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I decided to finally write some original content for this bitchin site, and its a pretty good tip.

We're going to be clearing up some hard-drive space in Windows.

Be default, Windows allocates a good chunk of your hard drive to the system restore. In Windows XP it's 12%, and in Vista it's 15%. That's a lot of space, considering the average hard drive is around 300-500GB these days.


You can adjust that setting however. In Windows XP, simply right click on 'my computer' and go to 'properties'. Click the 'system restore' tab, and there is a slider there. Moving that, you can adjust how much space is allocated to system restore. Adjust it accordingly.

First off, open cmd.exe and run it as an administrator.

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  Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 2:02:56 PM #20885
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forgot to mention that these images were uploaded using treatspin.com, as always its the best.

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  Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 4:19:40 PM #20895
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I have my system restore turned off.

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  Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 6:15:10 PM #20900
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Good for you n00b

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  Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 1:43:44 AM #20915
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Good post. System restore is a hard drive whore. I don't use it and never will.

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  Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 2:57:06 AM #20942
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I gave you a 5, nice info.

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I thank you and my ghost writer thanks you too.

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