I had an issue where I was unable to access my System Volume Information folder and after googling it I ended up on this site. The answer here was something to the effect of sharing the folder which was and is a dead end. After figuring out how to access the folder I decided to answer the question, so I registered and found out that the post was too old and had effectively been closed. So, I am going to post this new thread in the hopes of assisting anybody else who is confronted with this issue.

First step is to un-hide protected operating system files via the Folder Options View tab. You have to have admin rights to enable the next step. R/Click the System Volume Information folder and go to the Security tab. If this tab does not appear it will be necessary to disable (if it hasn't been already) simple file sharing which is also found in the Folder Options View tab. From the Security tab click Add then Advanced then Find Now. This will produce a list of users for your computer/domain. Find the user you're using to log into the computer with, highlight it and then click OK and then click OK again. You should be back at the Security Tab with your user listed in the "Group or user names" box. Highlight this name and click Full Control in the "Permissions for" area. Click apply and OK and voila. Now you can access the folder and do whatever. I recommend removing the user from the Security tab of this folder after you've done your clean-up because it can always be added again if needed in the future. Hope this helps.

Curlyben

Certainly interesting, but, as I mentioned in the previous thread, why do you feel the need to manually edit the restore points.

Removal of restore points can be accomplished by using the inbuilt Clean up function within windows.

Also if you feel your system is storing to many restore points then just reduce the space allocated to them in system properties.

If more infor is needed, please feel free to ask.