Windows Home XP System Restore
 

So, I was reading this article about useful computer tips and it happened to mention that if I wanted to save same space on my harddrive I could reduce the amount of space the System Restore application takes up. It said to open the application and use the slider bar and place it on 5% as that should be sufficient amount of space. Mine was set to maximum. What I noticed when I did this, and the crux of my question, is that none of the dates on the calender were highlighted or in bold. System Restore, as far I could tell, had not been turned off. If I had to restore my system, if something had happened, I would be SOL. How do I fix this? How do I get the dates on the calendar to highlight, just in cause? Thanks for your help. It would be much appreciated.

I would assume that by reducing the allocated size for your system recovery, these recovery points have been removed to save space.


Make a new system recovery point.


edit:

Setting it to 200 mb will usually keep you having a few weeks of system restore points.

The recovery points weren't there to begin with. I haven't touched my slider bar yet. It is still set to maximum. That's why I was worried if something happened I wouldn't have anything to restore my machine back to. Thanks though.