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 Jun 28 2006, 03:02 PM
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 Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 398 Joined: 10-April 06 From: Nottingham England Home to the Hood of Robin Member No.: 63,547  |
Everyday it creates about 2 restore points and this is obviously not needed. Once a week maybe, but 14 a week is just overdoing it. Any tips would be great! Thanks 
-------------------- ....And on the 8th day God said, "When my children are intelligent, and create the Computer, for my sake may they never screw around with the registry or subscribe to AOL"
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Jul 4 2006, 06:50 AM
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 Bleepin' Janitor Group: Global Moderator Posts: 13,529 Joined: 9-July 05 From: Virginia, USA Member No.: 26,513 |
I have read that this is a known problem. At this point the issue can only be overcome by changing/editing the registry which I don't recommend to do. Remember this is a beta product and these bugs should be worked out eventually.
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 Jul 4 2006, 07:32 AM
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 Just enough info to be armed & dangerous... Group: Members Posts: 2,020 Joined: 18-March 06 From: St Kilda, Dunedin. South Island. NZ Member No.: 59,805 |
Hi graveangel
Start/All programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Cleanup/More Options - at the bottom of this page there is an option to delete all but the most recent Restore Point. Just make sure your system is ticking sweetly before you use this option. I feel that 10 too many is better that 1 not enough, but that's just me. Cheers -------------------- |
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Jul 4 2006, 07:40 AM
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Bleepin' Janitor Group: Global Moderator Posts: 13,529 Joined: 9-July 05 From: Virginia, USA Member No.: 26,513 |
Disk Cleanup will work but it will also delete any manual restore points that may have saved. IMO its not worth the risk of losing all restore points just to eliminate the ones created by Defender.
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Jul 4 2006, 11:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 398 Joined: 10-April 06 From: Nottingham England Home to the Hood of Robin Member No.: 63,547 |
Cheers for the reply both of you. Like you said quietman, it is in beta stage so i do expect this to be resolved upon final release, for now, like you both quoted, i would sooner have one too many restore points than one too few.
Thanks Graveangel 
This post has been edited by graveangel: Jul 4 2006, 11:07 AM -------------------- ....And on the 8th day God said, "When my children are intelligent, and create the Computer, for my sake may they never screw around with the registry or subscribe to AOL"
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Jul 9 2006, 05:12 PM
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It appears that on some machines Windows Defender will make multiple restore points thereby purging all previous system restore points. Here is an explanation and work around.
QUOTE Windows XP
I recently installed Windows Defender Beta 2. For some reason, "Windows Defender" is filling up my System Restore utility with Windows Defender Checkpoints. I used to be able to restore back at least two months, now I can only go back 6 or 7 days. It puts in 9 to 14 checkpoints per day. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it, but that didn't help. Is this normal? -------------------- PW
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Jul 16 2006, 10:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: 16-July 06 Member No.: 76,559 |
I noticed that I get 4 a day. But I still have a weeks worth of restore points. nd I create one everytime I install or clean the registry. So I found some great info my first time on this site. Thanks guys.
I shall do the regedit tomorrow. But I would like for windows defender to make at least one restore point a day. I believe the reason it does more than one is it runs more than once a day. Night all and again thanks. 
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Jul 25 2006, 08:48 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 5-April 06 From: Hungary Member No.: 62,812 |
QUOTE(mlurp @ Jul 17 2006, 05:04 AM)  I noticed that I get 4 a day. But I still have a weeks worth of restore points. nd I create one everytime I install or clean the registry. So I found some great info my first time on this site. Thanks guys. I shall do the regedit tomorrow. But I would like for windows defender to make at least one restore point a day. I believe the reason it does more than one is it runs more than once a day. Night all and again thanks. SOLUTION: Simply setting Defender to notify me > > about changes made by allowed software in addition to my previous choice > > to > > notify about not yet classified software, has reduced the number of these > > Defender checkpoints to a maximum of one per day. That's down from as > > many > > as five per day, although I do get an occasional balloon message on > > startup. I only have three days of experience running this way though. > > Seems like a far better choice than turning off RTP, if these results > > hold. Read the thread! http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsg...67f7b12&p=1 |
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Jul 25 2006, 08:49 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 5-April 06 From: Hungary Member No.: 62,812 |
Seems that ticking the abovementioned box ("Changes made to Your computer by
software that is allowed to run" ) dismissed the habit of creating either so called "checkpoints" or any kind of System Restore Points. Mine hasn't done ANY in 2 days! In the meantime I ran two regular deep scans and one quick scan (scheduled). So it works the way it should always meant to work. I don't dig deep though: don't know if this is a "heurestic", coincidental solution or the new engine's designed to forget this abundant creation of SR-points. Anyway, thank U all for the good advice - I've already left Ewido behind, and start using WDef again. |
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