Restore points – never enough?

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The default restore point space allotment in Windows 7 is 1 to 3% of drive capacity. In almost all cases, the computer is using a very small proportion of the space available. That makes it very practical to raise that 3% to say 8 to 10%. This strategy will yield far more restore points that will give you much more flexibility in recovering a bad situation.

To change the allotment, type create in the text box above the start globe. Choose Create a restore point. Click configure. Move the slide to the right as much as you see fit. Setting it at 50 Gigabytes will have no affect if you have a 500 Gigabyte drive and are only using about 100 or so, which is highly typical.

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People never install enough or any at all ‘Restore Points’ Most of the time it’s by accident or when they first get the computer and that is the end. I LEARNED!!

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I try to do a complete backup once or twice a week, onto a Seagate 1T of mini HD.

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From my experience, doing a system recovery from restore points is not very reliable, compared to a system image n install media. Maybe that is why CT likes to hv many many restore points.

Personally, I keep only the latest 2 restore points in my Win 7 cptr by using CCleaner, in order to not waste disk space. If the 2 restore points won’t work, I would fall-back on my system image or install DVD.
I think it is foolish to keep a restore point that is more than 3 months ago.

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For the last few years, I have had my restore point storage massively increased over the default levels, and there have been times I have really been glad that I did so.

I also set it up to make restore points more often than the default frequency.

Only having a couple of restore points from the prior couple of weeks or prior couple of changes made on the computer (which might have been in the same day) is not enough, in my opinion.

Of course, there are some people who do a system image and total backup every day or every week, and archive reserve copies of this over time which they don’t write over, and for them, restore points probably don’t matter. But I’m just an ordinary computer owner.

Even though I’ve had one or two experiences of restore points not entirely restoring the computer (which happened, by the way, after innocently installing some Windows Updates that were served to my computer which turned out to be BAD and resulted in BSODs or endless loops), I have been happy with Win 7’s restore point facility – finding it much better than Vista’s was, at least!

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P.T.

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