How much space does a restore point take up vista

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Venmo Gifts. Fortnite iPhone. Quest Headset SteamVR. M1 Mac Dropbox. Windows 11 Uninstall Clock. Teams Walkie-Talkie. PCI Express 6. There can be some variation here, though. More on that in a later post. The amount of change that occurs on the volume determines how large the shadow copies are and thus how many can fit in the shadow copy storage area. The ClientAccessibleWriters shadow copies with the client-accessible attribute are used for restore points created by File Backup, System Restore, and Complete PC Backup on the source volume and can be used to access previous versions of files.

The literal meaning of client-accessible is that the shadow copy is visible via shares on the volume. The DataVolumeRollback shadow copy with the No writers attribute means this shadow copy is created by Complete PC on the backup target volume.

It was only when I started to delete files in system restore that the penny dropped. I too, with your help, discovered that the max storage was set at 'unbounded'. Saved my life. Saved my marriage. Saved my sanity. This is a great post.

I've recovered over 50G of space. I have a problem however. See below:. Microsoft Windows [Version 6. All rights reserved. The system cannot find the file specified. The OS is associating exactly the same size and number of files to the "my documents" directory as to the "Documents" folder.

I have a similiar problem with a "local settings" directory that exists, has no files in it, cannot be deleted, but diruse returns it using 9GB.

Your observation about Vista associating "My Documents" folder to the "Documents" folder is correct and the reason why is because My Documents is a junction point. A Junction Point is a physical location on a local hard disk that points to another location on that disk think of it as a shortcut. When these pre-Vista apps reference the My Documents folder in Vista, it will be re-directed to the Documents folder. With out the junction points in place, the application will fail to run.

Why did Microsoft decide to get rid of the old folder names, such as My Documents and others? Who knows other than why did they do it in the first place and now decide it was a bad idea. Now that you know why, it would be a bad idea to delete a junction point AND the real folder it points to.

Instead, run the command, find the REAL folder location and clean out anything under it. What the? The analysis tools show folders RRbackups, Documents and Settings, and System Volume Information all without file sizes or space usage info.

How can I see how big these folders are or where else something may be gorging on 35GB's of my data…? Your fix worked perfectly. I've decrease the max size for the system restore and ran disk cleanup, yet I did not recover any additional space. Any recommendations on what I need to do next?

Hey, maybe anyone here can help me — I have this same problem as everyone, with missing disk space. Anyone has any other idea for where could the disk space hide? By the way, I have a lenovo thinkpad. Thought this might be related as thinkpad also has some sort of system restore. OK I have indeed found out that the tinkpads have a similar, additional feature that takes up much more space, and found that it takes up about 55GB of my disk space.

However, just like Vista's system restore, it is too not so easy to manipulate. I am not sure how to save space rather than just delete backups for which I might be sorry later… I know the backups are incremental so just deleting some of them even if I find a way to do so might make the later ones not work.

Anyone knows this problem and can help? I have a question. I'm a bit paranoid with things like this, so I was wondering if shrinking the disk space used would in any way shape or form affect the hidden recovery partition I have on my laptop?

Thanks in advance. Using the vssadmin command as shown in the article will not effect your hidden recovery partition. I've just released I only noticed recently, as I've installed and removed a couple of trial program suites. I can not thank you enough for this page. Recently a program I installed destroyed my music directory. The program was call Songbird and was supposed to be the Firefox of Media Players.

But after installing it completely destroyed my music. After deleted all my music though, I realized that about 50 gigs were completely uncounted for, and through this tutorial, was able to recover that space.

Thank you so much! The shadow copies on my mother's Vista laptop had claimed GB of space I'm not exaggerating and I was totally stumped as to where all the space was going. Your suggestions cleared it right up! I thought that was a bit much, so I changed it to 38 gigs. First time I've ever used the command prompt btw — I was always too scared to use it, even tho I've been using computers since — I was afraid I'd mess something up.

However it worked and everything went fine. Not sure why Microsoft didn't put a natural cap on it instead of how much system restore could grab. Many Thanks. I went from having 6GB of free space to 14GB.

Just have to wait and see…. Yep this worked perfectly for me, I figured I had just a lot more music than I had thought and it wasn't until I started moving files around that I noticed an issue.

It beat days of 'dell help and support' instantly. I have just reinstalled Vista. I had a GB hard drive.. I set it 20GB is it OK or did i make it too less.

I did a disc clean up last day in c and it also deleted my personal files in user's file and desktop. Size was showing as unbounded. Followed your instructions and resized the shadow copy to 20GB. Recovered all the free space… Thanks a bundled…. Out of I changed it from I have deleted all the temporary files, internet temp files, unnecessary hidden files.

I have even finished the disc clean up for the C drive. Dude, you're a life saver. I was in the red zone 3gb left and searched for an answer for 2 days. You freed up 24GB of free space on my 3 month old GB computer. I read the thing about vssadmin and tried the command but nothing was displayed not even shadow copy, I'm struggling with this since the last 3 months, my laptop is Acer Aspite please i need help, since 3 months my disk space has been by 23 GB! Hi, when ever i type the command "vssadmin list shadowstorage" and enter.

Kimboa, its been a while since I have used Vista, but you should be able to right click the icon and select "Run as Administrator". That should help you out. This is an awesome post, thanks for explaining it so well and helping us novices out. I freed up over 20GB in 5 minutes. I just ran compcln. It took a few seconds and released a life-saving 2GB, all "shadow storage". Thanks for this. My Acer was sold with a stupid 30GB c: drive partition.

I've been struggling to keep some spare c: drive space. So 2 billion thanks…. This post was extremely helpful. After reloading Vista I could not figure out where 35gb were at and this post solved the mystery.