Peter,
Does System Restore restore the Programs Directory and associated
directories ?

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Peter Ekkerman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Diane,
>
> Are you by chance including (monitoring)  your factory restore- or backup
> partition?
> Go into System Restore settings and check what is being monitored.
> If this partition is being monitored (which it shouldn't be) you may
> experience these type of errors.
> Also check % settings. Max is 12% which can amount to a very large chunk on
> today's larger drives.
> No need to reserve or use that much space. Things should work fine at about
> 5 -6 %.
>
> So ,turn OFF System Restore monitoring on all drives/partitions- you will
> lose any Restore Points,
> but that's somewhat immaterial since you can't use it anyway.
> Then enable monitoring (enable protection) on C:\   only, unless you have
> other partitions you want to monitor,
> but then ,depending on the size and free space on these partitions, you may
> experience the warning again.
> System Restore is valuable for a system drive, to restore system related
> drivers ,data etc ,but is neither designed nor is it desirable to restore
> personal data. So it won't restore deleted media files,email or pictures
> etc
> All those should be properly backed up to an outside storage medium.
> Restoring personal data may look like a good thing ,but in reality would
> create havoc by restoring previously deleted files
> and deleting previously (recently) created files.
>
> Hope this puts some perspective on it.
>
> Peter E.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Katz"
> Sent: Monday, 16 May, 2011 11:37 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Can't Set System Restore Points
>
> *I have the same problem, only it says there isn't enough room.  I have 284
> GB of free space.  That sure sounds like enough.
>
> Diane
> *
>
>
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