Shrinking Windows 7

oxygene · 20 Apr 2012 at 11:52

Ok Just a quicky really, since windows is running now off an SSD and space is always a premium, is there a good way to shrink down the install?
I'm moved all downloads to another drive, so that part is fine, but I remember people saying about being able to move my documents elsewhere? Will this impact games which save in my docs?
Also theres the almighty driver cache which always hangs around, I guess its safe to somehow remove that?

oxygene · 20 Apr 2012 at 12:35

Ah sweet thankee. Removing the first 2 gave me about 4gb lol. A gb or so from the system restore too.

oxygene · 20 Apr 2012 at 12:42

I did an integrated sp1 install a couple of days back. its a 60gb (56gb) and I have 20gb free atm but thats including a 15.4gb install of BF3

oxygene · 20 Apr 2012 at 12:55

Yeah I dont think BF3 keeps much in my docs, it syncs with the cloud every time I log in. Some game saves like anno could be quite large so if that game gets put on C then I might move the docs back I guess. Tbh I'm debating what else to have on there atm

Not a massive amount of games have loading time issues. Think I'll dump Diablo3 on there for the weekend lol

oxygene · 20 Apr 2012 at 13:06

Yeah its a great boost so far to windows and BF3. Theres a few that like you say I dont think it would help, but one or two make a massive difference.