windows folder is huge.. 8.2GB.. is there a way to clean it up?

[Train]

Vista and a 40 - 50 GB partition works out OK.

Probably cut a GB or there abouts just in IE, Tools Internet options and on the general tab limit the size of the tif and the History.

Adjust the amount of space dedicated for restore points, Windows takes 15% of the drive space, and several other items.

[Byan]

>_>

breathing room, hmm?
well, I assume that if it actually needs more room I'll actually run out of space.. not just have less than a GB of it..


either way, performance on vista while suffocating the install partition is perfectly fine.

I do admit that this partition size was designed for an XP install and that a 25GB partition would probably be better.. but I wanted to know if there was a way to get rid of the unnecessary files in that folder...

One of these days I need to resize it >_>

[Steve R Jones]

All you have to do is determine which files are unnecessary. And if you're lucky, you find a few megs worth you can delete.

You can adjust the size that the recycle bin is allocated...

[Broni]

Use DriveSpacio: http://www.drivespacio.f-sw.com/index.html to see what's going on there.

[Byan]

I use windirstat, same concept

[Broni]

...and?
What did you find out? What's taking space?

[Byan]

I had used it before I got here..

11.9GB is the windows folder
6.5GB is winsxs
3.5GB is System32
2.3GB is the page file, which I just realized I should move to a different partition and then did so
Users is 1.4GB.. which is largely temp files and game saves
Program files is 1.3GB which is largely openoffice and common files

[Broni]

Well, I said before, you can't trim off too much here, and 16GB partition is too small for Vista.
Repartition, or get bigger hD.

[dneilson]

You don't seem to have a serious computer problem and hard drives are cheap---get a larger hard drive, smile and get on with life.