Shrinking Windows 7

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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?
 
hibernation file, pagefile, change location of 'User' folders etc, change/remove system restore.
umm cant think of much else off the top of my head.
 
If you can keep the pagefile on your SSD.

Have you run diskcleanup? Removed SP1 install files (if you didn't do an integrated SP1 install)?

What size drive and how much free space do you have?
 
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
 
That's pretty respectable - I wouldn't try for much more :)

Just be wary of moving too much off, like you've highlighted games files, or you'll end up slowing things down.
 
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 :p Not a massive amount of games have loading time issues. Think I'll dump Diablo3 on there for the weekend lol
 
I used to have 2x256GB SSDs in RAID0 just for my games - it helped some games more than others, but for most it wasn't a significant improvement in loading time.
 
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.
 
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