{"id":12913,"date":"2018-09-26T08:10:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=12913"},"modified":"2018-09-26T08:13:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:13:26","slug":"delete-one-or-more-system-restore-points-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/delete-one-or-more-system-restore-points-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete One or More System Restore Points in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Windows 10 will automatically create a restore point when you install a device driver or Windows update, so you can later reverse system changes if Windows 10 becomes unstable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/system-restore.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"442\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12931\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Restore points could take up a lot of disk space, so if your PC is running well, there&#8217;s not much sense in keeping many old restore points. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll show you 3 ways to delete one or more system restore points to save disk space in Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Delete All System Restore Points in System Protection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use the <strong>Windows<\/strong> key + <strong>R<\/strong> keyboard shortcut to open the Run command. Type <strong>SystemPropertiesProtection<\/strong> and press Enter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/SystemPropertiesProtection.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12922\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This will open the <strong>System Protection<\/strong> page in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/easy-ways-to-open-system-properties-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">System Properties<\/a> window. Now select a drive you want to delete all old restore points from, and click on <strong>Configure<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/configure-system-restore.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"435\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12923\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on the <strong>Delete<\/strong> button. When the warning dialog pops up, click <strong>Continue<\/strong> to confirm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delete-all-restore-points.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12924\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Delete All But the Most Recent Restore Point via Disk Cleanup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Right-click on a local drive and then select <strong>Properties<\/strong> from the context menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/disk-properties.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"489\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7721\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under the General tab, click on <strong>Disk Cleanup<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/disk-cleanup.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12925\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next, click on <strong>Clean up system files<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/clean-up-system-files.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"412\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12926\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go to the the <strong>More Options<\/strong> tab, click on the <strong>Clean up<\/strong> button under the &#8220;System Restore and Shadow Copies&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/remove-all-but-the-recent-restore-point.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"421\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12927\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the Disk Cleanup confirmation box opens, click on <strong>Delete<\/strong> and Windows 10 will delete all your restore points while keeping the most recent one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delete-all-but-the-recent-restore-point.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"190\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12928\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 3: Delete Individual System Restore Point via Command Line<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-command-prompt-in-windows-10\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open the Administrative Command Prompt<\/a>. Execute the following command to list all system restore points created for all drives on your computer. Keep an eye on the creation date and shadow copy ID for each system restore point.<br \/>\n<code>vssadmin list shadows<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/list-restore-points-with-cmd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12929\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To delete a specific restore point, type the following command and press Enter.<br \/>\n<code>vssadmin delete shadows \/Shadow={shadow copy ID}<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/delete-individual-system-restore-point.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12930\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to delete all restore points for all your drives, just run this command instead:<br \/>\n<code>vssadmin delete shadows \/all<\/code><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Windows 10 will automatically create a restore point when you install a device driver or Windows update, so you can later reverse system changes if Windows 10 becomes unstable. Restore points could take up a lot of disk space, so if your PC is running well, there&#8217;s not much sense in keeping many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[3983,3981,3980,3984,3982],"class_list":["post-12913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-delete-all-but-the-most-recent-restore-point","tag-delete-individual-restore-point-windows-10","tag-delete-restore-points-windows-10","tag-delete-system-restore-points-command-line","tag-view-restore-points-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12913"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12935,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913\/revisions\/12935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}