Somebody else out there must be seeing this This problem is driving me nuts. Thanks in advance for any help. Joined Aug 1, Messages 51, Not going to reboot to try this, but try adding yourself to the System Volume Information folder's full access permissions and then reboot into Safe Mode to try to clean out the folder. Elvandil said:. Joined Oct 21, Messages Booting back to Vista, when I change ownership and make sure under the auditing tab both the Administrator account and the System account have full control, and under the Edit button both again are selected, with full control again, I can use Move On Boot 1.
I have restore turned off, so the only file I can delete on reboot is the tracking file, which shows the new time it was recreated, so it is being deleted. To test it, I copied the MOB exe to the folder, right clicked it and chose delete file s on next reboot. When I rebooted, it was gone. It's not a perfect solution, but at least you should be able to get rid of the files in the folders.
You can lasso all the files in a folder and choose to delete them, they don't need to be done individually. This didn't work for me either. I must've messed up my user account at some point in the past. It's nice finally getting access to the filesystem without Vista getting in the way. Thanks guys for all your suggestions.
JohnWill Retired Moderator. Joined Oct 19, Messages , Why not just turn off system restore, then turn it back on? This will remove all the restore points, then you can create a "starter" restore point and move on.
JohnWill said:. Rollin' Rog. Joined Dec 9, Messages 45, I don't know about Vista yet -- but on XP I believe one method of deleting older System Restore points is to limit the amount of drive space made available to System Restore -- only the more recent restore points that fit in that space allocation will be preserved.
Rollin' Rog said:. Lol, well at least I can hope they've made it more reliable than XP's which had way too many catch22 dependencies Should have a Vista system to start playing with Friday. MMJ Guest. Joined Oct 15, Messages 3, Did you try using killbox or the likes? Well, I'd make a full image backup just in case , and then try this: Turn off System recovery in Vista first, then Boot from the Vista DVD and use the recovery console to remove the restore points.
Hasn't the recovery console been removed in Vista? And isn't there a command prompt tool available as an alternative? Well, you don't want Vista running for the exercise, so perhaps an XP install disk would do the trick. Insert your Vista DVD and boot from it. You will see the loading files screen, then the first installation screen will appear. Click next on first screen, then click the link that says recovery options.
Windows will search for any valid installations, once this is completed, click next. Select CompletePC Restore. As Seen On. Welcome to Tech Support Guy! Latest posts. What's for Dinner? Random Discussion. Please help 1 Viewer Latest: Cookiegal 6 minutes ago. For example, your computer fails to boot, you cannot use system restore points to recover it. It only keeps a track of a snapshot of your computer state, not everything.
At this time, only a system backup can get your computer back. Then, how to protect your system without disk space issues? You can try a professional backup software in the next part. Its backup and deletion mechanisms can help you protect your system but not worry about the backup disk space.
And it works on a much broader scale, you can get your computer even if it fails. It works as follows:. Its Schedule Backup feature will create multiple backups for you while its Backup Scheme feature allows you to specify backup deletion policy. It will delete the backups within a specific backup time, and keep other backups after that. You can set the deletion mechanisms either during or after creating a backup.
Download and install this software on your computer. Then, select System Backup under the Backup tab, it will choose the system partitions and other partitions required to start Windows. Choose a destination path to store the backup image. Specify the retention policy you want to use and click Start Backup to complete this configuration. Options : you can set email notification, backup compression and encryption, etc. Schedule Backup : you can set backup settings - daily, weekly, monthly, event trigger, and USB plug-in.
Select the previously created system backup, click the three-line button and select Edit Backup. In the pop-up window, click Backup Scheme and set a backup retention policy to delete old backup files for reuse. System restore points are very useful to help you save your computer from an emergency, but sometimes you need to delete it due to insufficient disk space. You have two ways but all of them require human intervention every time.
If you don't want to do it manually every time or need a guaranteed way to save your computer, wether it's a problem related to Windows updates, drivers, software or something more serious that even makes your computer unbootable, you could choose to create a system image backup rather than just a snapshot of current state of your computer.
Then, no matter what happens, you can restore system image to new hard drive and then make your computer work as it was. More surprising, you can use it to restore system image to another computer with dissimilar hardware, you just need to check "Universal Restore" feature before restoring. Why delete system restore points? Manually delete system restore points in Windows There are two options.
Delete all restore points 1. Click the Configure button in the System Properties window. Delete all but the most recent restore point 1. It works as follows: Its Schedule Backup feature will create multiple backups for you while its Backup Scheme feature allows you to specify backup deletion policy.
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