I have occupied 25 gb space of c drive for system resore point. and system automatically created 5 restore point and delete privous resore points. but i want to keep very 1st resore point and last 4 i dont't want. but windows don't allow to remove individual resore point. it only give option to delete every created resore point. Is it any ways to delete specific resore point?
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You can use newer version of Ccleaner. In this you can delete individual restore points.
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To Delete all system restore points but keep the most recent one - do the following:
- Open Disk Cleanup by clicking the Start button. In the search box, type Disk Cleanup, and then, in the list of results, click Disk Cleanup.
- If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
- In the Disk Cleanup for (drive letter) dialog box, click Clean up system files. Administrator permission required If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
- If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.
- Click the More Options tab, under System Restore and Shadow Copies, click Clean up.
- In the Disk Cleanup dialog box, click Delete.
- Click Delete Files, and then click OK.
How To Delete Old Restore Points Windows 10
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Use C:WindowsSystem32vssadmin.exe it's self documenting: vssadmin /?
List your restore points:vssadmin list shadows
In the list note the Shadow Copy ID for the restore point you want to delete: Shadow Copy ID: {aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-eeeeeeeeeeee}
Delete the restore point:vssadmin delete shadows /shadow={aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-eeeeeeeeeeee}
If you only want to delete the oldest one:vssadmin delete shadows /for=C: /oldest
In your case you'd have to manually delete them by the id in order to leave the oldest intact. I don't know if vssadmin is available on all versions of Windows but at least on Pro versions.
Warning: also backups made with Windows backup and possibly other programs are created as shadow copies. I don't know what happens if you delete such.
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Am i missing something? What the OP wants is indeed possible. The Answer of Kilves76 is really good but just a taste of what you can do, with care and clear thought.
Go here:
The site says it's for IT professionals, which is why i mentioned 'clear thought'. But what i found is clear enough to make me go to DOS by running COMMAND.exe as administrator and issue the command
to get Help, which gives a list of 7 commands. Then similarly get help with each of the commands by adding '/?' after each.
Take notes by copying all the help info into a text file, read, and say, 'That's easy enough' and have at it carefully. Or say, 'Uhhhh-uhuhh' and get the heck out of there!
(I can almost see an outline of a batch file to make mass deletions easier. But i always think that and usually find implementation a large pain or exercise in futility.)
EDITA few days ago I said that I may post my notes. Here they are:
Other commands (read about them and more at the link at the top of this Answer):
VSSADMIN LIST PROVIDERS
and VSSADMIN LIST WRITERS
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If you are making good use of the system restore feature in Windows, then you realize that all the restore points are taking up a lot of storage space in your hard disk. The good thing is you can easily delete system restore points as needed to gain back lost space.
Delete All Old System Restore Points at Once
Windows provides an option to quickly delete all but recent restore points. However, this option is buried deep and you may not find it unless you know where to look.
To delete all old restore points, search for “Disk Cleanup” in the Start menu and open it.
The above action will open the Disk Cleanup utility. Select “Primary (C:)” from the drop-down menu and click on the “OK” button.
Click on the “Clean up system files” button. Since the restore points are system files, you cannot see them unless you choose to clean up the system files.
This action will re-open the cleanup wizard. Select the C drive and click on the “OK” button.
You will see a new “More Options” tab in the window. Navigate to the new tab and click on the “Clean up” button under “System Restore and Shadow Copies” section.
In the confirmation window, click on the “Delete” button. As soon as you do, Windows will delete all the old restore points while keeping the recent ones.
Delete Old System Restore Points Individually
If you’d rather pick and choose which restore points to delete, you can do that too. Since Windows has no specific option to delete individual restore points, we are going to use a free and lightweight third-party tool called System Restore Explorer. Download and install it like any other software.
After installing, launch it by searching for it in the Start menu. As soon as you launch it you will see all restore points. By default, the software will hide the restore points created in the last five days. If you want to see them, uncheck the “Hide restore points created in the last 5 days” checkbox.
The good thing about this software is that you can mount the restore points and see what’s in them. It’s very useful if you want to recover files or folders. To mount a restore point, select it from the list and click on the “Mount” button.
The above action will mount the restore point and open it in the File Explorer. You can explore it like any other drive or folder.
Once you are done with that, click on the “Unmount” button to unmount the mounted restore point.
To delete a restore point, simply select it from the list and click on the “Delete” button.
Click on the “Yes” button in the confirmation window and you are done.
As you can see from the below image, deleting a restore point freed up around 5Gb of space.
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Alternatively, if you are using CCleaner then you don’t have to install any other software. Open CCleaner with admin rights and navigate to “Tools -> System Restore.” Here you can select and delete any individual restore points as needed. However, you will miss the “Mount” feature provided by System Restore Explorer.
Do comment below sharing your thoughts and experiences about using the above methods to delete old restore points in Windows.
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