Vista Tip, Slim Down your HD

Post by: bingorabbit
Published on February 28th, 2009
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Most of you know that I’m not a fan of M$ Windows – actually I’m not a big fan of Microsoft itself -, and after the last 2 nights, my hatred became more and more to this System – My laptop is shipped with Vista Home Premium -. An Operating System that is installed on 13GB! wtf. Let’s story this, when I boaught my laptop, by default the windows partitioned it into 2 partitions each got half of my hard disk. For sure I didn’t accept that and I repartitioned it after Vista finished installation into 20GB Vista, 30GB for my stuff – including 12GB+ of CATReloaded related stuff -, and almost 85GB for anything else, including movies, mp3s, IT Stuff..etc and the rest is for Linux and its swap. I’m working on a project, in which I have to install some programs needed SP1 for Vista, I found that I really need to update the system to install the last one, for that you need free 3GB on the Windows partition which had only 1.5GB. So I started to free-up some space, deleting some other programs, disk cleanups and defragments, when it reached 2GB.

The thing that really astonished me is that I had no major programs installed except Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Sony Vegas, all of them got only 1.5GB or even less, so I started to thing, where did the rest of the 20GBs go? – Dun bother yourself calculating, it should be 7GBs -. I started searching for extra large files and directories, especially in the C:\Windows\ directory. I searched Google, when I found a very interesting article about how to free-up your Vista partition including directories that you remove, to reach a satisfying space if you are really in need for it.

One very interesting directory, was “C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\” in which the installation binaries of the updated the system had reside. The shocking thing is that I found this directory’s space 1.3GB which was really a great thing, and I deleted it having more space than what I actually needed. So, if you have any more tips to free-up more space on that thing called vista, just let me know :).

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11 Responses to “Vista Tip, Slim Down your HD”

  1. kamasheto says:
    February 28, 2009 at 6:55 PM

    I have a terrific idea…

    Just remove it completely!

    :cool:

    Reply
  2. Ahmed says:
    February 28, 2009 at 10:39 PM

    Kamasheto is right ….. kick it out of your system :smile:

    Reply
  3. Mohamed Atia says:
    February 28, 2009 at 10:45 PM

    do you know that I once had a windows vista’s Windows folder with a size of 16 GB !!!! :evil:

    Reply
    • bingorabbit says:
      March 1, 2009 at 1:49 AM

      They are kidding aslan, when I downloaded SP1 I found that I need 3GB Free Space, it’s not even 3GB for the binaries and the installation, it’s for the installation only!!

      Reply
  4. Osama Gamal says:
    March 1, 2009 at 12:27 AM

    lol .. I’m used to give windows vista 42GB :)
    we ma3 zalek I have 7.5GB free disk space :mrgreen:

    Reply
  5. Ahmed El Gamil says:
    March 19, 2009 at 10:12 PM

    Just used your tip..
    Jzakom ALLAHu Kher

    Reply

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