How To Change System Restore Location

Nov 27, 2012

I can't seem to figure out WHERE W8 stores the System Restore Points that I create so I created a 500GB Partition on an External HDD that I would like to use to save System Restore files and my question is WHERE in W8 can I CHANGE the location for System Restore?

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I always uncheck all the extra stuff like toolbars apps like to get you to download. The last app that did this was the weather channel app.

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