Control System Restore Disk Usage

[photolarry]

There is a simple registry edit in order to control the percentage of disk space used by System Restore. Unlike XP, the default is not 10 but 15 percent. And since this might crowd up your disk, instead of turning off the feature to remove all previous restore points, you can change the value as follows:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg]

"DiskPercent"=dword:00000003

In this example, the disk percent is 3%. Note that it is a dword and you can enter a value in hex between 1 and 100

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg]

"DiskPercent"=dword:0000000F

Just another example, this is 15%.

Hope this helps someone. It sure helped me.

[HappyAndyK]

While on the topic, might as well mention : By default, in Vista, SystemRestore is set to delete restore points after roughly 4,294,967,295 seconds or 136 years, which was a mere 90 days in XP ! More about its Customizing here too ! :D