John wrote:

> Windows System restore will save as many restore points as you need,


Not quite. There are two limits:

1. You can't use more than 12% of the drive for Restore Points.

2. You can't keep Restore Points more than 90 days.




> by default a restore point is made when installng new software or
> adding hardware,


Restore Points are made daily.Some soiftware installations may create
Restore Points, but mot all do.

KJ, what you want to do is generally infeasible. Restore Points more than a
couple of weeks old are usually useless, because too many things have
changed on the system and the Restore Points get out of synch with them.



> the only limit is how much hard disk space you
> allocate to system restore.
>
> If you need to go down the road of a 3rd party software Acronis
> Trueimage is a very good backup software


Don't mix up the Windows System Restore feature with backup. They are two
very different things. For one thing, System Restore does nothing to back up
your data, normally the most important thing you need to back up.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> "KJ" <kj@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>> Anyone know of a program that will allow me to make various system
>> restore points, and keep them until I choose to delete them? If I
>> want to restore, I want to be able to choose from which among them I
>> wish to restore to, and which to delete.
>>
>> I tried this today with XP's built-in restore system. I made 2 or 3
>> system restore points throughout the morning, but later when I went
>> to see if they were there, XP had erased them all to keep the last
>> one it made by default when I had to reboot after installing the
>> trial software I was trying. Now it so happens I'm going to keep
>> that software and I don't want to restore, but I want to know in
>> the future I can restore if I need to. (I have tens of GBs of space,
>> and restore settings are set to allow a gig of restore space, so it
>> did not erase the previous points b/c of space.)
>>
>> I heard FirstDefense, RestoreIt are pretty good. (GoBack makes
>> incremental stacks for restore points, which I don't want. I want
>> snapshots.) Anyone know of any others? I'd like something I can
>> download to try. I think the above need to be purchased outright.
>>
>> Thanks and Happy New Year,
>> KJ