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I’ve always mentioned it’s good to have frequent backup of your data. In case if your system gets corrupted, you can reinstall your Windows at any time and then restore your data from backup. I personally NEVER use System Restore. I also turn off System Restore after installing Windows to get back my disk space. By default, Windows XP takes up 12% of my disk space which is a waste if I do not use System Restore at all. System Restore works “sometimes” but when it doesn’t work, everything gets messed up.

To turn off System Restore in Windows XP is easy. Just right click on My Computer, select Properties. System Properties will appear. Go to System Restore tab and check “Turn off System Restore“. You can also change the percent of disk space usage by sliding the slider if you still want to use System Restore but do not want it to take up so much space.

Problem with Windows Vista is, there’s is no easy way to change the disk space usage for it’s System Restore. Here’s how you can easily change Windows Vista system restore disk space usage by a small batch file.


Reliance PC provided a very good tutorial on how to change Windows Vista system restore disk space usage with their batch file.

I’ve also found another batch file written by “ryryryry” on a forum.

The batch file written by ryryryry is a little simpler compared to the batch file from Reliance PC. Both batch files works fine. Give it a little time and someone will surely come up with a nice GUI version of Vista System Restore disk space usage modifier.