Looking to free up some hard drive space? If you’re a Windows user, you might care to know that System Restore could be using up to 15% of your drive. That may not seem like a lot, but it can be, especially on large drives. If your computer sports a 160 gigabyte drive, 15% of that would be 24 gigs. On a 500 gb drive, 15% adds up to 75 gigs.
For instructions on reducing the disk usage of Windows System Restore, and reclaiming some of that lost space, check out “Decrease Storage Space Allocated to System Restore” by Josh Barnett, Computer Journalist.
“While system restore is a God send it can have a tendency to consume large amounts of disk space. By default System restore is allocated a minimum of 15% of disk volume for restore points.
“Decreasing system restore space is somewhat a trade off - reduce the allocated space and, although you gain extra free space, you also loose the earlier system restore points. If you are happy having a reduced number of system restore points available, then by all means reduce the allocated space.
“However, before you can make an informed decision as to how much to reduce the space allocated to system restore, it is wise to find out just how much space system restore is actually consuming.”
Source: Lifehacker, via Download Squad.
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