re: Can I delete _RESTORE ?
Thursday, December 30, 2004 at 5:18 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by brian
(497 messages posted)
the proper way to get rid of system restore and still be able to restore the function
is at this page. you might need the fuction say when using windows update and you
get those results windows could not upgrade the file1%2%,etc.
http://www.emulators.com/secrets.htm#KILLSYSREST
from his page ;
"How to shut off this ridiculous System Restore "feature"? Well, this was the kicker.
You can't simply delete the backed up files because the entire _RESTORE directory
is marked as "in use" and thus can't be deleted. And since Microsoft removed the
"Exit to DOS" feature, one can't just exit Windows to a DOS prompt like before. While
there is an obscure "Disable System Restore" option buried away in the System control
panel applet, interestingly enough under the "Performance - File System - Troubleshooting"
tab, that still doesn't help with all the wasted hard disk space.
So here is my brute force solution to shut off and remove all traces of System Restore:
In Control Panels, Add/Remove Programs, create a Windows boot disk. It's really an
MS-DOS boot disk.
Shut down Windows and reboot the PC from the floppy disk.
Type SMARTDRV 8192 to install an 8 megabyte disk cache (it will speed up the file
deletion)
Go the C: prompt by typing C:
Type "C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DELTREE C:\_RESTORE" to remove all the System Restore files.
Create a bogus file called _RESTORE by, for example, running EDIT and creating a
blank text file.
Type "C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ATTRIB +r +s +h _RESTORE" to hide this file. This will prevent
Windows from re-creating its hidden directory.
Now reboot the PC and watch Windows Millennium run much faster!"
brian
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- re: Can I delete _RESTORE ? (vin: Monday, December 20, 2004 at 3:11 pm)
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