win7 & sdd questions (deleting files is save?)

Hi, i got some questions.

I´m usign win7 x64 with an 80gb SSD (intel postville g2) and 4gb ram.


Paging file: I read that you can disable paging but it could cause problems when your ram is full. Should i disable it or set it to like 1gb ? currently it is 4,1gb.

Hibernation-file: i sometimes use hibernation (altough i think i could live without it). Can i simply delete the file? Currently 3,2 gb

%SystemDrive%\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
Its pretty big.. i read its safe to delete on vista.. same on win7 ?

%SystemDrive%\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository
there are some drivers in it.. well.. if i delete those i would have to download the driver when adding a new device (which gets done automatically). So this is safe to delete too?

Anything else i could delete to save some space?

Also about indexing: Does it use any space? I read it uses quite alot of ressources and makes win7 slower. Well i normally have indexing on as i also add custom folders which i want to be indexed (for example files/folder on my 2nd hdd). Is that still possible when disabling the indexing service? Does it even rly make sense to disable it?

Thanks & gn8

 

paging file: 1 GB is OK. 500MB is minimum.
Hibernation-file: win+R type "powercfg -h off" and this will delete that file safely
Indexing. No indexing, prefetching, superfetching, defragmentation and other similar things on SSD

 

okay thanks.

disabled hibernate
set paging to min. 1024mb and max 2048mb
will leave indexing enabled.
deleted everything in "%SystemDrive%\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download"

about the driver.. its 1gb but i guess i will leave it. Could deleting them cause some tubles with new hardware/monitors/what ever?

thanks

 

its preferred to set the same amount for pagefile.sys and for maximum and for min. If you set 2GB max it will use 2GB while your RAM could be used as you have 4GB RAM and that's enough. Also your paging file may be fragmented because of this and that's bad. I suggest you set 1000 or 1024 constant

 

moving the driver to the 2nd hdd is a good idea. when i add a new hardware and dont have internet connection (guess htta will never happen tho ) i could search the driver from the 2nd hdd

i know disk cleanup tool and also use ccleaner. But somehow i still loose some gb´s from time to time. I belive it was the paging & hibernating file + some caches of dirt2/f1 (installed the game on 2nd hdd.. still 5gb cache were on the ssd).

so i can leave the paging with 1024min and 2048max ? What happens if my 4 gb ram are full and the 2gb paging file too?

 

I missed that you have SSD. Yes you can put different size of paging file. Bat it is impossible 4GB RAM and paging file be full (well almost impossible). You should type in start bar system monitor. In opened window on the left side choose system monitor and you will see schedule. click on + to add a line. choose paging file and choose to show maximum level of it. then click add. After that you can do all tasks you ever did all together and see how big percentage level of paging file your system did used. Same thing to RAM. After that you will see how much Paging file you really need.
P.S. How do you think people lived with 1-2 GB RAM before if you afraid that 4GB is not enough? Even with nowadays programs and games? you can see how much ram is used in task manager.

PPS I have 31.5 GB C drive. 18Gb is free. 13.4 GB are not. But at the same time Windows folder has 13.9 GB and all folders in drive C have 16.8 GB. And Acronis home editor saved an image of my system drive without my documents and that image is about 24GB!!! How the HECK is that possible??? That is the question/// I will try to boot from another windows to check drive space again.

 

DO NOT TOUCH THE DRIVER REPOSITORY!!!

Unless you want to have problems when you update/upgrade Windows, DO NOT TOUCH THE DRIVER REPOSITORY!

Simply moving the repository to an external drive and then moving it back will not fix any issues you might face in the future. You will break security permissions when you move the files to an external drive. When you move them back, those permissions will not be restored.

And to everyone who has posted so far in this thread or will post in the future, DO NOT RECOMMEND TO ANYONE THAT THEY TOUCH FILES INSIDE THE WINDOWS DIRECTORY UNLESS YOU YOURSELF HAVE DONE SO AND HAVE THE PROOF TO BACKUP YOUR RECOMMENDATION!

Saying "Everything in it should also be available online from Windows Update" is not grounds to tell somehow to meddle with the Windows directory. There is no guarantee that all drivers are available on Windows Update. Also, Windows Update does not provide the drivers that ship by default with the OS because of the master driver list that the OS maintains.


Man, you guys made me get out of bed just to post this.


Now as for hibernation, it can be disabled with the command given earlier in this thread. You can adjust your page file yourself, but Windows is quite good at maintaining it itself. I do recommend that you move the pagefile to a hard drive and not an SSD. You can do this by disabling pagefile on the SSD and letting Windows manage it on a hard drive.