mow Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Hi all, I had succes in installing Vista latest beta on my macbook (using the nice hiding method). I devoted 13Gb to windows, and now after Office12 install I'm running out of space (Vista is by far the most hard drive space sucker OS I've ever seen). Now what can I safely remove? How can I save some space for my precious apps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Whoa, you are running out of space? Holy {censored}. I thought about messing with Vista but never did (got a key that I can use). How big is the main Vista installation? I am a System Admin and I wonder this since the migration to Vista is coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mow Posted July 19, 2006 Author Share Posted July 19, 2006 \Windows 7.2 Gb \Pagefile.sys 2.06 Gb \hiberfil.sys 1.97 Gb \Program Files 1.02 Gb \MSOCache 498 Mb (it's office temp dir) \Sys Vol Info 300 mb \Users 263 Mb and so on..note so little space for actual user data!! To be more specific: \Windows\winsxs 3.31 Gb -Backup 359 Mb then hundreds of dirs starting with x86_microsoft_windows of size between 125 and 10 Mb \Windows\System32 2.27 Gb -Driverstore 819 Mb -Speech 203 Mb -config 124 Mb 306 Mb of Fonts 276 Mb of assembly (??) etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Over 7 gigs for windows alone? That is alot of stuff. Sorry to not be any help to ya, just floored me how much vista took. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intelx Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 \Windows 7.2 Gb\Pagefile.sys 2.06 Gb \hiberfil.sys 1.97 Gb \Program Files 1.02 Gb \MSOCache 498 Mb (it's office temp dir) \Sys Vol Info 300 mb \Users 263 Mb Since I have a lot of memory, I reduced the pagefile to about 300 megs. I could probably even turn it off. I also deleted the hiberfil.sys and turned off hybernation. You could delete MSOCache. I think it's only needed when you need to change Office install options. There's proably tons of stuff you could delete in \windows. There was for XP. Since no one has done it, I'm probably not going to experiment much. Speech, tours, media (sample sound and video files), cursors, caches, help, and other stuff.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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