MikeHawthorne

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Hi

I came to my attention today that some people seem to have much smaller Windows 10 installs then I do.
I don't have any software in my C:\ drive other then a few really small things like CCleaner etc.

I have W10 installed on a 100 Gb partition.

It uses 63 Gb of that.
Only 10 of those are in my Users, Program Files or Program Files (x86) folders.

My Windows folder is 29 Gigabytes.

After the last update I had over 30 Gigabytes in my Windows.old file to be removed.

How big are other peoples Windows 10 installs?

And anyone have any ideas about what could be making mine so big?
I avoided adding a lot of fonts etc, that I would normally have, and I move the Pagefile to another drive.

if I have all those language packs installed where would they be and how could I get rid of them.

Mike
 


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Hi Dave

OK, I did it and it reduced the size of my installation by 26 Gb, which will help with the size of image files.

I still don't know exactly why my Windows folder is so large (just under 30 Gb) but it must have to do with things that I have installed on other drives.

Normally I'd expect it to be fonts, but I haven't installed my fonts in Windows 10 so my fonts folder is only 550 Mb.
I wonder if I can analyse Windows using Winderstat, I'll look at that.

Mike

OK, you can break down the Windows folder...

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As you can see the biggest space hog is DriverStore at 8.5 gigabytes, and that has folders in it for a lot of languages. Maybe they aren't all supposed to be there?

Could this be because to the update...
Thanks for the welcome Dave! I'm looking forward to be able to contribute in some way, hopefully.
 


Hi

I came to my attention today that some people seem to have much smaller Windows 10 installs then I do.
I don't have any software in my C:\ drive other then a few really small things like CCleaner etc.

I have W10 installed on a 100 Gb partition.

It uses 63 Gb of that.
Only 10 of those are in my Users, Program Files or Program Files (x86) folders.

My Windows folder is 29 Gigabytes.

After the last update I had over 30 Gigabytes in my Windows.old file to be removed.

How big are other peoples Windows 10 installs?

And anyone have any ideas about what could be making mine so big?
I avoided adding a lot of fonts etc, that I would normally have, and I move the Pagefile to another drive.

if I have all those language packs installed where would they be and how could I get rid of them.

Mike
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