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Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:36 am
by VolumetricSteve
I installed an OEM 64-bit copy of windows 7 last night only to discover that, on its own, it was chewing up about 30GB of space. Clean install, formatted drive, wiped, etc. I googled around and most folks seem to say it's about 10GB.
I sense something is slightly off.
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:34 pm
by obsidian
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with patches and it's only 23GB and that's not even a clean installation.
x64 does take a bit more space, ~20GB. Do you have hibernation enabled? Hibernation reserves as much disk space as you have RAM.
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 3:59 pm
by VolumetricSteve
Ahhhhhh crap I believe I do.
16GB
Still seems kinda bloated though..
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:47 pm
by Scourge
Year old install of 7 Home Premium 64 bit and mine's almost 22GB. No hibernation. Have you checked to see what restore is taking up? I know it's a new install, but it could still be taking up some space.
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:48 am
by AmIdYfReAk
Windows 7 pro, 64 bit, no hibernation, 18.8GB.
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 12:10 pm
by Foo
It's 2011, we (work) allow anything up to 40Gb for a standards client OS installation. Why sweat it? Storage is cheap as fuark and life is short.
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:55 pm
by VolumetricSteve
It's on an 120GB SSD, so space is kind of at a premium. I'm not at home at the moment, but I can easily check restore points, but it's starting to sound like Windows 7 is just much heftier than I anticipated. Cest La vie. I'll just be making more use of symbolic links...or whatever windows 7 calls them.
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2011 3:45 pm
by Foo
Junctions.
If it's any consolation Win7's actual usage is usually lower than the sum of it's folder sizes, since stuff like WinSxS mis-reports (because it's kinda using junctions itself)
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:17 am
by GONNAFISTYA
Win 7 Premium 64 bit takes 14.9 GB....not even one-tenth my porn collection.
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:25 am
by SoM
lez porn don't count.
i bet you can't beat my 1TB+ gay pr0n
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:11 am
by AmIdYfReAk
Foo wrote: Why sweat it? Storage is cheap as fuark and life is short.
Not any more!!!!
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:22 am
by Foo
Aw yeah. I deployed thin provisioning on our SAN today just to avoid having to buy HDDs for the next couple-a-monfs.
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 1:45 pm
by dghost77
Yeah forget buying HD for the next 6 months at least... thank you flooding in Thailand...
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 4:53 pm
by SoM
just checked my win folder after a year, and it's 20.7 GB
Re: Windows 7 can't be this huge..
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:28 pm
by duffman91
You can free up a few gigs of space by removing unnecessary Service Pack install files. Of course, these are needed to uninstall, but it's rare (and highly unadvised) to revert from a Service Pack. DISM.EXE works on Server 2008 OS's as well. Very handy.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\duffman91>dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Removing backup files created during service pack installation.
[==========================100.0%==========================]
Service Pack Cleanup operation completed.
The operation completed successfully.
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