DIRECT invocation of "delete all but most recent restore point"?

The "standard" contorted procedure (via "Disk Cleanup")
takes many (undesired) steps and wastes a lot of time,
to finally get to where one can find a button
to delete all but the most recent restore point
(then still more steps to actually do it).

How might this function be _directly_ invoked?

Thanks!

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On Oct 24, 4:35*am, "John H Meyers" wrote:
The "standard" contorted procedure (via "Disk Cleanup")
takes many (undesired) steps and wastes a lot of time,
to finally get to where one can find a button
to delete all but the most recent restore point
(then still more steps to actually do it).

How might this function be _directly_ invoked?

Thanks!

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The scanning for files to compress process is usually what takes so
long with Disk Cleanup, or it might hang there forever.

If you don't care about XP looking at all your old files to compress
(I don't) you can fix your system so it totally skips that step, but
leaves all the other Disk Cleanup options. You can also add that
feature back later.

Some people call it a bug, some a feature, etc. but you can "fix" it
and MS will tell you how:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;812248

You can also just turn off System Restore and turn it back on to
delete all but the most recent RP.

On Oct 24, 8:50*am, Jose wrote:
On Oct 24, 4:35*am, "John H Meyers" wrote:

The "standard" contorted procedure (via "Disk Cleanup")
takes many (undesired) steps and wastes a lot of time,
to finally get to where one can find a button
to delete all but the most recent restore point
(then still more steps to actually do it).

How might this function be _directly_ invoked?

Thanks!

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The scanning for files to compress process is usually what takes so
long with Disk Cleanup, or it might hang there forever.

If you don't care about XP looking at all your old files to compress
(I don't) you can fix your system so it totally skips that step, but
leaves all the other Disk Cleanup options. *You can also add that
feature back later.

Some people call it a bug, some a feature, etc. but you can "fix" it
and MS will tell you how:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;812248

You can also just turn off System Restore and turn it back on to
delete all but the most recent RP.

My bad - turning SR off/on will not keep the last RP.

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:50:22 -0500, Jose wrote:

The scanning for files to compress process is usually what takes so
long with Disk Cleanup, or it might hang there forever.

If you don't care about XP looking at all your old files to compress
(I don't) you can fix your system so it totally skips that step, but
leaves all the other Disk Cleanup options. You can also add that
feature back later.

Some people call it a bug, some a feature, etc. but you can "fix" it
and MS will tell you how:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;812248

Thanks!

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On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:29:47 -0500, PaulM wrote:

Download this script, CompressFiles here

Thank you for your script for deleting the registry key:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\VolumeCaches\Compress old files

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