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    how much space is your windows vista taking?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by hpl912, Jan 20, 2008.

  1. hpl912

    hpl912 Notebook Consultant

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    curious on knowing how much hard disk space is you guy's windows vista taking up.

    my setup:
    - windows vista ultimate
    - 1000MB virtual memory allocated
    - 1.7GB in the program files folder (installed programs)
    - ALL my personal files such as downloaded stuffs, music, audio files are on another drive (partition).
    - hard disk clean up tool done cleaning of all unecessary files

    all this still results me taking up 25GB of space only for windows and my programs. Shouldn't windows vista only take around the lines of 15GB?? and the weird thing is that i find mine relatively high and seems to increase even though i didn't installed any new programs. :confused: :confused:
     
    hpl912, Jan 20, 2008
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  2. NAS Ghost

    NAS Ghost Notebook Deity

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    its probably windows system restore
     
    NAS Ghost, Jan 20, 2008
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  3. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    Yes, it's System Restore. What you need to do is clear your System Restore files (except the most recent one) and you will see a dramatic increase in available space. There is a way to reduce the amount of space it's allowed to use, but I don't remember it exactly. Gimme a couple minutes to dig it up...

    :D
     
    pixelot, Jan 20, 2008
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  4. blaaze

    blaaze Notebook Consultant

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    its probably system restore... but if you go to add/remove programs and go under windows components there might be some other bloatware that youre not using...
     
    blaaze, Jan 20, 2008
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  5. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    About 2.5" as that is the physical dimensions of the hard drive.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jan 20, 2008
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  6. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    pixelot, Jan 20, 2008
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  7. Estlander

    Estlander Notebook Consultant

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    What i'd like to know is how much hard disk space is Vista gonna take up after SP1. I mean, this thing takes hours to install in the first place.
     
    Estlander, Jan 20, 2008
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  8. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    It needs 10GB to install itselff (temp files) and takes about 1GB more at the end.
     
    JCMS, Jan 20, 2008
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  9. CalebSchmerge

    CalebSchmerge Woof NBR Reviewer

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    My OS partition is using 17.1 GB, and that's with all my programs installed. Files are in a separate partition in case of a crash or virus.
     
    CalebSchmerge, Jan 21, 2008
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  10. crash

    crash NBR Assassin

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    crash, Jan 21, 2008
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  11. hardcorp

    hardcorp Notebook Consultant

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    hardcorp, Jan 21, 2008
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  12. NAS Ghost

    NAS Ghost Notebook Deity

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    if youre gonna be like that...you should at least be smart about it; i mean, last time i checked, we live in a 3D space...not 1D
     
    NAS Ghost, Jan 21, 2008
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  13. martyp

    martyp Notebook Enthusiast

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    9.2Gb is the size of the Windows folder, 2.3Gb in Program Files (Pre-Installed Windows Apps) and a 4Gb paging file.

    So in total 15.5Gb. I disabled system restore because if something goes wrong I'd presonally rather format. :)
     
    martyp, Jan 21, 2008
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  14. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    I have 26gb of 37gb used (only have a 40gb hard drive), about 16gb used just by Flight Simulator X! Using Vlite I got my Vista install to be smaller.
     
    Jayayess1190, Jan 21, 2008
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  15. BlackRussian

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    Vista Hibernation can take up another 2GB upwards. ;) (create a hidden system file called hiberfil.sys,)
     
    BlackRussian, Jan 21, 2008
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  16. vaio2k7

    vaio2k7 Notebook Evangelist

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    Vista is consuming about 13-14GB of space on my C drive, and I have 3.08GB of applications/programs on my other partition.

    Usually additional space gets consumed due to Vista automatically creating system restore points, and also about 2GB from whenever your system hibernates.
     
    vaio2k7, Jan 21, 2008
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