Windows 7 - What can I remove?

bloodline76 · 2 Nov 2010 at 17:16

I have installed W7 onto a 36gig raptor drive and despite having my AV and other applications running off another drive it is virtually full up.

Is there any little applications that I can safely remove that I don't need?

Thanks

reflux · 2 Nov 2010 at 17:18

Turn off hibernation and move the page file to another drive?

SiriusB · 2 Nov 2010 at 17:20

Look under Features in Programs and Features. Might be stuff there to remove.

If you have most of your applications on a different drive, your SSD is pointless.

SiriusB · 2 Nov 2010 at 17:20

The best place for the Pagefile is on the SSD.

MikeHunt79 · 2 Nov 2010 at 17:23

Maybe see if you can change your users folder to be on another drive?

Also, there is no mention of an SSD in the OP!

Infam0us · 2 Nov 2010 at 17:25

You can probably lose a few of the Windows Features on the Programs and Features ...

SiriusB · 2 Nov 2010 at 17:29

MikeHunt79 said:
Maybe see if you can change your users folder to be on another drive?

Also, there is no mention of an SSD in the OP!

Good point! I just saw the small capacity and assumed it was an SSD. Still the point stands - you use a fast drive [mechanical or otherwise] to make Windows faster. Shoving stuff like the pagefile on a slow drive makes having the faster drive a bit pointless.

Lunatic Dreyfus · 2 Nov 2010 at 17:44

Blimey! I bought my 36GB Raptor over 6 years ago, and I'm amazed there are people still using them. Fair play though.

Mine served well and lasted a long time, right up until the whole Vista 'unpleasantness' and it was then I realised 36gb just wasn't enough to be useful any more.

Could be the case that the OP is discovering the same problem. You keep taking stuff out until there's nothing left, so to speak.

bloodline76 · 2 Nov 2010 at 18:01

Thanks guys. Got an extra 5g back.

Yeah my little raptor has always been my OS drive. Not for speed just its the smallest and fastest in the computer and leaves more storage space and keeps all the drives a little bit safer from corruption.

Thanks for the feedback.

Long live the RAPTOR!!!!

Broken Hope · 2 Nov 2010 at 20:15

SiriusB said:
Look under Features in Programs and Features. Might be stuff there to remove.

Pretty sure that does nothing in regards to disk space, the files are still present on the harddisk if you decide to turn stuff back on again.

Raumarik · 2 Nov 2010 at 22:30

At an elevated command prompt just type in "powercfg -h off" and you'll more than likely save at least 1Gb of space. I even saved the space despite already having disabled hibernation in the control panel!

SiriusB · 2 Nov 2010 at 23:37

Broken Hope said:
Pretty sure that does nothing in regards to disk space, the files are still present on the harddisk if you decide to turn stuff back on again.

Ah good point, actually. Even if it was deleted off the HDD he would probably only get back a few 100MB anyway!