How to make Vista NOT delete shadow copies

[kartel]

Vista keeps deleting my restore points, and its p***ing me off.

Can someone please tell me how to fix this?

[Eck]

Do you dual-boot with Windows XP? If you do then Windows XP will delete what it considers to be invalid restore points every time you boot up to it. All Vista restore points are considered invalid by XP.

A way around that is to not use the Microsoft dual-boot method and instead install both Windows versions to primary partitions and hide the other one and make the one you're booting to active each time you bootup. A 3rd party boot manager, using a Partition Magic floppy disk to boot your machine or manually copying PQBoot to a folder on each operating system and using that to start another operating system, or a Linux install using Grub as the boot loader can do that for you.

If you're not dual-booting then there's another problem I'm not familiar with. Vista wouldn't do that unless it ran out of space on your entire Vista partition for restore points.

[bonestonne]

windows sets its own restore points every now and then, so if yours get deleted, its because windows has taken a more recent one...you could store them on a different partition, or on another drive.