How to remove a system restore point in Windows 10 — Tridev Computer

System protection (if enabled) is a feature that allows you to perform a system restore, bringing your PC back to an earlier point in time, called a system restore point. This can be helpful if your PC is not working well and you recently installed an app, driver or update.

When you get a major update or new feature for Windows 10, all restore points are automatically removed during the update because old restore points are incompatible with the new Windows Update.

This guide will show you how to remove all or specific system restore points for drives in Windows 10.

Note:

• You must be logged in as admin to be able to delete a system restore point.
• The restore point is stored in a protected OS System Volume Information folder and is hidden in the root directory of each drive where System protection has been enabled.

Delete all system restore points for a drive in the System Protection Settings

4. Open Control Panel (icons view) , click the icon , click the Configure System Restore link and go to step 6 below.

Click the Configure System Restore link

7. Under , select a drive (eg C 🙂 that you want to remove all restore points from and click the Protection Settings Configure button

Erase all system restore points except the most recent in Disk Cleanup

: You must be logged in as admin to use this option.

C) If you have multiple drives or partitions on your PC, select the drive or the drive letter you want to clean and press , and then go back.

Delete all or specific system restore points in the Command Prompt

1. Open Command Prompt as administrator .

2. Copy and paste the command vssadmin list shadowsinto Command Prompt with admin rights and click Enter.

3 Do step 4 (to delete everything), step 5 (all on the drive), step 6 (oldest on the drive), or step 7 (shadow copy ID) below, depending on how you want to delete the restore points. .

4. To delete all restore points on all drives, copy and paste the command below that you want to use into the Command Prompt, press Enter and go to step 8 below.

(Prompt to select Y / N to confirm before deleting)

vssadmin delete shadows /all

(Delete without prompt)

vssadmin delete shadows /all /quiet

5. To remove all restore points on a particular drive, enter the command below you want to use in the Command Prompt, press Enter and go to step 8 below.

(Prompt to select Y / N to confirm before deleting)

vssadmin delete shadows /For=(drive letter): /all

(Delete without prompt)

vssadmin delete shadows /For=(drive letter): /all /quiet

For example:

vssadmin delete shadows /For=C: /all
vssadmin delete shadows /For=C: /all /quiet

6. To remove the oldest restore point on a particular drive, enter the command below you want to use into the Command Prompt, press Enter and go to step 8 below.

(Prompt to select Y / N to confirm before deleting)

vssadmin delete shadows /For=(drive letter): /oldest

(Delete without prompt)

vssadmin delete shadows /For=(drive letter): /oldest /quiet

Replace (drive letter) in the above commands with the drive letter you want.

7. To delete a specific restore point using Shadow Copy ID, Enter the command below into the Command Prompt, press Enter and go to step 8 below.

vssadmin delete shadows /Shadow={Shadow Copy ID}

For example:

vssadmin delete shadows /Shadow={3e351030-9ebd-428c-9ff3-86dca40a7f96}

8. When done, you can close the Command Prompt if you want.

Delete individual system restore points in CCleaner

This option will let you remove all restore points, except the most recent.

1. If you haven’t already, download and install the free CCleaner program .

You can press and hold the key CTRL, and click restore points so you can select more than one random point.

6. When done, you can close CCleaner if you want.

Remove System Image Restore Point from System Restore in Windows 10

1. Boot into Advanced Startup Options from (recommended) from Start> Settings> Update & Security> Recovery> Advance Startup . Alternatively, boot into Advanced Startup from a recovery drive or from a USB or Windows 10 installation DVD.

Note:

When you boot into Advanced Startup from , the Windows system drive should have the same drive letter as it did in Windows, usually

When booting from a recovery drive or installation media, it may appear with a different character.

3. To check the drive letter that the Windows system is using, enter the command , then at the Diskpart prompt, type and then . You will now see a list of all drives.

5. Use the CD command (change directory) to navigate to the WindowsImageBackup directory

CD System Volume Information\WindowsImageBackup

6. Use the DIR command to check if you are in the correct directory, then use the DEL command:

DEL Catalog\*.*
DEL SPPMetadataCache\*.*

… to delete the contents of each folder and SPPMetadataCache.

7. Now you have deleted Metadata for all System Image Restore Points. Close the Command Prompt window (or type EXIT) to restart your PC and get back to Windows.

8. All System Image Restore Points belonging to the Backup category will now be deleted from System Restore.

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