VISTA: In my C: drive too much space is occupied…how can I restore….

Most probably the restore points are taking too much space. The restore points are kept in the folder system volume information. But normally you cannot check the size of it. So, I did one thing. I went to properties -> permission and gave myself permission over the folder. And then was able to check its size, and it was 15 GB!!!!!!!!!!! Holy shit. So, its now time to manage it. I don’t need that much of restore points either. So, I decided to decrease it. Open a command prompt window. Check the size of the restore points using the command:

vssadmin list ShadowStorage

There you can see the size of your restore points. And then I have issued to following command to decrease the size from 15 GB to 3 GB :)

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /Maxsize=3GB

Use the command as shown, it is case sensitive.

Now next culprit in my system was the “WAUUPGRD” folder. It’s the windows anytime upgrade program which enables us to upgrade to a better vista at anytime :) So, do I need that, no I don’t. But its better to keep it in backup though. Just in case. So, I zipped it and uploaded it to a file server and deleted it safely :) another three and a half G.