Hi Jeff,

right click My Computer and System Restore Tab. There you can set how much
space you would like to dedicate to system restore or turn it off...

Here you can also find useful article on subject of System Restore and Hard
Disk Space Usage...
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;300044[/url]

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Mike
MCSA 2K, MCSE 2K, MCT, ...

"jeff maultby" <my_surname+@lineone.net> wrote in message
news:053f01c34f5f$2357a620$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi All
> Win XP Pro SP1
> System Volume Information folder is > 2Gb in size. Am
> compressing it to recover some space. Any idea how to
> reduce its size? Is it safe to delete its contents? Is
> there some setting which windows uses as a maximum size
> for this folder?
>
> Many thanks in anticipation
>
> Jeff