bootPrep_BASE+CSWITCH_1_km_premerge.etl

[Udedenkz]

Location,

C:\Users\Udedenkz

*Profile Udedenkz has been deleted today.

Size,

0kb / 600MB / 20GB

When it expanded to 20GB, it left me without any drive space, so all my restore point are gone. Which also leads me an offtopic question, what bloody ****ing idiot at Microsoft made it so that System Restore points delete themselves when there is a lack of drive space?

File is persistent!

Sometimes deletable, sometimes fully locked.

Suspected to be a malfunctioning component of an uninstalled Windows utility / SDK.

Can anyone confirm?

Any suggestion on permanent removal?

[yxz]

http://www.bing.com/search?q=*premerge.etl

[kryten]

Automatic deletion of restore points with low disk space is by design in certain circumstances:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301224

Keep in mind that system restore doesn't touch user profiles, just system files such as the registry and others. If the profile is gone, someone deleted it either by mistake or on purpose.

[Udedenkz]

I deleted that profile - moved to a different one. That is kinda when I noticed it being there.

The file, it seems to be related to a trace function. The thing is I uninstalled that whole thing. ???

[kryten]

Maybe try a reinstall then an uninstall since there's more space on the drive now?

[Udedenkz]

I think I fixed it. Reinstalled it. Then via CMD, told it to remove itself (-remove switch). Odd, one would think that uninstalling something actually removed that which it is doing.

Now, is there any way to backup System Restore Points? So that if it deletes them, I could restore them?

I have about 1.2-1.3 GiB external storage space.

[kryten]

Run Backup and Restore in Control Panel. Set up the backup, choose your destination, then choose your source (the Let Me Choose option). Select the System Volume Information folder from the source. Those are your restore points. Keep in mind that just over 1 GB is not a lot of space to back up to. Also back up your system state if given the choice.