That was true in XP. Want to double-check please in Vista?
"mikeyhsd" <mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com> wrote in message news:%23hNFO7qKHHA.2236@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
its easy to limit the amount of disk space used for restore.
on the System Properties pages you can change the % allocated.



mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com



"Robert Blacher" <rblacher@community.nospam> wrote in message news:147FF671-3B1D-40FB-AC21-D7E726B19843@microsoft.com...
The syntax of the vssadmin command is not a lot of fun, but it does allow
you to control the amount of space allocated to system restore and shadow
copies.

See:

http://vistasupport.mvps.org/decreas...em_restore.htm


"Mike" <weapon_x22@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:20E29BD8-7193-456D-8B64-64816C381A80@microsoft.com...
> Nevermind, it turns out that it was the System Restore, I didn't realize
> that it could use up to 15% of your HDD space, 15% of 600GB is a lot of
> space and you do notice... Question is, should I turn it off?
>
> "Mike" <weapon_x22@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:837C1299-92DC-46DA-B070-FC0582743F04@microsoft.com...
>>I have a really stupid question: What is the System Volume Information
>>folder used for? And why does it contain 60GB of data there?
>>
>> Running Vista x64bit Build 6000 (RTM)
>> RAID5 (x3 320GB)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>