{"id":21783,"date":"2021-07-15T07:31:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T11:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=21783"},"modified":"2021-07-18T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T18:46:03","slug":"how-to-remove-old-system-restore-points-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-remove-old-system-restore-points-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove Old System Restore Points in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">How to Remove Old System Restore Points in Windows 10<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">System Restore points, Volume Shadow Copies, and other old Windows files can take up a lot of space on your hard drive.\u00a0 You can use Disk Cleanup to remove all but the most recent Restore Point, Volume Shadow Copies, and more. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However. should do this cleanup operation if your computer is running well and you\u2019re having no problems. If you are having problems, you may not want to clear all old restore points as you may have to go back to an earlier restore point. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Restore points take up a lot of disk space and for most users, it does not make sense to keep more than two or three restore points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here\u2019s how to remove old system restore points Windows 10:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Type CLEANMGR in Taskbar search and press Enter when you see Disk Cleanup appear in the search results.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When Disk Cleanup opens, choose a drive letter (normally this will be drive C:\\) from the drop-down list and press OK.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Disk Cleanup will determine how much space it can free up. Once that is done, click on the &#8220;Clean up system files&#8221; button.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/clean-up1.png\" alt=\"Disk Cleanup - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"377\" height=\"456\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Again, select the drive you want to clean up. Windows will again scan the drive you choose. This operation may take some time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Click on the &#8220;More Options&#8221; tab at the top of the dialog that opens.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under the section &#8220;System Restore and Shadow Copies&#8221; click on the &#8220;Clean up&#8230;&#8221; button.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/clean-up2.png\" alt=\"Disk Cleanup -Cloudeight InfoAve\" \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Click on the &#8220;Delete&#8221; button when Windows asks whether you are sure you want to delete all but the most recent restore point.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/clean-up3.png\" alt=\"Disk Cleanup - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"354\" height=\"187\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Disk Cleanup will erase all old restore points or files except for the most recent one.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/donation.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/donate2021-small.png\" alt=\"Please help us with a small donation if you can.\" width=\"446\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; How to Remove Old System Restore Points in Windows 10 System Restore points, Volume Shadow Copies, and other old Windows files can take up a lot of space on your hard drive.\u00a0 You can use Disk Cleanup to remove all but the most recent Restore Point, Volume Shadow Copies, and more. However. should do this cleanup\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-remove-old-system-restore-points-in-windows-10\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948],"tags":[4255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783"}],"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=21783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21785,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21783\/revisions\/21785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}