System Restore Weight Loss Three Axe

"System Restore" is one of the most useful functions of Windows XP. It uses "snapshot" to record the status information of the system at a specific time, which is called "restore point", and then according to these when needed. Information is restored. There are two types of restore points: one is automatically created by the system, including system checkpoints and installation restore points; the other is created by the user himself or herself, also called manual restore point. As the user's system time increases, the number of restore points will increase, resulting in less and less hard disk space. Finally, it will be warned that "the disk space is insufficient". Therefore, it is necessary to lose weight for "system restore"!


The first board axe to select the monitored drive



By default, the system will automatically monitor all drives unless there is free space on the drive Less than 200MB. But in fact, we only need to monitor the operating system and the drive where the document we created is located:

Click "Start → Control Panel → System" to switch to the "System Restore" tab. First select the drive to be set under the "Drive" window, such as "F", then click the "Settings" button on the right, in the window shown in Figure 1, open, select "Close the system restore on this drive" The check box in front of '', the disk space adjustment slider below will be grayed out, indicating that System Restore on the drive has been turned off. When you have turned off System Restore on a drive, you can delete the System Volume Information folder in the root directory of the drive.

If your disk space is tight, but you want to use the "system restore" function, you can in the window shown in Figure 1, Clear the checkbox in front of "Turn off System Restore on this drive" and use the mouse to drag the slider under "Disk Space to Use" to set the amount of disk space used by System Restore.

1. Unless you choose "Turn off System Restore on all drives", the drive where the operating system is located must be monitored, which means you can't just monitor other drives without monitoring the system drive. 2. If the disk space is exhausted, System Restore will become inactive "suspended" (that is, automatically shut down) state. System Restore will be automatically activated only if you have enough disk space, but all previous restore points will be lost. 3. We can define the size of the "System Restore" adjustable space: Click "Start → Run", enter "Regedit" and press Enter to open the Registry Editor. Then expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE \\ SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\SystemRestore branch. In the right window, you can see two DWORD values ​​"DSMax" and "DSMin", which represent the maximum and minimum disk space that can be used by the system restore. Just modify their key values ​​directly. There is also a DWord value called "DiskPercent" under this branch, which indicates the percentage of disk space to be allocated for system restore. The default value is 12%, which we can adjust as needed.


Second board axe manually delete restore points



As mentioned above, there is a restore point is automatically recorded by the system, since it is system automatic If you create it, you will inevitably have a self-assertion. If you hate Windows "self-love", you can delete these restore points, but how can you not "injure"?

First of all, we have to find the folder where the restore point is saved. Please make sure that "Show all files and folders" is set in "Folder Options" and clear "Hide Protected Operating System Files (Recommended) "The check box before." At this point you can see that there is a "System Volume Information" folder in each monitored drive. When you open it, you will see a hidden folder with a long name, such as "_restore{299846DD- 6F80-45EF-9DC5-5E2A107D84B1}". Below are some folders called "RPx" and three other files (two of which are configuration files, and the other file records information about all your drives), where "x" is a continuous number. The number of these folders represents the total number of restore points, and each folder corresponds to a specific restore point. Obviously, the earliest restore point corresponds to the first folder, "RP1". Now, delete the restore points created by the system, just keep what you think is useful!

1. Because System Volume Information is a system-level folder, you must first log in to the system as Administrator before deleting. 2. When we install a certain hardware (such as graphics card) driver, the system will automatically create a restore point in case of failure to return to the original driver. If the system is working properly after installing the driver, then you can delete the system. This restore point is created automatically.


The third board only retains the most recent restore point



We can also use "Disk Cleanup" to keep only the most recent restore points. To do this, right-click the drive letter you want to clean in the Explorer, select Properties→General from the pop-up menu, and then click the Disk Cleanup command to switch from the Open Disk Cleanup dialog box. Go to the "Other Options" tab, as shown in Figure 2, click the "Clean" button under "System Restore", and click "Yes" in the dialog box that pops up.

When Windows XP cannot log in normally, you can enter safe mode and then restore to a previous restore point with System Restore. If Windows XP encounters a serious system error and cannot enter safe mode, we can also press F8 when Windows XP starts, select "Safe Mode with Command Prompt", and then log in as an administrator, prompt at the command line. Enter "%systemroot%\\system32\ estore\ strui.exe" and press Enter, then follow the on-screen prompts.