Re:Announcing the Surface 3
by Spearchucker on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @11:02AM
(#9296674)
Err I'm running Windows 8 on a 32Gb HP Stream 7. Heaps of music, and 3 movies, and the recovery partition and still have 17GB free. What causes your install to grow so much?
Re:Announcing the Surface 3
by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @11:07AM
(#9296723)
Windows Update mostly.
And you can clean that stuff up with the disk cleanup app. You don't need to retain those old install files forever.
Re:Announcing the Surface 3
by Someone1234 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @01:42PM
(#9298360)
That will clear out Service Packs and some uninstaller files, it won't clean up WinSXS.
Have you gone through these commands? AFAIK, windows will do it automatically on small disk systems.
Re:Announcing the Surface 3
by chadgeidel on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @11:14AM
(#9296805)
That certainly has not been my experience. My windows install (minus user folder and my own dev/game/application folders) has not grown appreciably since I initially set up the box.
Obviously user folders can grow quickly, but I wouldn't put the blame on Windows for that.
Nope. Windows grows over time. So a Windows install that fit into 40 GB would grow to over 100 GB over a two or three years.
Heck we had to pull an entire rack of servers because the idiots that set them up partitioned the drive into a 100 GB C: and a massive D:, and Windows consumed all the space on C: just through Windows Update and then started falling over.
We had to rebuilds the machines with a 200 GB C: and they have been running fine ever since.