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Craig234

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I have an Intel X25 80GB used for my boot drive.

Stuff puts crap on it - for example, the Amazon downloader for games is hardcoded to only put the download file on C:.

Given it's Windows' boot drive, who knows what all is on it.

Mine has gotten pretty full, interested in a couple tips:

- Any good utilities for getting an overview of disk usage to see what to remove?

- I never quite learned if anything is needed to free deleted files on SSD, or what TRIM quite is as far as whether you need to run it, other than it was a good thing to get.
 
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razel

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Windirstat is a golden oldie that graphically shows you what's taking up space and easily lets you navigate so you can delete/move it.

Also, please do not move your pagefile off the SSD. You'll be null-ing the benefits. I recommend specify your pagefile to a minimum of 16MB or 512MB and a max of ridiculous so that it can grow as needed.
 
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razel said:
Windirstat is a golden oldie that graphically shows you what's taking up space and easily lets you navigate so you can delete/move it.

Also, please do not move your pagefile off the SSD. You'll be null-ing the benefits. I recommend specify your pagefile to a minimum of 16MB or 512MB and a max of ridiculous so that it can grow as needed.
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the benefits of a pagefile on your ssd if you have a 8gb+ of ram are pretty minor...I'd much rather have that space available to me on my ssd for programs where the speed difference will be very noticeable.
 
razel

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As previously stated, you can reduce your pagefile to start at a smaller size then let it grow.
 
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pcslookout

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vshah said:
the benefits of a pagefile on your ssd if you have a 8gb+ of ram are pretty minor...I'd much rather have that space available to me on my ssd for programs where the speed difference will be very noticeable.
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I highly disagree. Some programs still use the paging file even if you have 8, 16, 32 GB + of ram.
 
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groberts101

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Curious as to what programs those would be?

I've been running for many years on gfx/vid workstation's without a page file and have never had issue at all.
 
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You can find out where the downloader downloads to (Likely the temp folder) by using utilities such as Process Monitor from sysinternals and check for file activity.

Once you find where it downloads to, you can move and use something called NTFS junction to move the folder to another HDD. There are many articles on how to do so. It may or maynot be possible depending on the folder.

Temp folder for example you either need to boot into separate Windows as it's likely to be being used. But I think it's possible in windows to change where the temp folder is by setting the DOS enviornmental variable using cmd.exe and set command
 
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groberts101

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pcslookout said:
Photoshop being one.
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nope... been using that one on gfx workstations without a PF since PS6. I currently run the Master Suite without so much as a peep from any of the programs.

Granted.. it requires some carefull allowance of system resources to avoid out of ram notifications if you only run 4 gigs or less.. but can be easily done by reducing multitasking during editing as the program doesn't actually REQUIRE the PF to exist to run properly.

I keep hearing this same old stereotypical response but no one seems to have a definative list of programs that require it. Doesn't really matter though.. since regardless of what opinions are on the matter?.. I was just sharing my experience, more or less. I'll continue to run without hiberfiles, sys restore, and pagefile to allow my system to run with less bloat and resource hogging.

as for the OP's question of free space?.. the more the better. If you are concerned of having this mysteriously required swap file and have much ram?(as most do these days).. then do as the other's have already mentioned and set a small one for good measure. Unless you have 15 highly resource consuming tasks occuring at one time?.. you'll never even bump into it anyways.
 
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razel said:
Windirstat is a golden oldie that graphically shows you what's taking up space and easily lets you navigate so you can delete/move it.

Also, please do not move your pagefile off the SSD. You'll be null-ing the benefits. I recommend specify your pagefile to a minimum of 16MB or 512MB and a max of ridiculous so that it can grow as needed.
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I always set it to a set amount. It's probably not as big of a deal (if only because of it being less noticable) now, but windows used to take a noticable performance hit when you made it constantly shift it's pagefile size.

I also tried moving the pagefile to my old raptor, but I could easily notice some difference (mostly with WoW loading) so I keep it on my SSD.
 
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A huge space hog are Windows' Temporary Internet Files/IE5 Content. Move that folder off of your SSD and onto a data drive.
 
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I still think IE9 is awesome and it's my most used browser /OCZ Vertex 2 120GB
 
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Craig234

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Thanks for the tips. I used the disk use utility that's free.

Funny enough, I have 4GB RAM, but a pagefile.sys file 7.8GB, and hiberfile.sys 2GB.

Nothing on the issue of making sure the space is freed up when files are deleted, is there anything manual to do with TRIM?

I notice when I delete a file, it asks, to recycle bin or without option to undelete.
 
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