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Vista 64bit HD taking up 35Gb+ ??

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mosprovider

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Something seems wrong here.

40GB partition and its taking up almost all of it. I have run the Vista SP1 Cleaner and its seems it cleaned out 2GB but im still on at least 35 gigs. There are a few windows folders holding all the data.

Is this a common issue?

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Sounds like you upgraded from XP to Vista. That being the case Vista was virtually installed along side XP and all the XP files, even those not needed, are still left on the system. Most applications designed to clean that up don't get everything. Its hard to sort out what can and cannot go. But the 34gb takover seams a bit high.
 
is it vista that is taking 35GB, or vista + ALL your program files?
If you upgraded from XP then you also have left all your XP and all your program files there....

Oh, and lets not forget my documents and user data...
 
i didn't say the programs remained operational, i just said their files were not deleted and are taking up space on drive C.

all his old programs would be in C:\Program Files.

When installed in 64bit vista they will all go into C:\Program Files (x86)
 
FWIW, I just did a Vista Ult 64 bit + SP-1 install, it was over 26GB. This was before the video drivers or any apps. Have you installed anything at all other than Vista + SP-1?
 
I just removed most all my programs from my Vista C:\ partition (everything but drivers and a few things) and my Vista install is sitting at 26.4GB. About a third of that is pagefile (8GB, unless its dynamically created and resize, but I think it's reserved...) and there are some files backup .WMVs for WMC lying around, but I don't think you'll get Vista x64 SP1 under 25GB with any ease.
 
Did you install SP1 after installing vista gold, or did you install it from a disk labeled vista SP1. because the upgrade process leaves a lot of duplicate files for uninstall purposes.

pagefile is automatically 2x your ram size.

so your vista install is 18GB + 8GB of pagefile. not 26GB. still a somewhat hefty size, but chump change in the age of 1.5TB HDD.

you can use vlite.net to cut it down... as much as you want.
 
pagefile is automatically 2x your ram size.

so your vista install is 18GB + 8GB of pagefile. not 26GB. still a somewhat hefty size, but chump change in the age of 1.5TB HDD.

you can use vlite.net to cut it down... as much as you want.
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I included the pagefile in my install size because I consider it essentially to be a component of the OS and, thus, have no intention of moving it. I leave the essentials (drivers and such) with the OS.

30GB of 465GB won't kill me. I only stripped my C:\ drive as an exercise to see what the Vista x64 +SP1 install size was and if I could fit it on a 32GB SSD with room to spare if they came down a bit. Thought it closer to 28GB, so I guess this was a somewhat pleasant surprise. Smaller than I had anticipated but still very, very large compared to just about anything else. XP-64, Ubuntu 8.10 x64, and OSX 10.5 all sit around at 6.0~6.6 GB, its crazy comparing Vista x64 at 25~GB. I Didn't know SP1 left files over for uninstallation though... probably going to leave them on, no point in making Vista any smaller unless I can comfortably fit it under 25GB (Its a number thing... I don't want a 26, 27, 28, or 29GB partition...). Been chugging along just fine for ten months though, no stopping me now.


still a somewhat hefty size, but chump change in the age of 1.5TB HDD.
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I'm not even sure what I'd do with that much space...
 
XP and XP-64 has the same pagefile policy, you just remember it being THAT smaller due to having less ram at the time. with 4GB of ram XP-64 will allocate 8GB for the pagefile, so it taking 6GB is impossible, it would be closer to 12GB. Still a fair size smaller then the 30GB of vista on a modern machine.

But yea, a 32GB SSD is just no practical.. I hope you were looking at the intel upcoming X25-E, and not at some lesser SSD. You should use a raptor, than a velociraptor instead of any SSD (in the PC) up to the intel X25-M, which is worthwhile, but costs 600$ compared to the 300$ veloci (which is a better drive then any other SSD on the market).
SSDs suffer tremendously from crappy controllers (all MLC SSDs) and mediocre controllers (all SLC SSDs), intels SSD just has a quality controller allowing their MLC to beat the pants off of any drive available. Ofcourse, those SLC SSDs can compete well in the laptop market, where platter drives are much worse off then their 3.5 inch counterparts.

read this anandtech review before buying an SSD:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...el/showdoc.aspx?i=3403
 
I used x86 actually, I looked up the footprint for x64 just to make a fair comparison. Forgot to add that in, like I said... me and my PF were never really good friends.

Yeah, Intels SSDs. You'd have to be blind and retarded not to have noticed everyone oogling those lately.
 
well, my point was more that the intel SSDs were the first to make sense for a desktop. even before intel SSD I could tell you that a velociraptor makes a better drive then any other SSD on the market. (it is just physically bigger and will not fit into a 2.5 or 1.8 inch laptop slot)
 
Why don't you just disable the paging file? No need for windows to throw stuff on the hdd when you should have plenty of real ram.
 
some programs directly address the page file, those programs would crash or worse if you disable the pagefile outright.
 
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