W7 size

I'm wondering how much disk space W7 is taking up for everyone else. With no programs installed and system restore off, mine is at 10.5gb. Am I wrong or is that pretty big?

 

That's about normal.

 

That sounds right to me. Before I installed anything (basically the first boot) I was at about 9-9.5gb. I have 2gb of RAM and you have 3, so my hibernation file would be 1gb less.

Greg

 

Okay, cool. Just wanted to make sure. Thanks.

 

I tested the "Lite" version on my Wind and it takes about 4GB of space. I think it doesn't have system restore, hibernation and a couple of other things.

 

What does it have that makes it take up all that space?

 

Where did you get Windows 7 Lite?

 

Who knows... but honestly, who cares? Large HDDs are becoming increasingly inexpensive, so what's 10GB anyway?

 

10.5 is an improvement over Vista, which took about 15GB. Not bad, Microsoft.

 

Vista was actually just a shade under 10 GB for me, with 2 GB of RAM. Been so long that I don't remember if that was with hibernation enabled or not, or what the pagefile was, though. Not counting hibernation (which oddly is at 3 GB size even though I have 4 GB of RAM - haven't tried hibernating with more than 3 GB in use), Win7 uses about 9 GB for me. So I would agree that it's an improvement over Vista, although with the large caveat that I don't know my exact Vista settings.

That's with no pagefile and no hibernation for Win7 at 9 GB, too, and five days since installation. XP Home SP2, by comparison, used just 1.03 GB on disk after a fresh install with no pagefile or hibernation, after zero days. Presumably XP RTM was smaller. So there's no way Win7 is getting as svelte as as XP. Vista, that's a possibility.

I actually do care a bit about space if I'm going to have two OS'es installed - it's always preferable to not have to spend more for a larger hard disk. But my 12 GB XP/18 GB Win7 estimate is working out quite nicely now, so I'm not going to complain. Dunno where they got the 18,666 MB suggestion for Win7 that it gave me in the setup, though - looks like it'll be quite awhile before it hits 18,000 MB at this rate. Maybe from the "1.5 times the RAM" pagefile that has traditionally been MS's default.

 

I have an EeePC...

 

On one of my machines I put Vista 32 Ultimate, everything enabled by default (Hibernation, System Restore etc...) with nothing added and no updates my Vista install was 15GB.

Now on the same machine I wiped it clean and then put 7 beta (all else same as above) and it took 9.5GB.

It's a beta vs. a final version of an OS so I’m not sure that it’s a fair comparison but if MSFT did indeed manage to cut over a third of the clean install footprint from Vista then that’s impressive.

 

Not really impressive. They removed all their software from the install (Mail, Windows Live Messenger, etc) and made them downloads. What would be impressive is if they kept all this software in and still managed to reduce the size by 1/3. That would indicate much more streamlined programming.

 

I hope that you aren't trying to say that the few program that were removed totalled 5Gb.

Greg

 

On my Vista Ultimate there was a link to download Windows Live Messenger; the program itself was never there. But Mail was.