How much space you free up when turning off system restore in XP ?

How much GB you gain on your HD by doing this ?

 

Depends on how much you alloted to it in the first place.

 

I didn't allocate any space , how much does the system allocate by default ?

 

5% probably.

 

Do I have to manually free up the space or is this done automatically ?

 

It is done automatically.

 

First, what operating system. Second, Don't. Disable. System Restore.

XP was 12 percent of the drive. Vista was 15 percent. It had to be changed with a command line. Win 7 I think the default limit is 3 percent, but it can be adjusted with a slider under system protections.

Third, Don't. Disable. System Restore. If you absolutely must, reduce the amount allocated.

Fourth, Don't. Disable. System Restore.

Storage is cheap. Your system is expensive. Your time is expensive. I save 3 people this week from an expensive virus removal by simply telling them to run system restore.

Fifth, Don't. Disable. System Restore.

This forum is littered with idiots who disabled system restore and had a problem with their computer and when a wiser person tried to help them solve a problem by telling them to run system restore, the idiots said, "I turned system restore off. What do I do now?"

After all of us were done laughing at the idiots, we said 'REINSTALL YOUR SYSTEM YOU MORON!"

Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth.

Don't. Disable. System Restore.

If you do, we will all be laughing at you.

 

I agree with the recommendation to NOT disable system restore.

It's far more useful to leave it in case you need it, and those who mentioned it's utterly worthless ... well, I used it on numerous computers, and (successfully) averted various problems.

You can reduce the amount of space it occupies on the HDD for example (in XP, you actually have a slider for this ... and if you must, then reduce it to about 7%, maybe 10% ... depending on your partition size).

In Vista and Win7, modifying the size of system restore can be done via command prompt.
There is a specific command process to my recollection, and you can look it up online.

 

psst...they put the slider back in win7

 

What choice do you have when you only have a 8 GB SSD and only 300 MB free space with just XP installed?


If there are problems , I just do a reinstall , VERY SIMPLE

 

I'm sorry...did I stutter? Don't Disable System Restore.

If you're running Windows XP on an 8gb ssd, your problems are far greater than saving a little space by disabling system restore.

You can disable the prefetecher, timestamps, indexing, ntfs journal changes and disk caching all you want, but the imperceptable performance gains for Windows XP on an ssd are not worth the usefulness of a real harddrive for that OS.

But, what do I know. I don't disable system restor, run XP on an SSD or waste my time reinstalling Windows because I couldn't restore it to an earlier time with three mouse clicks. I don't even know why I bother giving people advice on computer forums. Yep, I am an idiot.

 

Just a sort of tangential question: how often has the OP been reinstalling on this 8GB ssd, and how frequently has he been using it? It strikes me that some of the problems might be due to sectors on the drive going past their maximum write-cycles and failing.