Is there a way to delete restore points in Windows XP?

Answer 1

BLAH to remove old restore points is easy, and using the registry wont remove the physical restore points of old...

Here is how you do it...

it should look something like this
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Go into MY COMPUTER, RIGHT click the C: drive, select PROPERTIES, click the DISK CLEANUP button...(which im sure you know of, but there is another feature in it most people dont know of) once the DISK CLEANUP window is finished scanning it will open up another WINDOW that says DISK CLEANUP FOR C:...

ON the tabs at the top of this window, click the tab that says MORE OPTIONS...

Then select the bottom button which says SYSTEM RESTORE, YOU CAN FREE UP MORE DISK SPACE etc... CLEANUP...

once you click it, wait a moment as your pc may freeze with the deletion of old restore points. This is COMPLETELY harmless and usually increases the speed of your computer a little, as well as the disk space...

AND OMFG Dick Turning off sys restore below, does not remove old restore points, holy cow, it simply turns it off, you could have 4 gigs of restore points from 6 months, the way to remove them is what I described above...

He didnt say anything about turning the darn thing off, he said delete lmao...

Answer 2

All restore points are stored in a folder that starts with _restore in the System Volume Information folder found in the root of your individual partitions. This folder is used to store copies of your registry, files, configs, etc. The system volume information folder is only accessible to the System account by default. You can access this folder, though, by adding yourself to the security permissions of this account. Though its advised that you do not do so, I am sure that some of you will poke around in there anyway. Remember, doing this is at your own risk.

Most of the configuration options for System Restore can be found at the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore

One interesting key you can change here is the interval Windows uses to make an automatic restore point. By changing the value, which is the total seconds between automatic restore point creation, you can make Windows create restore points more often or less frequent. The default value is 86400, which in seconds corresponds to 24 hours between each automatic restore point creation.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\RPGlobalInterval

For more information on the registry keys used by System Restore read this Microsoft Knowledgebase article:

The Registry Keys and Values for the System Restore Utility

You can also specify what registry keys should not be restored and what files should not be backed up by System Restore.

These registry keys are:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\BackupRestore\KeysNotToRestore

The values contained in the FilesNotToBackup key are files or directories, in which you can specify wildcards as well to exclude all files in a particular directory. Any files listed in this way will not be added to a restore point when one is created.

The values contained in the KeysNotToRestore key are registry keys that should not be restored if you ever restore your computer to a previous restore point.

Answer 3

Darn....misinformation is prevailing here!!

This is so simple.

Click on Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore

Once the restore window pops up, look for the box to turn it on and turn it off. Just click on the box to turn it off. When it turn off it will delete all prior restore points.

Then if you want to turn it on again, simply follow the path I've defined above and click on the box to turn it on again.

This is the simplest and easiest way to delete your old restore points.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

YES.

READ your user manual, that will tell you how to do it!!!