Windows 7 install size

smithy83

smithy83

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i have recently upgraded my pc (see below in my sig) everything is working nicely, there is just one thing tho on a clean install of windows 7 it seems to be taking up around 40gb of drive space.. while my old system on a clean install would take up around 15gb

i know 40gb is not that much space on a 1tb drive but seeing as i am planing on upgrading to a ssd in the new year i am just wondering what could account for this jump

(my spec of my old system was q6600,4gb ram p35c-dsr3, same drive

merry christmas all
 
Just reduce your page file to about 2GB ;)

Actually just checked mine, windows recommends 12GB, with 8GB of ram.
So yours is probably set to 24GB, if you reduce it to 2GB you'll have an extra 22GB free space.
 
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It's due to you having 16GB of RAM.

The page and hibernate files will be accordingly massive. The Page file defaults to 1.5x the size of the physical RAM, so that's 24GB...
 
Just have your pagefile on the hdd when you install the ssd. Sure the ssd is quicker but 16 gigabitings!!?! Bit much to sacrifice on an ssd imo
 
I'd bet my left nut you do NOT need to leave the PF system managed which will consume 24GB of reserved space for it.

The easiest way to confirm this is to manually set your PF to something small like 1GB and then install a Windows sidebar gadget that monitors and displays PF usage such as this.

I have 16GB of RAM as well and in the 4 days since I last rebooted my Win7 install has used no more than 27% of the 1GB allocation. That's gaming, Photoshopping, burning DVDs, browsing and being left on 24/7 - to give you an idea.

I have a 128GB SSD so obviously space is of importance, like yourself :p
 
There are good reasons for leaving the PF as system managed and on the same partition that Windows is installed in.

I'm not going to go into them as it's been covered many times in the past.
 
The system CAN manage it, yes....but that's not the point.

The system was put in place when SSDs were not about and because of that space is of higher importance today. The OS will remain stable and will function perfectly normally and will not consume more than the manually set amount of a user sets the allocation just above what their system uses as a maximum after normal usage.
 
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