- Dec 30, 2012
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I have Win 7 Ultimate 64bit installed on a 120Gb Kingston Hyper X SSD. With the OS and programs installed on the SSD I'm usually around 60 to 70 Gb used of the available 111 Gb on the SSD.
Last week I noticed that this drive was in the red on My Computer and had crept up to less than 10Gb free. I went through the usual culprits and found that System Restore was set to use a max 50% of disk space. I like ot have at least some restore points as it's saved me a couple times in the past. So I set the slider to 15% max usage, clicked Apply and OK, and regained back nearly 50Gb of space on the drive. I checked it a couple days later and it had reset itself back to using a max potential 50% of the drive space. I reset it to 15%, it deleted the necessary Restore Points and I again reclaimed the space. Now again, a few days later it has reset itself back to using 50%.
btw, I have it set to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files"
Under System Properties > System Protection> Local Disk C > Configure, where the slider is and the settings are, it says:
"You can adjust the maximum disk space used for system protection. As space fills up, older restore points will be deleted to make room for new ones."
But ti looks like what is actually happening is that as space fills up, rather than deleting old restore points it is resetting the slider to 50% to accommodate new restore points that it's creating.
Is there another setting somewhere that I'm missing, or is it just not accepting the values I set for some reason? What would cause this?
Thanks
Last week I noticed that this drive was in the red on My Computer and had crept up to less than 10Gb free. I went through the usual culprits and found that System Restore was set to use a max 50% of disk space. I like ot have at least some restore points as it's saved me a couple times in the past. So I set the slider to 15% max usage, clicked Apply and OK, and regained back nearly 50Gb of space on the drive. I checked it a couple days later and it had reset itself back to using a max potential 50% of the drive space. I reset it to 15%, it deleted the necessary Restore Points and I again reclaimed the space. Now again, a few days later it has reset itself back to using 50%.
btw, I have it set to "Restore system settings and previous versions of files"
Under System Properties > System Protection> Local Disk C > Configure, where the slider is and the settings are, it says:
"You can adjust the maximum disk space used for system protection. As space fills up, older restore points will be deleted to make room for new ones."
But ti looks like what is actually happening is that as space fills up, rather than deleting old restore points it is resetting the slider to 50% to accommodate new restore points that it's creating.
Is there another setting somewhere that I'm missing, or is it just not accepting the values I set for some reason? What would cause this?
Thanks
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