System Restore is a valuable safety feature, but it doesn't need to take over your hard drive. By checking how much space it's using, deleting old restore points, and setting a reasonable storage ...

System Restore is a long-standing feature on Windows 11. Its purpose is to create snapshots of the computer's current working state and save them as "restore points" when specific events are triggered ...

Microsoft has changed how Windows 11 manages System Restore points after its June 2025 security update. The update, KB5060842, says that starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, System Restore points ...

Now let’s see these in detail. net stop vss net stop swprv cd /d %windir%\system32 regsvr32 /s ole32.dll regsvr32 /s oleaut32.dll regsvr32 /s vss_ps.dll vssvc ...

In this post, we will show you how to fix the error message Could not configure the disk space used for System Protection on a Windows 11/10 PC. The message is linked ...

A week ago I wrote about my investigations into System Restore on Windows XP and Windows Vista. I have since heard back from a program manager at Microsoft, who said of the Vista default disk ...