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| Thread ID: 51365 | 2004-11-19 03:53:00 | C drive problem | polo (6383) | Press F1 |
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| 293775 | 2004-11-19 03:53:00 | hi in my c drive i got a foldercalled _Restore it says it contains 1gb of files i dont nedd it how i delete it i am running win me | polo (6383) | ||
| 293776 | 2004-11-19 03:57:00 | The restore folder contains the files that would be used if you wanted to do a System Restore. If you want to purge them, simply disable System Restore (via Control Panel - System) and reboot the computer. If you re-eanable Restore, they will slowly build up again. You do not have to re-enable it if you think you will never need it - ME Restore was never that reliable anyway. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 293777 | 2004-11-19 04:01:00 | It was reliable. It reliably didn't work.:D (The MS free "security" CD loaded a version of it which is said to work). | Graham L (2) | ||
| 293778 | 2005-01-11 10:14:00 | I have a laptop running Windows ME and the _restore folder is taking up more than 2GB of a rather small disc! I have tried disabling system restore and re-enabling it, but this - or anything else I've tried - doesn't remove any of it. Any suggestions how i can reduce its size? | robinh (5526) | ||
| 293779 | 2005-01-11 20:09:00 | Hi Robin Welcome to Press F1. The only way to reduce the size of your restore file is to reduce the amount of data in it. That is not really practicable, so if you neeed more HDd space your choices are limited to disabling the restore facility or getting a bigger hard drive. The latter is probably the best course, and if you kept your old HDD as a D: drive, you would be able to store data there instead of the C: drive so that it would not be lost if a reformat was necessary. Either that or use it as backup storage. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 293780 | 2005-01-12 01:01:00 | I believe that the System Restore takes "up to" one eigth of the disk size. I belive there is a configuration option which lets you reduce the amount it uses. (I think I saw the option once, but I haven't got ME any more). However, unless you have installed the upgraded (working) version of System Restore, you might just as well disable it completely. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 293781 | 2005-01-12 21:39:00 | Thanks for the suggestions. I have managed to reduce the size by turning off system restore and the OS then lets you remove the files in _restore\temp (after I had backed them up!). There is an option to reduce the amount of disc space used, but it is "greyed out" and doesn't work! In my case the _restore folder was using half the disc space - which seems a bit excessive!! Thanks again, Robin h |
robinh (5526) | ||
| 293782 | 2005-01-12 22:06:00 | Here are a couple of mskb articles that may help. Free Hard Disk Space Decreases for No Apparent Reason support.microsoft.com How to Enable and Disable System Restore support.microsoft.com hth |
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