hi all, I deleted all my restore points (from a system drive of 500gb) that had started totaling some 150+ gb (even though I had this system for 3 months! -- not sure if this is typical !? ) -- so, wanting to start with a clean slate, I deleted all of my restore points (doing a full backup prior to deleting the restore points of course), manually created a restore point which was about 80mb at the time of creation. Then, as I started using the computer, I noticed that the space used for restore points (even though no additional restore points were created) jumped to 1.4 gb in a span of ONLY 2 days. What is going on? -- I was under the impression that once a restore point is created, it is a point in time, finite "backup", one that does not grow. Secondly, why does stuff increase so much, in such a short period of time and what can I do to prevent such a growth, besides limiting the space used to say 2% or so, of the disk size -- and more importantly, if I do limit the storage size, how can I ensure that multiple restore points can be created without adversely impacting the "restorability" of these historical points? -- ie, how can I make sure that only important stuff is having a "restore point" created for and not just a bunch of junk files... thx, Cos

Hi Cos Please see the following article that shows how to control the space used by System Restore. How to Change the Disk Space Allotted to System Restore in Windows 7 Hope this helps. Thank You for using Windows 7 Ronnie Vernon MVP

Also, you can run Disk CleanUp to release the hard disk space. For more information, refer to: Delete files using Disk Cleanup Schedule Disk Cleanup to run regularly