Tag: hexadecimal

Customizing The System Restore Options in Vista

July 03, 2007 by Jason

In Vista, SystemRestore is set to delete restore points after roughly 136 years … yeah, let that sink…

Normally Windows uses up to 15 percent of a drive’s available space to save restore points. In XP, the option to change this figure was configurable from the System Restore tab of the System Properties dialog box. But sadly this option is no longer offered in Vista. But u can do so as follows : Open regedit and go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\ SystemRestore\Cfg Double-click the DiskPercent. The default is f (in hexadecimal) which is 15 in decimal. Read More»