Windows Vista is a resource hog, yes it consumes a lot of memory to run and occupies a lot of disk space to install. By default Vista allocates 15% of your total disk space for System Restore. Sounds like very small, but if you have let us say 1TB of disk space, that is a total of additional 150GB that the system uses!
To reclaim this wasted disk space, we need to get our hands a little dirty and will use the command prompt.
> Click on the Windows Start Button
> Click on All programs then Accessories
> On the Accessories menu Right Click on the Command Prompt option
> From the drop Down menu that appears, choose Run as Administrator
> When the Command Prompt window opens type: “vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=X: /For=X: /Maxsize=XX.XGB” – without the quotes and Press Enter
NOTE: X: = Drive Letter of Target Drive, e.g.; C:
NOTE: XX.X = the maximum size in GB’s or MB’s
> If all is done correctly you should see a message saying “Successfully resized the shadow copy storage association”
This is how it should look for drive C:, remember there are Spaces between each command group:
“vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=C: /for=C: /maxsize=5GB”
> You can restart your computer and rest assured that Vista will only use the disk space that you have allocated for System Restore.
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