I have disabled restore point but yet it has 2.38GB and deleting it won't do anything. Tried to drag the thingy to 0% but it won't work. Before it was 0%. How do I delete or set it to 0% again? OS: Win 10 2016 LTSB
I don't understand? I think system restore point was disabled by default and I never enabled it but yet it still somehow has 2.38GB which I can't delete either. Something is wrong here?
What is wrong is you have tweaked to much, not knowing what disabling this, uninstalling that, you did not think Windows 10 would work as expected after what you did?, well it will work fine after you reinstall it, and this time, before you do all these tweaks, google and find out what happens to Win 10.
Hello WinFree - I think your problem is that you turned off system restore first, then tried deleting your restore points. You should have done the opposite. Try this: 1.) Right-click and open an elevated Command Prompt (as Administrator). 2.) Enter "wmic"; this will return a new prompt "wmic:root\cli>". 3.) Enter "shadowcopy"; this will return a list of the existing shadow copies on your system. 4.) Enter "shadowcopy delete"; you will be prompted "Y/N"; enter "Y". 5.) Keep repeating step #4 until you see the message "No instances available" returned. 6.) Enter "exit" to exit the wmic prompt, then close the Command Prompt. EDIT: The suspense is killing me. Did this work or not?
Thank you. I did try that. Did tell me after first run "No instances available" like there was nothing to delete. I think I may have misunderstood the whole thing. I think the 1% (2.38GB) only is how much space is left for system restore point. The minimum would be 1% space for system restore point. The thing is that 1% was never there from the beginning. At this point I don't care. I have disabled system restore point from msconfig and no backups can be made.
OK. Maybe I misunderstood you as well. I thought you had 2.38GB worth of system restore points on the disk and you couldn't delete them. I think that once that slider is set to anything > zero, there is no way to return it to zero, 1% is the minimum setting.
I can't take a screenshot. It is same as picture 2 above: Current Usage: 0 bytes Max Usage: 2.38GB (1%) Thats it.
I think you've got the correct idea. My minimum is 1% too, cannot set it to 0, this is normal, so don't worry. And the GB figure is the space reserved for it, not actually occupied. This is quite clear, as it should say "1% (2.38GB)", which implies your system partition is about 240GB. But if you want to confirm this, increase to 2% and you'll see the figure double. But what really matters in this discussion, is that turning System Restore off is not a good idea. For that 1% disc space premium, it can save your system from re-installation.
vssadmin delete shadows /for=c: /all /quiet reg delete "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SPP\Clients" /v "{09F7EDC5-294E-4180-AF6A-FB0E6A0E9513}" /f reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\SystemRestore" /v "DisableSR" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\SystemRestore\SR" /Disable