extraoneya

no need to see me out, I'll close the door behind me....

thats why I said to do it from WinPE as you can't unlock those from OS itself, apps like unlocker won't help you But will WinPE. expose those retore points that all the other utilities failed to show??...that's what's been happening to me for years. As I show above, none of these apps sdisplay the points made by Win Backup.

use any fast search (not microsofts) that reads hidden data put in search field: _restore I show All System Files & display extensions in Win Explr, is that what u mean? I thought there was a prob in manually deleting them or it wasn't possible???

Just for grins..... since bphlpt said be sure....for the 1,768th time, I went through sys protection to delete ALL points in both C & D drives...to see the points STILL present, see the 1st screen cap in my above post ?!!()!&!!?>

#1-3, check (the backup points never show up in these utilites) #4, ah, a new utility, shows promise! See 1st cap for all the dead/backup generated points on this puter (more points can't be seen, as well as the few good points) See 2nd cap for the results of what Sys Restore Explr. shows (the same as all other utilites)

OK, I remember it now. But it’s not that they are locked. I have a unlocking utility & if I could get to them maybe unlocking & then deleting would work. If I knew where they were & are accessible, could do that. What I think is happening is this; Those old restore points were made automatically at the time I made the system images. Those restore points don’t want to disappear unless they’re removed by going though Win Backup & they find their old linkage w/ those backups that made them. I remember that there is a box that asks you if you want to delete or overwrite a particular dated backup. However, I didn’t delete those backups from the backup program, but rather through Windows Explorer or just trashed the USB drives they were on. Yup...been there & done ALL the published solutions, shut down Sys Restore, decreased the size, used disk cleanup, used other utilities...etc.....etc... See above for why I think they don't want to leave the comforts of where ever they call home. I actually have this problem on 2 separate computers, both running win7 Pro x64. I haven't seen any reference to anyone else having the Identical issue.

thanks for the reply, but I don't want to install another OS Did that several times in several ways, w/o getting rid of the backup ones.

Hi Have had this problem for years. 5 of my 7 restore points are from sys images that I no longer have (3 yrs old). These do not delete using Win system tools or CC Cleaner. How do I remove these worthless restore points from taking up room in my sys restore settings cache? See attached. TIA