When you are setting up your a blog - whether it be your first or another one to add to your collection, one of the main factors that you will end up considering is the blog application which you are going to install within your web space to allow you to write the blog articles that you want others to be able to openly view and comment on if they wish; there are many smaller factors which can affect your decision in relation to the blog application which you choose to base either your blog or website - and in some cases, both - this article should help you in the decision making process since the main factors affecting your decision will be discussed in depth. Blogs are in most cases special websites where people write articles or posts on any subject, although some blogs are dedicated to specific subjects which means that the posts which they contain are normally much more specialized than those which are contained on other blogs which are located on the internet; blogs also let visitors and readers comment on the articles in most cases, this means that a reader can easily suggest an improvement for the article or post a comment arguing a point which had been made by the author or ‘blogger’ who wrote the post for their blog or for the blog that they work for, or post their articles on. You can also use blog software to build your website on, since a blog application will allow you to manage the content of your website with ease on the fly from any internet computer or location - this means that you can use the blog application which you choose to use in the same way as you would use a CMS system, you are also able to add add-ons to your blog application of choice in most cases which means that you can easily extend its features and usability; this also means that you can use the blog application which you choose to use to create a dynamic website to which you can allow your visitors to have more interactivity with - this means features such as the ability to comment on the individual pages with which you have populated your website with, this in turn means that your visitors can see each others comments and respond to each other with their own opinions without the need for a forum - which can help create a sense of community within your website. Other factors which can affect your choice of blog software can include the price of it if you choose to go with a commercial application, the required environment to ensure that the chosen application is able to function without any ill effects - if you are new to this area of web hosting/web design then you should also consider the type and amount of support which is available for your chosen application - this is because if you need help installing the application, then you might not be able to get the necessary helpful support if you choose to go with a lesser known application, but if you go with a better known application then you should be able to receive the support that you need to ensure that you are able to get your new blog started up successfully.

Administration Features

The first and main feature that you should consider when choosing a blog application to use is how far the administration settings in the administration panel of the application concerned stretch; these features include the WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) editor as well as other settings which let you configure how the application which your blog is based on manages certain things as well as how advanced other administration features of the application which you have chosen to use are. The WYSIWYG editor which should be supplied with your chosen blog application is what you use to write posts and articles which you will then post onto your blog for your visitors and readers to read - and if you have the facility enabled, your visitors and readers should be able to comment on your content; the WYSIWYG editor is an important administration feature of your chosen application since the features between the different editors can differ, and the more features that are available within a WYSIWYG editor the more content and wider range of content that you can add to your posts - for example some WYSIWYG editors allow you to add flash content and images to your posts which means that you can create multimedia posts and articles alongside your regular text based articles, this itself can help distinguish your blog or website amongst others which might be using the same application or design. Other administration features of any basic blog application should allow you to manage and install add-ons to your application, which means that with the use of add-ons you can easily expand the capabilities of your chosen application both in terms of the general front end which your users and visitors will see as well as the administration area which you will use to manage your blog as well as where you will be able to create new posts and articles from; with the use of add-ons you can also make your blog much more interactive and usable for the visitors and readers that you receive to your blog - this means that your existing visitors and readers are more likely to refer others to your website which in turn means that your visitor numbers will easily rise as time goes on. Some blogs contain administration features that can determine how you post your posts or articles that will then be displayed on the front page of your blog for your visitors and readers to view; for example, in most cases you can configure your chosen blog application to pull emails from a certain email account and them automatically post them to the blog as if they were articles - this means that if you’re not at a computer to write you’re article, you can easily use a portable device with email capabilities such as a mobile phone to email through what you want to post, it will then be automatically processed by your blog application and posted into your blog so that your visitors and readers can see it - this is perfect for you if you have a job such as a journalist who need to keep their blog or website updated regularly but doesn’t have constant internet access but always has some sort of mobile device with them.

Add-Ons

Add-ons can help extend the default capabilities, as well as give the ability to create new abilities for the blog application which you choose to use for either your blog or your website; this means that you should always make sure that the blog application which you choose to use has the ability to accept third party add-ons, and that it has a good repository of third party add-ons since you might want to take advantage of this feature, and because of this you want to make sure that there is a good selection of add-ons for you to choose from. The fact that add-ons are able to expand the capabilities, and in turn the possibilities of what you could use your install of your chosen blog application mean that you can use your install for a mass of activities, which means that you are able to create a highly interactive environment for your readers, or if you choose to use you chosen blog application as a CMS system, website for your visitors so that they are able to search and view content much more easily; this means that you might be able to increase the number of visitors which you receive to your website. However, add-ons don’t have to be about increasing the interactivity that readers or visitors can have with your blog or website, nor do they have to be about making the administration area much better for you as the webmaster, or increasing the look of your blog or website in general, as most people tend to think they are; for example, in most cases you are able to get add-ons for blog applications which are known as ‘SEO add-ons’ - these have the power to help increase your search engine ranking, and in turn increasing your visitor count since more people will be able to find your website through search engine keyword searches.

Commercial or Open Source

One main factor that can affect your choice of blog software is the fact of whether the pieces of software that you have been looking at are open source or commercial; commercial piece of blog software are ones which will cost you to have the ability to use them since you will have to buy a license in order for you to be allowed to use them, open source pieces of blog software on the other hand are completely free meaning that you can even download the source code for them so that you can construct your own add-ons based around their infrastructure so that the piece of blog software which you have chosen to use functions in the way that you want it to - this wouldn’t be possible with commercial blog applications since in most cases, you aren’t given access to their source code. In terms of support, you are normally given phone support with commercial applications, since you have paid them money and in turn will provide you with one to one professional support - in most cases this will only last a year meaning that you will have to renew your cover for it when you’re six months is up; there is no official support for open source blog applications since you are not paying anyone for the right to use it, meaning that there isn’t the money there to pay people to provide telephone support for the piece of blog software concerned - however, there are normally dedicated blogs which are normally able to provide you with a good level of support if you are new to the world of blog software, and have come across some sort of problem - whether it be not being able to install the application correctly or forgetting the administrator account’s password and not being able to reset by yourself for whatever reason. In most cases you will find that commercial pieces of blog software are much more secure than their open source counterparts - this is because you are paying for a license which means that there are paid developers who are there developing the product day in and day out, which means that if a security flaw is found in the application then it can be rectified by the paid developers more or less immediately; open source pieces of blog software on the other hand are usually much less secure than their commercial counterparts, this is because there is nothing to pay for a team of developers to develop the application day in and day out, which goes along with the idea that these applications are normally developed by a few developers within their spare time - this means that is a security flaw is found within a piece of open source blog software, then it isn’t going to be rectified immediately since the developers don’t have the time to stop their paid job to correct the problem concerned.

cPanel provides you with many different features based around domains which you can use to expand the capabilities of your cPanel shared website hosting account in the form of being able to host more websites as well as features that you can use to expand the corporate identity of your website and products that you might market on it. The domain that you use for your website is the main identity that is given to it, and it is of the utmost importance that the domain which you use for your website relates both to the content that the site contains as well as the main subject of the website; this is because search engines normally relate the title of a domain name to the content that it contains, as well in reference to the main subject of the website - domains and content which relate more to each other normally receive a higher page ranking when search engines come down to scoring the pages of websites once they have been indexed. Your domain is also the most important factor of your website since it is what people will type in to the address bar of their browser when they want to visit your website, or what they will see when they visit your website through the means of a search from an ordinary search engine. The fact that you can have any domain you want is brilliant for both marketing and general branding; this is because you can create a brandable identity which you can then create a business around, or purchase domains entitled for special offers which you might be offering since this would ensure that if you have created a separate mini site for such offers, people are able to access them without having to type in any long confusing addresses and will only have to enter a standard domain name address. If you are unable to afford a new domain then you can use certain features within cPanel to gives the affect of a separate domain to the user or visitor without having to purchase a new domain; you can use this type of feature to aid with corporate branding when creating a new sub or mini-site for a new product or area of your website which might still be in the development stages. Other domains features within cPanel allow you to just attach your domains to your hosting account, but not necessarily use them - this is perfect for you if you are just planning to buy domains to sell them on at a later date at a higher cost.

The domain features within cPanel allow you to use it to help build your business portfolio if you are in a business such as the selling of high quality domains which people might be willing to pay a high price for; you can also use the built-in features to aid you in the creation of separate ‘mini-sites’ for your business as well as to create separate corporate identities for services and products which you might be wanting to promote and sell via the means of the internet which means you won’t have to pay the high costs to have them in shops. You can also use another feature to help shorten down the length of long URLs within your website which might confuse users then they are trying to navigate or search your website for content; you can also use this feature to send users to another web page on the internet when they try to access a specific one which you have stored within your shared cPanel website hosting space. With the use of the domain features within cPanel you can ensure that you can create separate corporate identities under your main corporate identity without the need to invest extra cash into new domains every time you want to market or promote one of your new products or services on the internet under your main identity. One thing to remember with domains is that they are the most important necessity of your website; this is because they are what your visitors see or type in when they want to visit your website - apart from content, a domain defines your website as well as your brand, for example if you are creating a company website then you should always try and get the branding of the domain as close as is possible to your real company if the main domain that you wanted has already been bought for use by somebody else - however, if it has been bought then it might just have been bought for parking which means you might be able to negotiate a purchase price with the owner of it. With the use of this article you should be able to understand what sub-domains, parked domains, add-on domains and redirects are as well as what their uses are; you should then also be able to apply their uses across your website appropriately in order to help boost your website’s search engine score as well as how visitors come across products and services as well as how the different types of domains can be used for the branding and promotion of products and services which you might want to sell through your website. You will also be given the ability to expand the use of your shared cPanel website hosting account by being able to host a number of domains on your account, if possible, and how you can use this to manage all the domains which you own effectively. All this put together means that you will discover how powerful cPanel is when it comes to managing multiple domains as well as how you are able to strategically market and promote your internet based products and services with the use of domains through cPanel; this should all help you increase your overall search engine ranking/score as well as the amount of visitors and products that you sell through your website.

Sub-Domains

Subdomains are domains that you can create under your hosted domain name; they take on the form of a new name as the forename, and then the second part of the address is your main domain name. Subdomains are a good way to section your website off into different parts if you are providing many different services, or if you want to give different parts of your website their own identity without the need for directories which can easily become very messy. Search engines can also favour subdomains in some situations because they see them as separate domain names, and will rate them above directories in most situations. If you are wanting to sell different products or services under the same company name, but don’t want the websites for each product to be collectively dumped under one domain name, then you should try and utilize subdomains within your website setup where possible. Subdomains are basically address DNS records that have been automatically setup by CPanel to point back to the same server that your website is hosted on; however, you can also utilize the advance DNS settings feature if you wish to use subdomains but want to have the content that they are going to display or the service that they are going to be used for hosted on another server - this will be done via the setup of advanced address records and with the use of IP addresses of other servers through the CPanel control panel. However, most people rarely use subdomains since they are seen as ‘tacky’ by some and others prefer to just use the simple structure of directories when they are designing and building their website which they will then host within their CPanel shared website hosting account. The good thing with subdomains though, is that like directories you can choose what you want the name of the subdomain that you are setting up to be - this means that you can use subdomains for hosting absolutely any content you want. Sub-domains can aid in the marketing and promotion of products or services that you might be selling through your website, and can even help increase on your current amount of sales through your website; this is because they can aid in the creation of ‘mini-sites’ for products and services which you might sell which inturn can help promote and increase products since it allows a product or service to have its own corporate identity under your main corporate identity - it is also much easier for a visitor to type in a subdomain address rather than a very long ‘directory’ address which could consist of many forward slashes before a user actually reaches the final destination of the product or service which they want to purchase. You can also use sub-domains if you wish to segment your website off into smaller parts if you feel that it is too large to be hosted under just one domain; this again can help aid in giving the separate areas of your website their own identities since they will more or less be ‘minis’ of your main website since you have made your main website much smaller, and the subdomains will be relatively small.

Add-On Domains

Add-on domains are domains that you can attach to your main website hosting account; this feature allows you to extend the use of your hosting account since it allows you to host multiple domains, and a website for each domain if you feel that each domain does need to have its own website - if it doesn’t then you could simply create a parking page for each domain. Add-on domains can be linked back to subdomains which you have created within your shared cPanel website hosting account; this allows you to host more websites since in most cases you have an unlimited number of both add-on and sub domains, which means that you can host as many websites as you want under your hosting account with the only constraints against you being the amount of disk space that you are supplied with as well as the amount of bandwidth that your account has been assigned - in some cases you might be limited by either the number of sub of add-on domains which you can use in your website hosting account, which will mean that you are only able to host as many separate websites in your account as is stated by the amount of each. This feature of cPanel is perfect for you if you wish to make the most of your website hosting account without having to spend any extra money; this is because you can try and get the most value for money by utilizing both this and the sub-domain features to ensure that you can host as many websites on your account as is physically allowed by the specifications of the website hosting plan which you have purchased from your web host. One other thing which can affect how many domains you host in your shared cPanel website hosting account is the amount of money that you have available to spend on things such as domains; this is because the cost of domains is relatively high, and means that every time you want to buy a new domain, you have to spend money. Add-on domains can also help in providing a separate corporate identity for other products or services which you may be wanting to sell or provide through the use of the internet and your existing website; you can use the add-on domain feature to host individual domains for the products and services that you have chosen to provide - you can then specify an individual layout for each website to help provide that much needed unique corporate identity for each product or service. If you own a business such as a website design agency then you can make use of this feature to help you host all the websites that you design for clients if you don’t have the finances to pay for a higher end reseller package - however, this situation should only be used if your customers don’t require control panel access to control their website and domain name; this is because only reseller packages give you the abilities to create separate client accounts for each individual website or domain - this in turn means that with a standard shared website hosting account there is only one set of login details for all the websites which you host which means that you are the only one who can control all the details about client’s websites such as email addresses and the contents of their actual website.

Parked/Pointed Domains

The parked/pointed domain feature of cPanel allows you to point existing domains which you might own back to your existing shared cPanel website hosting account; this means that when a user or visitor enters a parked/pointed domain into their web browser, they will reach your existing website which you have already set up under the main domain which you have attached to your shared cPanel website account. Parked/pointed domains are handy for you if you are wanting to reserve one name under an array of different TLDs, they will all lead to your existing website which means that you don’t have to develop an individual website for each domain - meaning that you have to do less work; this can also mean that if you are developing a large website which is going to be used in many countries accross a range of TLDs, then you will only have to place one parking page under your main hosting account then attach all the needed domains to your account - this means that you don’t have to upload a parking page for each individual domain that you are planning to use for your finished website. Parked/pointed domains is also a feature which you can utilize if you are a domain purchaser who purchases domains purely for the reason of then selling them on at a higher price to help you make a profit on your purchases - in this case you could use the parked/pointed domains feature to attach all the domains that you own to your shared cPanel website hosting account; you can then proceed to create one holding page under the main domain for your hosting account which will be displayed on all the domains that you have hosted under your account - this can help you out since it means that you don’t have to place up a holding page for every domain which you own - which means that if you own many domains, you can save yourself a lot of time by using this relatively simple method. One thing to note is that when using or adding add-on domains to your website hosting account, you should always make sure that you point your domains to the DNS servers which you use for your shared cPanel website hosting account; this is because you will then be able to control all aspects of your domain from your shared cPanel website hosting account, and if you don’t or forget to change the DNS servers then your add-on domains might not work at all with your shared cPanel website hosting account - you can normally change your DNS servers for your domains yourself over at the registrar from which you purchased the domain, as long as you know the new DNS servers which you want your domain to point to, if you aren’t able to do it yourself then you can normally contact the support department of your registrar who should happily do it for you at no extra cost than what you have paid for the domain.

Redirects

The redirects feature of cPanel allows you to automatically redirect your website’s visitors to another part of your website when they try to access a certain file or folder which you have hosted under your shared cPanel website hosting account; the redirects section of cPanel allows you to use different method of redirecting - permanent and temporary, permanent redirections (sometimes referred to as 301 redirects) are ones which tell the visitor’s browser to update any bookmarked URLs which link to the file or directory on the website which is trying to be accessed and is in turn telling the browser that it is redirecting the visitor, temporary redirections (sometimes referred to as 302 redirects) work in a similar fashion to permanent redirects, apart from that they don’t tel the visitor’s browser to update any bookmarked URLs which link to the resource such as the file or directory located on the website which is trying to be accessed by the visitor. The redirects feature is popular among most blogging programs, such as Wordpress - although it is normally found in its more technical form via the use of the .htaccess file rather than a simple panel contained within cPanel; this is because it can be used to shorten down long URLs - most blogs normally produce posts with long URLs so that informative information such as the date it was published as well as the full title of the post - however, thy normally shorten the lengths down with the use of a 301 redirect to only leave the title of the post so that others can refer to it in their own blog posts or in their websites without the need of posting a confusing URL but with the ability to post a much shorter and much more understandable URL to the actual blog post. This feature is generally used within websites to help make their web pages much more accessible if they have long URLs as well as to help boost their search engine ranking since this feature can help improve the search engine friendliness of a website’s URL; with a boosted search engine ranking, your website will probably receive more visitors that have been sourced from a search engine keyword search. If you utilize the wild card feature of the redirects feature of cPanel then you can redirect any requests for any file within a directory to another directory with the ability to maintain the file name in the web page request; this means that you can move directories within your website as well as renaming then without the need to change any links in your main website since any requests for files within the old directory will be forwarded to the new directory with the file name being requested retained in the request for the file in the directory concerned - this also means that you can create much more search engine friendly URLs for less search engine friendly URLs that are being used in your website.

Conclusion

In conclusion, you are able to use the domain features of cPanel to help give your products and services their own individual corporate identities which you can then use to market and promote them; this use of a separate mini-site and corporate identity for each product or service that you supply or sell can also help you get an increased search engine score which in turn can increase the amount of visitors that you actually receive from search engine searches of particular keywords which link to your products and services in some way or another. You can also use the domain features provided by cPanel to increase the amount of domains and websites that you are able to host on your standard shared cPanel website hosting account; this feature can help you make the most out of what you have paid for your hosting account since you are able to host more websites than just one without the need to purchase any new website hosting packages - this feature is perfect for you if you feel the need that you want to host more websites or if you just want to separate your site more into different segments so that is much easier for both you to manage and for your visitors or customers to navigate. The ability to park and manage your many domains which you are not using effectively has also been discussed, this means that if you own many domains of the same subject and want them all to display the same website then you can do that at ease without having to upload the website or parking page for each website individually, which in turn can help save you a lot of time and fuss when it comes to both the management of the domains and the uploading of the necessary files; you can also use this feature if you have a large corporate website which you want to have shown under many domains which you have purchased for this purpose - in this case you might want to build some sort of language translation feature into your website so that the text for visitors from foreign countries using a separate TLD is displayed in their native language and not the English that you have most likely written the content of your website in. Other features discussed allow you to make the URLs and file paths in your website much more search engine friendly thus giving your website a much higher search engine ranking (sometimes referred to as search engine score); this is done in the way that the URLs for your website are made much more readable and keyword rich which means that search engines are more likely to like your web pages because of this since the content will most likely link back to the title or the URL of the web page which it might not have done originally - this feature is heavily involved in the design of software such as blogs and content management systems where the URL of the content must be easily readable as well as where the title and URL of the web page must link back to the content that is will display in some way or another, in the case of blogs you might also find this feature being used since the originally generated URL is much longer and confusing and is not appropriate for use for people who want to link back to the article concerned in their own blogs or websites or for those who might want to refer others to the article via the use of email.

Blogs are online journals in which people write about things - whether it be the ramblings of their life or tutorials to help others along. The word ‘blog’ comes from the word ‘weblog’, and has many words which derive from it; these words being: blogger and blogging. The word blogger is the name given to the author of the blog, and blogging the name given to the process of writing to a blog; the world blog can also refer to the process of writing to a blog. Blogs have been becoming more popular over the last 2 years, and as of July 2007 there are around 70 million active blogs on the internet. If you are looking to start your own blog, there is no time better than now to do so.

To start your own blog, there are certain factors which you need to work out before you start anything, there are:

• What you are going to blog about.
• Your intended target audience.
• The name of your blog.
• Whether you are going to use a free or paid blogging service.
• If you are going to pay for a hosting service: what blog software you are going to use.

What You Are Going to Blog About

The most important factor to consider when starting your own blog is what you are going to blog about; this is because the content of the blog will determine how successful it is: if you write about personal stuff then your blog is not going to gain much traffic, as the only visitors will probably only be friends or family; if you write posts which will help others out in any way then they are most likely to recommend your blog to others which means that it will gradually gain traffic.

Identifying Your Intended Target Audience

Once you have worked out what you are going to blog about, you need to work out who is most likely to visit your blog, and why; this is important because when you come to promoting your blog, you want to make sure that you are promoting it to the right group of people. This also plays a huge part in the amount of visitors that you receive; if it’s only family and friends visiting your blog then the amount of traffic that you receieve won’t be a huge amount, however, if people are finding and visiting your blog from web searches then they are most likely to be returning visitors, and will recommend your blog to others.

The Name of Your Blog

You can name your blog anything you want, you can even name it after yourself. However, most blog names are normally linked to the blog’s subject in some way or another. The name of your blog must be simple to say, and easy to remember; simple names are more likely to stick in people’s heads which means that if people can remember the name and address of your blog then they will most likely recommend it to others.

Using a Free or Paid Service

There are many different services which you could use to host your blog. You could use a free service which gives you a sub of their main domain name; the main downside of free blog hosting services is that they normally fill your blog with unwanted adverts. The following is a list of free blog hosting services which you can use to help get you started:

• http://www.blogger.com/ - Blogger is Google’s free blog hosting service. It is one of the most popular in the world. The adverts that they place are rather discrete and blend in with the chosen design. The address given is normally ‘blogname.blogspot.com’.
• http://www.cjb.net/ - CJB.net run a free blog hosting service along with a range of other free services. Adverts placed by them aren’t that discrete and don’t blend in with the blog. The url provided is normally ‘http://blogs.cjb.net/blogname’.
• http://www.wordpress.com/ - Witth Wordpress.com you can create your own instance of the popular open source WordPress blog system, but hosted on their servers. The url provided is normally ‘blogname.wordpress.com’.

If you are not tempted to use a free blog hosting service, then you buy a cheap web hosting package with a web host along with a domain. With paid blog/hosting services you have full control of your blog and don’t have forced advertisements displayed. You can then install one of the following free blog software packages:

• http://www.wordpress.org/ - Wordpress is the world’s most popular open source blog system.
• http://www.b2evolution.net/ - B2Evolution is another piece of popular blog software. It is different from Wordpress in the way that you are able to create multiple blogs within one installation.
• http://www.mephistoblog.com/ - Mephisto is a relatively new piece of open source blog software. It is different from both Wordpress and B2Evo since it was written in the up and coming RoR scripting language.

E-mail forwarding is the most effective way to recieve email address sent to multiple addresses without creating multiple POP3 e-mail accounts. The most common redirects are webmaster@yourdomain.com,sales@yourdomain.com,support@yourdomain.com,                     info@yourdomain.com etc. You can use your control panel features to create redirect for these or other addresses and send all the mails to addresses delivered to POP3 accounts of your choice. This is an most easy way to send emails to several members of your company which avoids hassle of creating and monitoring multiple accounts in yur email client.

Autoresponders is a method of automatically replying to an email with information. Using autoresponder with a redirect would allow you to capture rmail adress of the person requesting information. You can also use CGI email form in combination with an auto responder and a redirect to capture more detailed information about the requestor.

E-mail forwarding and autoresponders can be of great help if configured correctly. However, a small mistake in configuration may result in problems affecting all mail delivery associated with your account. Read the manuals before using this features.

Configuration errors that encounter include:

a.Incorrect “default” redirect
The first entry in e-mail forward list should be “default” followed by the primary account login (e.g., yourdomain@yourdomain.com).

b. Incorrect naming
Redirects and autoresponders must not share the same name as a POP3 user or a maillist.

Hey, one more update for broadband users:

Error 1024 on Windows Vista:

1) Go to ‘Start’.

2) ‘Run’ >> ‘msconfig’.

3) Click on ‘Sartup’ on the tabs along the top.
4) Then under ‘Command’ try to find: C:\Program Files\Speedtouch\……

5) To make sure that it is ‘Speedtouch’, check that it says ‘Speedtouch’ and that it has a blue tick next to it.
6) Untick the blue tick from the box. Make sure the right one is selected or else this could harm your PC.

7) Then click on ‘Apply’ and then ‘Close’.

Restart your PC and wallah, no more error 1024!

9) Again do not try this if you are not sure about it as it can harm the computer.

In Vista, System Restore is set to delete restore points after roughly 136 years … yeah, let that sink…

Normally Windows uses up to 15 percent of a drive’s available space to save restore points. In XP, the option to change this figure was configurable from the ‘System Restore’ tab of the ‘System Properties’ dialog box. But sadly, this option is no longer offered in Vista.

But you can do so as follows :

Open regedit and go to
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\
SystemRestore\Cfg Double-click the DiskPercent.
The default is f (in hexadecimal) which is 15 in decimal. For making it say 10% type ‘a’
Now again, how frequently you’d like to have your SystemRestore points auto-created can also b configured as follows :
Open regedit and go to
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore
You can change the value RPGlobalInterval from its default setting of 86,400 seconds (24 hours) to, say, 43200 (a8c0) if u want it created every 12 hrs.

As and how your new restore points get created, the older ones get deleted due to the available space constraint.
Otherwise by default, in Vista, System Restore is set to delete restore points after roughly 4,294,967,295 seconds or 136 years, which was a mere 90 days in XP! The idea apparently, is to delete them only when absolutely necessary due to space constraint!!! But err…136 years !!!
But if you’d like to, you can also change this interval too. Change the value of RPLifeInterval in the same key; a setting of 7,776,000 seconds (or 76a700 in hexadecimal) is equivalent to 90 days.
To create System Restore Points on the fly, try System Restore Point Creator. Using this utility, you can create System Restore Points in one click. Works on Vista! To change the frequency of the System Restore Points formation, without using the Registry Editor, you can download CSRF Utility.

Inspired from :- http://www.winvistaclub.com/t2.html