Why does System Protection Disk Usage increase when no new Restore Points have been added?

Question

Hello

I'm running Windows 10 64 bit Version 10.0.17134.165

Starting with no Restore Points and 0 bytes used in System Protection I manually created one Restore Point (RP).

The one RP used 60.5MB. In three days no other RPs were created but the space used grew to 1.8GB.

I was under the impression (perhaps incorrectly) that the System Protection space was only used when new RPs were created.

I don't know if this is normal and have been unable to find any information on it.

Regards

ALG

Answer 1

Thank you. I'll follow up that way.

Regards

ALG

Answer 2

Sounds like a bug then.

I would recommend putting it into Microsoft's feedback.

See below on how to do this. Because this should not be happening.

And i don't see this happening on my machine but i am running an older version of Windows 10.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/27932/...

Answer 3

Thanks for the reply however it's not exactly what I'm asking. I understand what creates the restore points. What I'm saying is that no new ones have been created but  the space used (showing in System Protection; Configure) keeps increasing. I do not see any new restore points in System Protection; System Restore. I have observed many times before that when new "system" restore points are created they show in the System Protection; System Restore list.

That leaves only two possibilities:

1. something besides actual Restore Points  is using the System Protection disk space, or
2. Restore Points are being created but not showing in System Restore.

I would just like to know if this is a problem or what is taking the space.

Regards

ALG

Answer 4

Restore points will get created automatically when the system changes.

What qualifies as a system change is install of software including drivers, quality and feature updates and defender updates.

Because updates come out daily I am willing to bet that is what it is.

Answer 5

if you install or uninstall softwares  , then  system restore points  automatically  created  only if you enable  system protection on C drive