Why do restore points in Windows Vista use so much disk space?

VistaJuice — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:29:43 GMT

You may have noticed that Restore Points on Vista take a lot more than the usual 50 or so megs as they did on XP. They can take up as much as 3GB at times. If you ever wondered why,...

re: Why do restore points in Windows Vista use so much disk space?

theminhb — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:32:51 GMT

The System Restore would make sense to me if you can save a restore point.

We spend hours reformatting and doing a clean install then many more hours putting everything back. I want to be able to do a clean install, do all upgrades make a restore point, save that point and then 3-6 months down the road if need be, restore to the saved point. Only that makes sense to me. Im looking at my restore points on this new pc after doing all the upgrades and the first restore points are already long gone and those are the ones I need.

re: Why do restore points in Windows Vista use so much disk space?

cfsbloggers — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:15:46 GMT

theminhb, you can use Complete PC Backup (included in Ultimate/Business editions of Vista) to save an image of your computer to DVD. This gives you a permanent, point-in-time image of your operating system.