{"id":5441,"date":"2013-02-13T20:36:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T01:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2013-02-13T20:36:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T01:36:01","slug":"removing-system-restore-points-when-and-how-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/removing-system-restore-points-when-and-how-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing System Restore Points &#8212; When and how to do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;re having no problems. If you are having problems you shouldn&#8217;t clear old restore points because you may have to go back to an earlier restore point. Restore points take up a lot of disk space, so if your computer is running well, there&#8217;s not much sense in keeping a dozen restore points. One or two recent restore points should be plenty. \u00a0If your computer isn&#8217;t running well, and hasn&#8217;t been running well, don&#8217;t remove any old restore points.<\/p>\n<p>This tip is for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 (32 and 64bit).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to remove old system restore points using Windows XP Disk Cleanup:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Click Start then Run and type Cleanmgr then press enter<br \/>\n&#8211; Select the drive where Windows is installed (normally C:\\ )and press OK<br \/>\n&#8211; Click on the More Options tab (see image under Vista instructions (below). Windows XP&#8217;s dialog is very similar.<br \/>\n&#8211; Click on Cleanup under System Restore<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to remove old system restore points in Windows Vista and Windows 7:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Click Start<br \/>\n&#8211; Type clean in the Start Search box.<br \/>\n&#8211; Click Disk Cleanup from the search results list.<br \/>\n&#8211; Select Files from All Users on this computer option.<br \/>\n&#8211; Click OK on Disk Space Cleanup Manager for Windows User Access Control permission request dialog.<br \/>\n&#8211; Choose a drive letter from the drop down list, and press OK.<br \/>\n&#8211; Disk Cleanup will perform calculation to determine how much space it can free. Once done, click on More Options tab.<br \/>\n&#8211; Under the section of System Restore and Shadow Copies, click on Clean up\u2026 button.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2009\/clean1.png\" width=\"389\" height=\"467\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Click on Delete button when Windows asks whether are you sure you want to delete all but the most recent restore point.<br \/>\n&#8211; Disk Cleanup will erase all old restore points or files -except for the most recent restore point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;re having no problems. If you are having problems you shouldn&#8217;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 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/removing-system-restore-points-when-and-how-to-do-it\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441"}],"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=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5442,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}