Windows 7 RC Disappearing Restore Points
Yesterday I had six or seven Restore Points and today I find (With Shadow Explorer) that I have none.I did not perform a system cleanup.What could cause my Restore Points to vanish?HunkyDork
May 25th, 2009 12:45am

Its possible you have insufficient space allocated to it, so the older points are removed. Have a look at Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > System > System Protection (in the left pane) > System Protection Tab > Configure and, if necessary, change the disk space allocation.
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May 25th, 2009 6:12pm

Yes!I went to the "System Protection for Windows(C:)" tab and the "Max Usage" was set at 0.I never set it at 0 myself and it was not at 0 over the last two week because I had many "Restore Points" and I did use it once and it worked fine.What could possibly have reset the "Max Usage" to 0 ?
May 25th, 2009 9:33pm

did this problem occur after you did a recent update? I am having the same problem and will have to check to see if updates are causing the restore points to disappear. I hope microsoft fix this soon, because this is a serious problem.
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May 26th, 2009 11:41pm

I have heard that if a person is dual booting with XP, windows xp can cause the Restore points to disappear to prevent curruption, since windows Vista and windows 7 use shadow restore and XP does not. You should only partition your drive using vista or windows 7 and not windows XP, also. I am currently not dual booting but using virtual PC to run windows XP, but my harddrive was partitioned using xp, so maybe the problem have something to do with how the Disks are partition.
May 27th, 2009 12:29am

Yes, Cedarhill,I should have remembered because I had to deal with this situation when I first installed XP in dual-boot with Vista.It is possible to have XP in dual-boot with W7.Thesolution,which involves creating a registry sub-key,is the same as with Vista and isexplained on this Microsoft support page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185That takes care of the "Mysteriously Disappering Restore Points" but I still don't know what restet to0the "Max Usage" for Restore Points in my "System Protection" tab.Not so important now that the main case is solved.
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May 27th, 2009 5:28pm

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