System restore

Is this right ?? Mine was set at max....should I lower it to 5 ?

http://www.mypcclinic.com/forums/showpost.php?p=232701&postcount=16

Depends on how many restore points you want to have available, Lynn.

I don't use System Restore but, I've always thought the default (12%) was a bit excessive. But, if you have plenty of hard disk space, it doesn't hurt to leave it at maximum so you have quite a few restore points available.

This would apply to both XP and Vista, of course.

OK....I've used 1/4 of the disk so far....I'll leave it at 12......
I knew Bill was full of it....

Thanks Carl

I set ours at 5%. I find that allows plenty of restore points.

Hi Bill...
Will it make your computer run faster set at 5% ?

Lynn wrote:Hi Bill...
Will it make your computer run faster set at 5% ?

Hi Lynn it will not make PC run faster all it does is gives more restore points,as Carl said if you have plenty of room on your hard drive if it is 12% just forget it.

Larry wrote:

Lynn wrote:Hi Bill...
Will it make your computer run faster set at 5% ?

Hi Lynn it will not make PC run faster all it does is gives more restore points,as Carl said if you have plenty of room on your hard drive if it is 12% just forget it.

Done ......Thanks Larry

Lynn wrote:Hi Bill...
Will it make your computer run faster set at 5% ?

Not faster, just give you more room on your HD.
Cleaning and defraging your HD should make it faster.

irishgodfather1 wrote:

Lynn wrote:Hi Bill...
Will it make your computer run faster set at 5% ?

Not faster, just give you more room on your HD.
Cleaning and defraging your HD should make it faster.

Can I move it 5% to clean and defrag....them move it back to 12% ?

Lynn wrote:

irishgodfather1 wrote:

Lynn wrote:Hi Bill...
Will it make your computer run faster set at 5% ?

Not faster, just give you more room on your HD.
Cleaning and defraging your HD should make it faster.

Can I move it 5% to clean and defrag....them move it back to 12% ?

I can't see why not.

Thanks Bill

Let us know how it works out Lynn.

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Thanks Sultan...

Lynn wrote:

sultan_emerr wrote:http://pcpitstop.com/betapit/

Thanks Sultan...

Also, don't forget about chkdsk.

Lynn, the level at which you set System Restore really depends on how big the hard drive or partition is that your OS is on. If you have a hard drive of 50 gigs then 12% for system restore uses about 6 gigs. If your hard drive is 150 gigs then the same setting will use about 18 gigs of space which is way too much. I have a 160 gig hard drive and I se the slider at 3% which uses about 3.7 gigs of space. That is more than enough.
If you want to clear out some space before a defrag set the slider to 1% which will leave a few restore points in case of emergency then carry out a chkdsk then a defrag. After that you can reset the slider to give you about 3 or 4 gigs of space for system restore and restore points will gradually be created to take up that space. Once your allotted space is full the earliest restore points drop off to allow new ones.