System Restore

[sethm1]

I needed to do a System Restore, but I only see the last 2 days - even if I select the "Show more restore results."

Any suggestions/thoughts?

 

[clifford_cooley]

How much space are you allowing for the restore points? You may need to allow more space.

Another possibility is that you may have done a system cleaning two days ago and deleted all your restore points.

 

[TrainableMan]

To increase the amount of space set aside for restore points...
Type Restore Point into the start search and select create a restore point. Click the Configure button and move the slider to something appropriate. I have mine set to 39GB which is 10% on my system drive; with that I get 16 or 17 restore points.

 

[Mychael]

I just had a look at my Restore points TM, I've set mine for 20% and yet only have 2 restore points.

 

[TrainableMan]

20% isn't much if your drive is only 60GB, the GBs are what matters. Also not all my restore points are visible unless I select the show more option.

 

[Mychael]

I'll check that as I'm 20% of 250gig.

Edit: clicked show more options, still only now see 3 points.

 

[sethm1]

Mine was set at 3% (HDD is 298 GB. Its actually 320GB but I have partioned drive os as to contain the Paging file - and yes Paging file is up front).
I now set the System Restore to 20%.
Will give it a few days to see if Restore Points shows more Points.

 

[Mychael]

Made a discovery by chance. I mentioned earlier that even though I had restore set for 20% of my 250gig drive it only had 3 points and was only using around 45gig of space.
I deleted all the restore points and re-enabled it. It would have wanted 170gig for that same 20% setting. Weird, so I've now dialed it back to 10%. I'll wait and see now if more the 3 points accumulate.

 

[TrainableMan]

You did recently install SP1. I also read that wipes out restore points so you simply may not have generated more than the 3 since then.

 

[Mychael]

Yes, perhaps that was the reason. Have to wait and see.