Yup. Not a very satisfactory solution for many people, having to turn off
System Restore on a single drive system in order to get rid of the previous
versions feature. I hope, but in vain no doubt, for a revision of this that
separates the two features. For anyone who has solid backup procedures the
previous versions feature can be a liability. A side job of mine involves
helping a not-for-profit legal aid group handle some IT chores. These guys
don't want "previous versions" of deleted files hanging around to haunt them
on their notebook systems. Can't say I blame them. So I had to kill System
Restore, which could have been useful to them at times, in order to keep them
from suffering possible legal ramifications of supposedly deleted files. Not
that the way XP handles deletions would prevent someone with data recovery
software from retrieving old files, but there is a considerable difference in
exposure.

"Jesper" wrote:

> > I am very uncomfortable having all my files with "previous versions" stored
> > all over my PC in backups. Can this me limited or turned off?
>
> They are not "all over [your] PC" but rather in the <driveletter>\System
> Volume Information folder. No matter, do this:
>
> 1. Open Control Panel
> 2. Open System and Maintenance
> 3. Open System
> 4. Click System protection
> 5. Accept the elevation prompt
> 6. Uncheck the drives that you want to disable System Restore and Previous
> Versions for.
>
> Once you turn this off you lose both Previous Versions and System Restore.
> For instance, if you turn it off on the C: drive and then install something
> that completely horks your system you need to figure out how to manually
> remove it. You cannot use System Restore to go back to a previous working
> configuration.