Clean install of Windows 8.1 64bit so large??

mediamatt · 22 Dec 2014 at 10:43

darael said:
Did you try what I said, particulary the component store part?

Hi,

Yeah I did that and the other stuff I said above and I had 225GB left. Wonder why Windows 8.1 doesn't do this automatically?

Thanks for the help,

Matt

ED209 · 22 Dec 2014 at 10:58

a bit strange, at least you have the space back and all sorted now

i will be doing a windows 8.1 install over Christmas with my 970 going in

tickedon · 22 Dec 2014 at 11:20

I really wouldn't recommend having such a small page file. You will be compromising the performance of some applications at various points. Windows also won't be able to write kernel crash dumps if anything goes wrong either.

You might want to have a read of http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx which has some useful tips on how to calculate the page file size and other things.

varkanoid · 24 Dec 2014 at 09:36

Should have used something like Tree Size first it would have told you where the largest folders/files were so you could target them.

HEADRAT · 24 Dec 2014 at 13:35

bledd. said:
Handy tool.

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

Or

https://windirstat.info/

Rroff · 24 Dec 2014 at 13:45

tickedon said:
I really wouldn't recommend having such a small page file. You will be compromising the performance of some applications at various points. Windows also won't be able to write kernel crash dumps if anything goes wrong either.

You might want to have a read of http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx which has some useful tips on how to calculate the page file size and other things.

After a lot of use based on my personal experience I've left my pagefile at 1GB initial size with maximum at 8GB (doesn't harm going higher but I've never needed it) - with 16GB of RAM it works best - any lower causes problems at some point if your any sort of power user. On my desktops I turn hibernation off.

Rather than deleting all restore points and/or turning it off entirely I'd cap the size it can use at something sensible (around 5-6GB if you can spare the space) as it can be really useful if things go wrong. Its kind of funny with a clean install of Windows 8 as you start with ~4GB used by the OS then once system restore kicks in the OS disc use jumps to ~9GB :S

Mattus · 27 Dec 2014 at 15:11

I have no idea why people mess around with the size of the page file. I reckon the people who wrote the Windows kernel know a bit more about memory management than I do, so I just let Windows manage it.

KIA · 28 Dec 2014 at 12:40

Mattus said:
I have no idea why people mess around with the size of the page file. I reckon the people who wrote the Windows kernel know a bit more about memory management than I do, so I just let Windows manage it.

SSD space is valuable.