Last weekend
I was contemplating the purchase of a new hard drive to replace the nearly-full one in the home desktop. I defraggted etc. and no dice. Someone suggested i might turn off “system restore” and I thought, I don’t have it on. But Win did. I turned it off, and HALF OF THE FUCKING HARD DRIVE IS NOW FREE.
I hate computers, I sincerely do.
You can also tell it to use *less* space for restore points, while leaving it on.
System Restore (and Windows Backup to another drive) can be a lifesaver, and beats reinstalling.
Drives are cheap. Time spent reinstalling (not to mention lost data) isn’t free.
Windows on a daily basis will set a restore point on your hard drive, said restore point basically being a snapshot of your registry settings. It’s useful when you encounter a virus or get a bad patch to your antivirus, Windows Update, etc., just restore to a previous point. It does clutter up the hard drive, though, as you found out.
computers themselves at times, and DEFINTELY DESPISE the bastards who put all kinds of “See, you only have to do this” shit in their programs but NOWHERE do they tell you about it. So you do without until somebody who knows shows it to you.
Me too.
Alas, can’t live without’em now.