And, no, the amount of free space in the recovery partition will not affect your computer'sperformance. According to Hewlett-Packard, whichowns the Compaq line, old restore points will beautomatically deleted and replaced by new restore points ifthe drive is out of space.

Regarding this, is it safe to delete system restore points?Ī: Not to worry. To delete all old restore points, search for“Disk Cleanup” in the Start menu and openit. However, thisoption is buried deep and you may not find it unless you know whereto look.

Windows provides an option to quickly delete all but recent restore points.