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Windows Vista Folder... HUGE!
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Soldato
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15 month old install of Vista Business x64 recently upgraded to SP1 is taking up 17.5GB
does it really matter how big your windows folder is? if your windows partition is set to 20gb you might have a problem but other than that, forget about it....
Well said
Just 8 GB :O?
Why was vista protesting then when I had ''only 16'' gb left on a leftover hdd on which I wanted to try vista first before installing it on one of my main hdd's ?
EDIT: Whoa thx for the spacemonger tool, just got 15 GB of space back on my C drive.
Why was vista protesting then when I had ''only 16'' gb left on a leftover hdd on which I wanted to try vista first before installing it on one of my main hdd's ?
EDIT: Whoa thx for the spacemonger tool, just got 15 GB of space back on my C drive
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9.62gb vista ultimate 32bit - not bad 
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Ok, I'm confused about my install. I just installed Vista Ultimate x64 as my XP install was getting tired and I had Vista laying around.
I always have one drive for the OS and another for my programs, but I give the OS a partition of a spare drive, so I don't lose the space in the void of C:.
My XP install had a 25GB partition as I figured that would be more than enough for it, and it was. Vista has a 30GB partition, same reason, and it's using 28GB!
I have a picture using SpaceMonger...
I need space on C: to install an app, that requires 3GB on C: and then 15GB on my programs drive, but I only have just over 2GB spare on C:.
What can I do about it? It is a fresh install so I can just install it all again (don't really want to, almost finished installing everything), and give it a bigger partition size, but I'd rather there was something simple I can do to fix Vista's hunger problem.
InvG
I always have one drive for the OS and another for my programs, but I give the OS a partition of a spare drive, so I don't lose the space in the void of C:.
My XP install had a 25GB partition as I figured that would be more than enough for it, and it was. Vista has a 30GB partition, same reason, and it's using 28GB!
I have a picture using SpaceMonger...
I need space on C: to install an app, that requires 3GB on C: and then 15GB on my programs drive, but I only have just over 2GB spare on C:.
What can I do about it? It is a fresh install so I can just install it all again (don't really want to, almost finished installing everything), and give it a bigger partition size, but I'd rather there was something simple I can do to fix Vista's hunger problem.
InvG
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hiberantion file,i think mine was close to 4gb:
Start - all programs - accessories - system tools - disk cleanup
disable system restore
start then type in system restore and then choose the bottom option and untick the drive.
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Doing all that only freed it up from just over 2GB to 3.9GB space. 
My Vista is evil!
InvG
My Vista is evil!
InvG
