Software: System Restore - Vista

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Hi,
I'm fairly knowledgeable when it comes to computers but something is puzzling me:

I uninstalled a few programs, one at a time, in the knowledge that I had system restore as a backup just in case anything went wrong. I rebooted after each uninstall but after one I found the laptop wouldn't restart. I did however managed to fix it, reboot and log in, but upon checking my system restore I found that all of my previous restore points had disappeared which is quite frustrating because had I needed to use one, I clearly wouldn't have been able to.

Does anyone know what might have caused them to clear on reboot? System Restore was enabled, so they've not cleared due to it being turned off. Maybe they were corrupt? Maybe there is a setting on a particular piece of software which cleared them? Maybe there's a Windows Vista setting I need the change?

Any ideas appreciated.
Thank you.
Sonia
 
System Restore only does a restore point for windows updates or some programs.

You should allways make a restore point your self if you need to, you can check how much space is being used for system restore by going to Start>Control Panel(or right click computer)>System>System Protection>Configer while C: is selected>check "restore system settings and previous versions of files" and set disk space usage to a low amount around 3%(depends on size of HDD).

See if the system restore service is enabled.
Make sure you have enough disk space.
Look in the event log for details if system restore is failing which will be listed under System.
 
Thanks for your reply but System Restore was enabled as I said above. I was not expecting a restore point to be created prior to the uninstallation. I'm asking what may have caused my already created saved points - created prior to the uninstallations - to dissapear. Disc space is not an issue, I used the following to set the usage to 5GB:
Code: 
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=C: /for=C: /maxsize=5GB

Event log says nothing about System Restore.
 
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System restore will delete old restore points automaticly, if new ones are made old ones may be deleted.
 

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