Windows 7 footprint sizes

MikeHunt79 · 2 May 2011 at 00:42

Hi, I'm needing to use quite a few W7 based VM's using VirtualBox, and I was wondering where I can find out the footprint size of each version of Windows 7? I'm trying to get a W7 install below 10Gb....

I'm guessing that Ultimate will use more space than W7 Basic, but I cannot seem to find the footprint size anywhere. Is it available or am I going to have to install it 8 times in order to find these figures out myself?

Azuse05 · 2 May 2011 at 00:51

Iirc it's something like 14-15GB for permium by default, although that probably includes page-files etc.

Ben Harrison · 2 May 2011 at 08:29

All MS seem to list are the requirements for 32- and 64-bit versions (16GB and 20GB, respectively).

Obviously they can be reduced a lot by disabling unneeded features, but for the defaults, this might be worth a look (first page):
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/from-starter-to-ultimate-whats-really-in-each-windows-7-edition/1031

MikeHunt79 · 2 May 2011 at 14:29

Ben Harrison said:
All MS seem to list are the requirements for 32- and 64-bit versions (16GB and 20GB, respectively).

Obviously they can be reduced a lot by disabling unneeded features, but for the defaults, this might be worth a look (first page):
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/from-starter-to-ultimate-whats-really-in-each-windows-7-edition/1031

Well this image from that link seems to be a good start;

he said that he used a mixture of x86 and x64 versions and also installed a few programs on each install so not exactly ideal...

So far I've got this after a W7 x64 clean install with hiber file removed and a 1gb pagefile:

I'm installing pro x64 now, I'm hoping it will be under 8gb...

MikeHunt79 · 2 May 2011 at 15:13

Ok, professional x64 seems to use more space compared to Ultimate, wtf?

Ben Harrison · 2 May 2011 at 16:12

That's with exactly the same configuration?

:confused: