Windows – How to delete selected System Restore Point in Windows

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I have occupied 25 gb space of my C: drive for system restore points. Over time, the system automatically created 5 restore points while deleting previous restore points. I want to keep the very 1st restore point and delete the other 4, but the problem is that Windows does not give users the option to remove individual restore points. It only gives the option to delete all the created restore points. Is there any way` to delete specific restore point?

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You can use newer version of Ccleaner. In this you can delete individual restore points.
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Windows – How to Archive a Restore Point Permanently

Restore points are saved as Volume Shadow Copies. They can be mounted and backed up. Start a command shell with admin rights. Then typing

vssadmin list shadows

will give a list of available shadow copies. Pleas note that the list will be empty if the system is not set up to make restore points.

Pick the one you want and mount like so:

mklink /d <mount point> <shadow copy volume>

Actual example:

mklink /d c:\shadow_copy1 \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1\

Copy any files, or the whole shadow copy. Remove when finished:

rd c:\shadow_copy1

[EDIT] It seems you can create disk images from Volume Shadow Copies, though I haven't tried this yet: http://windowsir.blogspot.com/2009/11/working-with-volume-shadow-copies.html

Windows – How to Prevent System Restore Point During Install

If you scroll down through this thread, there's a number of things you could try for repairing the Volume Shadow Copy Service if you wanted to give that a go.

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