System+Restore+in+Win+7

 System Restore in Win 7

One of the most useful attributes of XP was System Restore and I know that apart from myself it as saved the bacon of countless people.

Fortunately It is still present in Windows 7. Sadly by default it does have a large allocation area and you can end up with 10’s of Gigabytes taken up by Restore.

Here is how you can control it:-

Click Control panel and make the view small Icons and you look for System.

Select from the left-hand panel System Protection A window will appear Click Configure Here you have a slide which you can move to a much less percentage, similar to the facility in XP. ( I elected now to have only 8% space )

Now in the same window you can Delete all the previously saved ones in my case there was some 80 GBs Therefore ,I made a backup to a Flash drive and then deleted all on drive “D” in the computer.

Hard drive Space is at a premium whereas I accept that I would be lost without System Restore one does not need months of backups.    