Hi Keenart,

I had the same problem with Vista - my drive started filling up for no apparent reason. I found this information at www.vista4beginners.com :

"System Restore is a very useful feature of Windows Vista but it has one main drawback. After running for a few weeks, it can use a lot of your hard disk space. With the default settings turned on, System Restore might use up to 15 percent of the space on each disk. For example, if you have a 250GB hard disk drive, System Restore might end up using 37,5GB of it."

Scary stuff!!! I followed the advice from these guys to limit the system restore to 1GB and my hard drive stopped expanding exponentially!

Now, I only ever ONCE did a system restore with Vista and I swapped one set of problems for another. I ended up doing a clean install anyway. So, this was good advice for ME, because I am already dubious about the value of System Restore. 

The article is called :"Change the amount of space used by System Restore" and might be worth reading. The change requires using the Command Prompt, so if you are comfortable with that, it is not difficult.

As I said, this is fine for me - I am not sure what happens if I want to do a system restore, but as I said, I prefer to clean install anyway. 

See what you think. 

Rocco.