re: Can I delete _RESTORE ?
Tuesday, June 8, 2004 at 9:54 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bruce
(1 messages posted)
I encountered the same predicament that Bram did, although my loss of hard drive
space was much less. I searched through many, many helpful suggestions. Yet this
one was the clear, simple and declarative (thank you, Ernest Hemingway) solution
that worked at eliminating _RESTORE. And, it was FAST! I hope it works for everyone...
AND - thank you very much Poster "m"!!! Good luck everyone....
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Definitive, definitive, final all encompassing solution
Tuesday, February 3, 2004 at 1:10 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by m (1 messages posted)
Well after reading all the tips you guys left here I have a final solution:
1. Right click My Computer
2. Select properties
3. Click the Performance tab
4. Click the File System button
5. Click the Troubleshooting tab
6. Check Disable System Restore. If it is already checked then uncheck it, click
Apply, check it again, click Apply again.
7. Click OK twice but choose NO when it asks you to reboot
8. Type msconfig in the run box. Click the Startup tab. If there is an entry for
StateMgr then it must be removed. Go to step 9 to remove entry. Otherwise go to step
15
9. Type regedit in the run box.
10. Go to the root node (my computer) and hit CTRL-F. Type statemgr in the Find What
box (look in keys, values and data. Uncheck match whole string only).
11. Click the Find Next button.
12. You should find a key in the RunServices folder (mine was [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices])
13. Find the *StateMgr entry and delete it. DO NOT DELETE THE WHOLE RunServices folder,
ONLY DELETE THE *StateMgr ENTRY. This will prevent StateMgr from starting up and
creating a new _RESTORE folder all over again.
14. Close regedit
15. Reboot your machine
16. Right click on the _Restore folder and delete it. Delete it from the recycle
bin if it went there.
17. Marvel at how much hard drive space you've managed to steal back from Bill Gates.
On Sunday, May 5, 2002 at 10:22 am, Bram Luyckx wrote:
>There's a "_RESTORE" directory in my C: root. It has 4 small files in it, taking
>60K. But in its properties window it says 1350 files taking more than 1GB... I want
>to delete the directory but I'm not sure that's safe. Anyone knows?
>Thanks
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- Can I delete _RESTORE ? (Bram Luyckx: Sunday, May 5, 2002 at 10:22 am)
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