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Vista Tip: Change System Restore Size

by Alpesh Nakar

In Windows Vista, system restore size has been set at 15% of the hard drives capacity. If you had a 100GB hard drive, that converts to 1500MB for System Restore. You don’t need that.

So use this tip to change system restore size in Windows Vista.

Open the command line and use the following command to change the size of System Restore in Windows Vista:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=4GB0

This would change the allocated size of System Restore on drive C: for drive C: to 4 gigabytes. Please note that the on: parameter is the drive letter where the System Restore files are stored while the for: parameter defines the drive that the files should be backed up from. The maxsize parameter is pretty obvious. It can’t go below 300 Megabytes. If you remove the maxsize parameter the settings will be changed to the default ones again.

If you select a size that is lower than the current amount of space the oldest entries in System Restory will be deleted first.

Via gHack


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