About this tag
The volume shadow copy tag on WindowsForum.com covers the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) in Windows, focusing on how it manages restore points and recovery snapshots. Discussions highlight practical administration tasks, such as using commands to adjust the storage ceiling for VSS, which can free significant disk space on nearly full drives by deleting older shadow copies. Importantly, these actions do not affect personal files, installed applications, or downloads, as only recovery snapshots are discarded. The tag is relevant for Windows users and administrators seeking to manage disk space efficiently while understanding the implications of VSS cleanup on system restore capabilities.
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    Windows VSS Cleanup Frees Space by Deleting Restore Points

    MakeUseOf’s report that a single Windows command recovered about 11 GB on a nearly full C: drive is technically sound, but its headline leaves out the important part: the space was reclaimed by discarding recovery snapshots. No personal documents, photos, installed applications, or...