text: is there a way to delete restore points in windows xp?   blah to remove old restore points is easy, and using the registry wont remove the physical restore points of old...  here is how you do it...  it should look something like this http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/2213/whattodoni1.jpg  go into my computer, right click the c: drive, select properties, click the disk cleanup button...(which im sure you know of, but there is another feature in it most people dont know of) once the disk cleanup window is finished scanning it will open up another window that says disk cleanup for c:...  on the tabs at the top of this window, click the tab that says more options...  then select the bottom button which says system restore, you can free up more disk space etc... cleanup...  once you click it, wait a moment as your pc may freeze with the deletion of old restore points. this is completely harmless and usually increases the speed of your computer a little, as well as the disk space...  and omfg dick turning off sys restore below, does not remove old restore points, holy cow, it simply turns it off, you could have 4 gigs of restore points from 6 months, the way to remove them is what i described above...  he didnt say anything about turning the darn thing off, he said delete lmao...