System restore is a prominent feature in Windows that helps you to recover data if a sytem crash occurs. It is very crucial to turn this feature on, but it absorbs a lot of disk space. The amount of disk space used by the system restore feature can be limited by executing some commands in the command prompt. The following are the steps to do so.
- Take the ‘Search’ box from ‘Start’ and type ‘cmd’ in it.
- Type the command ‘vssadmin list shadowstorage’ and press the [Enter] key. This enables you to view the amount of disk space used by the system restore feature.
- Type the command ‘vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /Maxsize=512MB’ and press the [Enter] key. Here C: is the drive name whereas 512MB is the storage size. This enables you to change the amount of space the system restore will use.