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How To Delete All Restore Points Without Disabling System Restore Feature In Windows 7

Posted January 20, 2010 – 4:49 pm in: Windows 7 Guides
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We have already shown how to delete all but the most recent system restore point in Windows 7 so that you can easily free up disk space. What if you want to delete all system restore points at a time?

System Restore Icon

Although you can disable Windows System Restore feature to remove all restore points easily, disabling System Restore feature is not a good idea. So here is a simple way to remove all system restore points in Windows 7:

1. Type sysdm.cpl in Start menu search field and hit enter to launch System Properties.

Start Menu Search

2. Switch to System Protection tab.

 

3. Under Protection Settings, select the drive and then click Configure button.

System Properties

4. In the resulting dialog-box, click Delete button to remove all restore points including system settings and previous versions of files.

Delete all restore points

5. When you see the System Protection confirmation box, click Continue button to start the process. Wait for a few seconds to see “The restore points were deleted successfully” message.

Delete all restore points confirmation

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6. You can now manually create a fresh system restore point (if you like to do so) and close all boxes.  

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One Comment

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    Posted January 21, 2010 at 11:19 am | Permalink

    you can have other fast, comprehensive and less space consuming backup and restore solutions.

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