Thanks Ed, Peter and Peter.
I will have a look at article 290402.
I have now reduced the space available for restore to 1 GB. Normally I
would not use Restore because I ghost the whole of my "C" drive to a
drive in a mobile rack and can recover the system from that source.
Recently I did have trouble with ghost images because of the naming of
saved files. I have solved that problem by increasing the drive to 80GB
and dividing it into three logical drives - one for each image saved (I
rotate three image files to give me three go back options based on time).
The original reason for my question was to minimise unwanted data on the
"C" drive to reduce the time it takes to ghost that drive.
Orf
Ed Nottingham, PhD wrote:
>It is my understanding that these folders are associated with updates,
>service pack files, and hotfixes. What I do is delete them once they are
>3-6 months old, and I'm certain that I will not to use "Add/Remove Programs"
>to remove one of the fixes that was applied. The Microsoft Knowledge Base
>Article that I found that may be of interest is 290402 (just enter that in
>the Support, Knowledge Base, field near the bottom of the page.
>
>I prefer GoBack 3.0 to XP's System Restore, but to reduce the amount of hard
>drive space used, you can simply right click on "My Computer," click
>Properties, then select the System Restore tab. Then for those
>drives/partitions being monitored, move the slide to the left to reduce the
>percentage of hard drive space being used by system restore. I don't think
>the $NtUninstall folders are related to System Restore, but not sure on that
>one.
>
>Ed
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>>I am running Windows XP and in my C:/WINDOWS folder have accumulated
>>many sub folders with names similar to $NtUninstallQ282010$/. Are these
>>something to do with "Windows Restore" or some other program?
>>
>>More importantly, how can I stop these accumulating such large (in Mb
>>terms) files? If they are tied up with "Restore", how do I limit Restore
>>to a certain time frame - like delete accumulated data after 14 days?
>>
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