vista ultimate hd space

steveo · 29 Apr 2007 at 20:58

after getting a free copy of ultimate of my idiot boss (yea i no lol he didnt no what he was giving me) any way i have it installed on my lappy for now, but upon looking at the hard drive space now free, it would seem that vista has taken up a whopping 15gb of my hd lol is this normal or have i got extra content that am not using/needing or getting :confused:

steveo

WotDa · 29 Apr 2007 at 21:04

It's 'normal'

And they say it's not a resource hog.

UKDTweak · 29 Apr 2007 at 21:07

Strange, i have ultimate installed fully on a 20gb partition on my laptop, and even with other apps installed i have used just under 10gb... ???

WotDa · 29 Apr 2007 at 21:14

UKDTweak said:
Strange, i have ultimate installed fully on a 20gb partition on my laptop, and even with other apps installed i have used just under 10gb... ???

System restore off? Only thing I can think of currently... But, iirc Vista 'needs' 15Gb, of course, Vlite soon sorts that.

steveo · 30 Apr 2007 at 06:24

cheers guys guess i can life with it

steveo · 30 Apr 2007 at 11:34

wotda are there any other programs like vlite that can trim the weight of the vista hd space ???? :confused:

WotDa · 30 Apr 2007 at 12:32

steveo said:
wotda are there any other programs like vlite that can trim the weight of the vista hd space ????

Not that I know, other than the recycle bin.

bledd or someone might be in here later with a whole host of suggestions though.

Tute · 30 Apr 2007 at 13:02

Check control panel and unistall all those "features" you'll never use?

Clear the system restore points, or disable it?

Run disk cleanup - this helps a lot more than you think.

[Edit] My HP x64 install is just over 10GB.

steveo · 30 Apr 2007 at 22:33

yup i did a clean up and turned of restore coz i never use it any way and its still above 10gb lol nice big bloated software m$ have got us here

Tute · 1 May 2007 at 00:40

steveo said:
yup i did a clean up and turned of restore coz i never use it any way and its still above 10gb lol nice big bloated software m$ have got us here

New Windows in "takes up more HDD space" shocker! :rolleyes:

So what the hell did you buy that nice big hard drive for then? E-peen? :eek:

steveo · 1 May 2007 at 06:24

Tute said:
New Windows in "takes up more HDD space" shocker!

So what the hell did you buy that nice big hard drive for then? E-peen?

sorry what big hd :confused:

and yes theres a big difference from xp taking up 3-4gb and vista taking up 10-15gb :mad:

marc2003 · 1 May 2007 at 06:50

see this post i made about vlite the other day....

marc2003 said:
this is after installing office 2003 and loads of other junk. it would be well under 5gig on a clean install. also my pagefile is 1.8gb so vista itself is using just 3.2gb.

i've removed all the builtin drivers and vista annoyances. windows defender, uac and the indexing service are gone for good.

http://www.vlite.net/

steveo · 1 May 2007 at 11:17

oohh nice will have to have a look at vlite again i tryed it yesterday but couldnt get it going past the (find your vista installation)

marc2003 · 1 May 2007 at 11:43

steveo said:
oohh nice will have to have a look at vlite again i tryed it yesterday but couldnt get it going past the (find your vista installation)

vlite wouldn't copy the files from the dvd for me so i copied the files manually and then pointed vlite at the folder on my hard disk.