{"id":3074,"date":"2011-10-28T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2011-10-28T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:32:22","slug":"how-to-clean-up-old-system-restore-points-on-windows-xp-vista-and-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-clean-up-old-system-restore-points-on-windows-xp-vista-and-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to clean up old System Restore points on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lee asks how to clean up old system restore \t\tpoints
\n<\/strong>Thank you again, for all your help over the years, you both are great! \t\ttell me please, how to clean up system restore to gain some hard drive space. Thanks, Lee<\/p>\n

Our Answer
\n<\/strong>Hi Lee. We noticed you’re using Windows XP so here’s how you clean up \t\tall those old restore points in XP. Vista and Windows 7 Users, hang in there, we’ll get \t\tto you after we help Lee.<\/p>\n

Disk Cleanup can be used to remove all but \t\tthe most recent Restore Point.\u00a0 Do this only if your computer is running \t\tnormally and you’re having no problems. If you are having problems you shouldn’t \t\tclear old restore points because you may have to go back to an earlier restore \t\tpoint.<\/p>\n

Here’s how to remove old system restore points \t\tusing Windows XP Disk Cleanup<\/p>\n

– Click Start then Run and type Cleanmgr then press enter
\n– Select the drive where Windows is installed (normally C:\\ )and press OK
\n– Click on the More Options tab (see image under Vista instructions (below). \t\tWindows XP’s dialog is very similar.
\n– Click on Cleanup under System Restore<\/p>\n

Here’s how to remove old system restore points \t\tin Windows Vista and Windows 7.<\/p>\n

– Click Start
\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 can \t\tfree. 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<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>– Click on Delete button when Windows asks \t\twhether are you sure you want to delete all but the most recent restore \t\tpoint.
\n– Disk Cleanup will erase all old restore points or files -except for the \t\tmost recent restore point.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lee asks how to clean up old system restore points Thank you again, for all your help over the years, you both are great! tell me please, how to clean up system restore to gain some hard drive space. Thanks, Lee Our Answer Hi Lee. We noticed you’re using Windows XP so here’s how you clean up all\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":[1540,1188,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074"}],"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=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}