This tip is for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (32 and 64bit).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here’s how to remove old system restore \t\tpoints using Windows XP Disk Cleanup:<\/p>\n – Click Start then Run and type Cleanmgr then press enter Here’s how to remove old system restore \t\tpoints in Windows Vista and Windows 7:<\/p>\n – Click Start <\/span>– Click on Delete \t\tbutton when Windows asks whether are you sure you want to delete all but \t\tthe most recent restore point. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Disk Cleanup can be used to remove all but the most recent Restore Point.\u00a0 Do this only if your computer is running normally and you’re having no problems. If you are having problems you shouldn’t clear old restore points because you may have to go back to an earlier restore point. Restore points take up a lot of\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[762,763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Select the drive where Windows is installed (normally C:\\ )and press \t\tOK
\n– Click on the More Options tab (see image under Vista instructions \t\t(below). Windows XP’s dialog is very similar.
\n– Click on Cleanup under System Restore<\/p>\n
\n– Type clean in the Start Search box.
\n– Click Disk Cleanup from the search results list.
\n– Select Files from All Users on this computer option.
\n– Click OK on Disk Space Cleanup Manager for Windows User Access Control \t\tpermission request dialog.
\n– Choose a drive letter from the drop down list, and press OK.
\n– Disk Cleanup will perform calculation to determine how much space it \t\tcan free. Once done, click on More Options tab.
\n– Under the section of System Restore and Shadow Copies, click on Clean \t\tup\u2026 button.<\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2009\/clean1.png\")
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\n– Disk Cleanup will erase all old restore points or files -except for \t\tthe most recent restore point.<\/span><\/p>\n