Win7 Install... 40gb+

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blade52x

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I just installed Windows 7 on a machine and I guess I've never noticed this until now. But anyway, why is the Windows 7 installation taking up nearly half the space 120GB SSD? All the Windows 7 virtual machines I've installed only take up around 10GB...

When I highlight everything in drive C (including hidden folders) I only get about 18-19GB in the folder properties. So where is all this extra space? I've also set the shadow copy to 4GB maximum size, so it shouldn't be that. I've run disk cleanup and removed system files, but that didn't do much. If anyone has any ideas of where this extra 30GB is, please let me know! Thanks.
 
System Restore points, Hibernation File and Updates?


My fully updated Win 7 installation is only 14.5GB
 
You could disable system restore and if it is enabled, hibernation.
 
How big is your Pagefile? That's 16GB or 32GB (Depending on which machine it is) right there if you haven't changed it.
 
Thanks guys, it was both reasons - page file and hibernate. Setting a much lower page file maximum and disabling hibernate must have freed up over 40GB (on the VM machine). Thanks!
 
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