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low disk space
It's, as you know, when he starts creating and saving files that his hard disk usage will increase. If your brother's account was a limited account, you could use Disk Quotas to Reduce the amount of disk space allocated to System Restore. Lowering the amount from the default 12% can save considerable space.

Creating space on C:
Gerry ge...@nospam.com microsoft public windowsxp basics There are some files which mess up reconciliing used space + free space = disk size. To increase you free space on your XP partition select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the

Restore Points
I downloaded Quicken 2004 last week, and got a disk space full error. I checked the disc space, and 18.5 of the 18.6 GB are full. I deleted a bunch of programs, 'System Restore' can be very helpful, although it should NOT be used as a substitute for good, frequent backups. -- Mark Lloyd http://go.to/notstupid

Losing System Restore Points after a few days
"Alex Nichol" <Alexn....@btinternet.delete.com> wrote in message news:rhqq5uo80dfkfi46grgvoe8lkkc4j4bhnt@4ax.com... mrtee wrote: I think that he wants to see a 12% increase in available disk space, or whatever % it was set to. If he turns off system restore to save space for backups then turns it back on after the

Can you reduce bloated Windows Folder to increase disk space o
There other possibility is a hidden folder, will hidden unless you have unhidden system folders in Explorer, System Volume Information. This folder contains the System Restore information for that particular XP applet and will grow the file by the amount specified for it, the default is 12% of your disk space.

Think I caught a bug . . . or not
anonymous anonym...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsme systemtools I cannot increase my system restore disk space usage. it says (Insufficent disk space) when i try to move the slider to the right, and i now that isn't true because i have over 65 gigabytes free space on my hard drive. what's going

Hard Drive space
System Restore needs at least 200 mb of free disk space in order to function. If you allocate less than 200 mb, System Restore becomes inactive. If at some future date you want to re-activate it, just free up enough disk space and System Restore becomes active again. To increase or decrease the amount of free space

System Restore and Driver Rollback
Where do you change the settings for frequency of restore point creation. All I can find is an option for enabling or disabling system restore and changing the disk space allotted. There isn't any way to change the frequency with which a restore point is automatically created, you can either increase the disk space

60GB Hard disk showing all used up in Properties
Jeff To increase you free space on your C select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be quite large. It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore on your C

defrag not reducing fragmentation
My hard drive is partitioned, but the "C" drive was partitioned to hold only the system files. Now I keep getting low disk space and cannot use the system restore. How can I increase the disk size of my "C" drive? Can I merge partitions or use some of the unallocated space from another area on my hard drive?

Can You Increase default maximum allowed shadow storage space?
To increase you free space on your E partition select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be quite large. You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove

System restore disk space question
Gary glam4seas_...@mediaone.net microsoft public windowsme new-user I checked the "System restore disk space use" in the files system property which is at its maximum -512MB With that little disk space, I noticed that only one or two check points were in the system restore shop. Is there away to increase it?

System Restore using 129GB of 150GB drive
Also select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore point. Ways to increase free disk space on your C partition can be achieved by relocation of folders. For Temporary Internet Files select Start, Control Panel,

System restore problem
Also select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore point. doncee <nopsamdbc9...@nospamswbell.wanted> wrote: Have recently experienced a mysterious increase in amount of disk space used when checking properties of C

photodraw v2 and Windows ME
You can not restore system files from a backup. You can limit the disk space allocated to System Restore. Press Winkey+r To reduce (or increase) the disk space Given i back my files up - I can live without the restore option. "Mick Murphy" wrote: I have 80G HD, which equates to 75G; of which I have used 50G,

Uninstalling Programs doesn't return hard disk space.
Right click on My Computer and select Properties and then the System Restore tab. Select you drive and click on Settings. Reduce the amount of disk space used by System Restore. Reducing disk space will also reduce the number of restore points saved. After you defrag, you could increase the disk space if your

I am in desperate need of some help.
Another way to reclaim space is to turn off system restore. this will delete and reclaim space used by existing restore points. If the peak value starts to get close to the Limit, you know you need to increase the size of the pagefile. If you have system managed page file, xp does this for you.

System Restore , Insufficient disk space
I also found that once i manually selected to create a restore point everything worked fine until the next reboot when system restore turned itself off. The only option was to backup my data partition to CD and clear the partition completely to increase the disk space. The problem was then solved.

low disk space
Some suggestions to increase free disk space on C. It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select

Get Rid Of System Restore
-system restore and hibernation are off. -the swap file and temp files reside on a different partition. -When I select all the files on C and view their properties, the "size" and "size on disk" values are always about the same (even though the "Used Space" value will increase by 400-600 megs) This would seem to