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Post by mikkh on Aug 5, 2010 16:58:32 GMT
... or the artist formerly known as system restore I barely run Windows 7, so after a bit of housekeeping on it today I was surprised to see 3 GB+ used by system restore points I deleted them all and then set a new restore point to see how big a single one was - 68 MB in my case 3 GB (and it was over half way to 4) is an awful lot of 68 MB's So you people who use it daily must have much bigger wastes of space than me. I suppose it doesn't matter much with modern drives being mostly 500 GB or bigger, but it seems a lot to me especially as I don't use it much
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Post by elvisuk on Aug 5, 2010 18:12:28 GMT
Well i have never look at system restore so i don't now how much i have use but i will have a look next time i go into W7 just to see how much has been use ;D
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Post by johnnybee on Nov 11, 2013 0:46:53 GMT
I don't use sysres at all - never have; I remember only too well some advice given to me by a geek mate of mine, when he said that viruses always target sysres files so that they can hide from AV programmes and re-infest the system when used to restore. I subsequently had several instances of that sort of thing with friends' and neighbours' PC's, so after those experiences I always used to disable it, and still do.
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Post by vikingken on Nov 11, 2013 12:08:31 GMT
I never used it on XP, I found it very unreliable. It seems to work better on Windows 7 and I have found it quite useful at times. I do remove everything except the last restore point, if I remember to do it. Not that I'm short of space, I dont keep anything on the C:/ drive longer than I have to. MBAM scans inside of restore files now, so its no longer a hiding place for nasties. If SAS finds anything more than tracking cookies, always run MBAM and it will find the hidden ones in the restore files. You never get just one Trojan, they are like grapes and come in bunches.
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