanup / Click the 'OK' button.

After cleanup finishes its calculations, down in the lower left click on 'Clean up system files' vand click 'OK'.

Now click on the 'More Options' tab and in the box named 'System Restore and Shadow Copies' click 'Clean Up'.

This will remove all but the last 'Restore Point'.

J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

Answer 2

How do you delete all but your most recent restore points in windows 7 home P to save space

See J W Stuart's reply, but let me add the following:

You are trading a valuable feature to save only a little space, and I don't recommend doing that. There are also various other things you can do to save a little space, but they are all stopgap measures, and you will undoubtedly soon find yourself back in the same situation.

The only real solution to a shortness of space problem is getting a larger hard drive. Fortunately they are very inexpensive  these days. At a web site like amazon.com, you can find a 500GB drive for $50 US, or even less.

Answer 3

Or just type"cleanmgr",in the box under all prog's.

then"more options"clk

restore points,clk

ok

Answer 4

I don't want to buy another hard drive. I want to take a snapshot of my drive on a nightly basis and only hold the data for 2 days in the event of a primary hard drive failure! I want to be able to recover my files and I don't care about needing to re-install the operating system. This is a fundamental problem with Microsoft's theory of backing up. Sure it satisfies 90% of the normal IT infrastructures, but I am not the 90%!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

Thank you. I hate long winded explanations of "Don't Do That" without answering the initial damned question.