Vista question. Deleting old backup files.

[BarbaRosa]

My laptop with Vista Home Premium has been running scheduled backups ever since I got it. I didn't think much about it until now, and I find my data disk (D) is full to the max. Turns out Vista does not overwrite backups, it just keeps piling them on, and I now have a 60Gb. drive I can't use.

I have tried this:

1. Click on the Start Button and key in disk cleanup and hit Enter.
2. Select Files from all users on this computer.
3. Select the drive you want to clean.
4. On the More Options tab, click on Clean Up under System Restore and Shadow Copies.
5. Hit Delete on the confirmation screen.

Nothing...

I have been cruising the internets and haven't found anything real useful as of yet.

Anyone know how to get rid of all those old backup files?:shrug:

Thanks

BR

[Jersey Devil]

1. What you did is the right procedure

It seems however after clicking to clean up under system restore you have to wait a bit for another confirmation screen to pop up.

If you can't get it to work try turning off system restore. When you do that it automatically cleans everything out. Then turn it back on again. (Right click on my computer).