Hi George > Did you know that the System Volume folder is where your system's > Restore Points are stored? I apologize for not realizing this before > now. The simplest way to handle this would have been to turn off System > Restore temporarily, turn it back on, and then create a new Restore > Point of your freshly cleaned system. You mean the System Volume Information folder, whereas John was talking about a folder called simply "system" located in d:\system. On the other hand, i just now noticed that John wrote in the subject of the thread a different name, "system volume folder" I also just remembered that the folder called "system" is in the Windows folder and not the root folder in XP (which i seem to remember John is using though he didn't say). Just what folder are you talking about, John? -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.