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Karen wants to go back further than the restore points that appear in System Restore
Hello there you two! Actually, I have a question that pertains to Vista and Win 7. Is there a way to go back into restore points and restore your pc further then the options given? Like about 3 months ago or something as such? Thank you so very much! Karen

Our answer
Hello and thanks, Karen. The answer to your question is "no, you can't". The number of restore points available to you is directly related to the amount of drive space you've allocated to System Restore. The default setting is for System Restore to use 2% of your available drive space. If you want more System Restore points, you'd need to increase the amount of drive space available for System Restore to use. If you'd like to increase the amount of drive space allocated to System Restore you can do it by following these steps:

1. Click the start button and right-click "Computer"
2. Select "Properties"
3. Select "System Protection"
4. Click the "System Protection" tab
5. Click the "Configure" button next to "Configure restore settings, manage disk space, and delete restore points."
6. In the dialog window, use the slider to increase the space available to System Restore.
7. Click "Apply" and then "OK"

We would recommend that you not use more than 5 to 7% of your total available disk space. While it may seem like a good idea to have as many restore points as possible, restore points use huge amounts of disk space. If you really want to be safe, create an image based backup using a program like Paragon Backup & Recovery (free). Create the image-based backup when your computer is running well and you have all the programs installed that you need and use often. That way, if anything happens, rather than relying on System Restore to go a few months back in time (which would use up a serious amount of disk space) use your image backup to restore your computer to an earlier time. You image backup can be created and saved for months or even years, and you can use it to revert your computer back to the date of the backup.

System Restore is a great feature and it comes in handy - but keeping restore points for months is impractical as it would use up far too much of you hard drive.

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