Can't delete the most recent restore point?

Yeah, I did a disk clean up and that cleaned up all restore point except the most recent. Then I uncheck my local drive, turned off the restore, restart, turn restore back on, still has the most recent restore point on the local drive. So how the heck do I completely delete ALL restore point?

 

You can use CCleaner to delete the most recent restore point. But why do you want it deleted? It might be a good idea to leave it, unless you want to disable system restore completely.

 

Looks like in order to have system restore function it needs at least one restore point and the last can't be completely deleted.

I just looked and the last cannot be deleted.

 

Huh, must be different under W7, because you could in XP.

 

Actually you can in Vista - possibly in Win7 too - and older version of CCleaner could do it - the newer ones can't.

So if you check which version of CCleaner first introduced system restore point deletion, that one would be your best bet.

Another way of removing it would be to disable system restore...

 

actually i got it deleted now. have to completely turn off the system restore....I thought I turned it off before but I tried again, and now I no longer have any restore point on my local drive.

 

and you think this is a good thing why?

 

I have XP and in CCleaner the last restore point is grayed out.

That's what I'm thinking. I've used system restore many times to correct problems.

 

The very first version of CCleaner that has restore point deletion could remove all - the later ones can't.

 

I think that's what the OP tried at first but when he re-enabled system restore the last retore point was back. (which makes sense)

The very 1st? Who uses that?

 

You could run 2 have it on an external drive.

The thing is, sometimes you don't gain a lot from the newer version - even nothing at all.

I don't even use system restore as it has never done anything good for me... and I'm on a SSD - space is expensive

Also means though, there is an added risk - I'll take that though.

 

If I had a nickel for every person who's turned off system restore and later regretted it.....

 

Never did me any good - and on a SSD space is a premium

 

I reduced it to 1%. 1.2gb is a small price to pay for system restore.

 

If a new technology is so expensive and finicky that you need to shut off beneficial (some say essential) system services, then the technology isn't suitable for your use.

 

The question is, are system restores benefitial?

On my computers, the very few times I have used them they destroyed more than they resolved - so when I have to do an OS install anyway...

And you can leave it turned on on an SSD, you don't have to get rid of it.

 

Ok, this is kinda weird but it's happening again. My laptop has local C: drive and an USB external E: drive, I set up to create restore point on the E: drive but for some reason, it creates a restore point on the C: drive as well. I plug & unplug the E: drive pretty regularly, i don't know if that forces the system backup to create point on the C: drive. Can anyone elaborate?