

Select the C drive and click on the “OK” button. This action will re-open the cleanup wizard. Since the restore points are system files, you cannot see them unless you choose to clean up the system files. Select “Primary (C:)” from the drop-down menu and click on the “OK” button.Ĭlick on the “Clean up system files” button. To delete a specific restore point, type the following command and press Enter.The above action will open the Disk Cleanup utility. Keep an eye on the creation date and shadow copy ID for each system restore point. Execute the following command to list all system restore points created for all drives on your computer. Method 3: Delete Individual System Restore Point via Command Line When the Disk Cleanup confirmation box opens, click on Delete and Windows 10 will delete all your restore points while keeping the most recent one. Go to the the More Options tab, click on the Clean up button under the “System Restore and Shadow Copies” section. Under the General tab, click on Disk Cleanup. Right-click on a local drive and then select Properties from the context menu. Method 2: Delete All But the Most Recent Restore Point via Disk Cleanup When the warning dialog pops up, click Continue to confirm. Now select a drive you want to delete all old restore points from, and click on Configure.Ĭlick on the Delete button. This will open the System Protection page in the System Properties window. Type SystemPropertiesProtection and press Enter. Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command. Method 1: Delete All System Restore Points in System Protection In this tutorial we’ll show you 3 ways to delete one or more system restore points to save disk space in Windows 10. Restore points could take up a lot of disk space, so if your PC is running well, there’s not much sense in keeping many old restore points. By default, Windows 10 will automatically create a restore point when you install a device driver or Windows update, so you can later reverse system changes if Windows 10 becomes unstable.
