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Good ways to make Windows 7 installation smaller?
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Thread created 03-28-2012 by RUsum1
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Post #48832906 added 03-28-2012 5:17 PM by RockySosua in Archived Deals
The System Restore files can take up a lot of space and you can clean them up like this. (see screenshots)
Good ways to make Windows 7 installation smaller?
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Thread created 03-28-2012 by RUsum1
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Post #49121060 added 04-08-2012 6:09 PM by RockySosua in Archived Deals
Am I understanding you correctly, that you removed the stock hard drive and installed a regular mechanical drive that's only 80 gigs? There are no tablet features to remove. You should leave system...
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Post #48835249 added 03-28-2012 7:00 PM by boltman2007 in Archived Deals
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Good ways to make Windows 7 installation smaller?
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Post #49066664 added 04-06-2012 6:17 AM by SnakePlisken in Archived Deals
maybe he's plannin to migrate to ssd down the road?
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Post #49121694 added 04-08-2012 6:56 PM by RUsum1 in Archived Deals
Yeah it came with a stock 640GB hard drive but since my mother doesn't play any games at all, doesn't store any videos (might not even store music as far as I know), and has only a limited number of...
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Post #48832410 added 03-28-2012 4:51 PM by RUsum1 in Archived Deals
This is on a non-SSD drive so some of those tips might not apply. I'm kind of surprised that after installing Windows 7 and a few programs, over 25GB of space is already being taken up. That seems...
Good ways to make Windows 7 installation smaller?
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Thread created 03-28-2012 by RUsum1
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Post #49059860 added 04-05-2012 9:25 PM by BlackAndChrome in Archived Deals
I pretty much would reiterate what others above have said, it's all sound. Page file is the hard drive space that is used as memory swap if your computer needs it. As stated if 8GB you don't need...
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Thread created 03-28-2012 by RUsum1
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Post #48834106 added 03-28-2012 6:10 PM by slapshot136 in Archived Deals
how much ram is in the computer? if it's 8 gigs, the default is to have a 8gb page file - you can safely reduce down to near nothing if you want (you will get a low page file warning if you actually...
Good ways to make Windows 7 installation smaller?
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Thread created 03-28-2012 by RUsum1
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Post #49051728 added 04-05-2012 2:23 PM by bubbachuck in Archived Deals
You can remove the backup files created when SP1 was installed. Shaves off a few GBs. Also I went into Programs and Features and removed things like Media Player, IE9, tablet-specific functions,...
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Post #49032528 added 04-05-2012 1:20 AM by 2cheap4retail in Archived Deals
imno, if you got the disk space, don't worry about it.
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Thread created 03-28-2012 by RUsum1
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Post #49033618 added 04-05-2012 3:54 AM by isolatebody in Archived Deals
If you did a back up before installing you might be able to get rid of the windows.old file. I know mine was 60 gigs after I went from Vista home to win 7 prof 64. I moved mine to a small HDD I had...
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Thread created 03-28-2012 by RUsum1
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Post #49119366 added 04-08-2012 3:49 PM by RUsum1 in Archived Deals
Oh wow I forgot about this thread since I hadn't messed with the laptop in a while so let me answer a few questions 1) This is only an 80GB hard drive. The laptop came with a 640GB but that is...
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Post #49066302 added 04-06-2012 6:12 AM by brbubba in Archived Deals
:iagree: Only time to worry about that is if you have an SSD.
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Thread created 03-28-2012 by RUsum1
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Post #49090082 added 04-06-2012 8:23 PM by BlackAndChrome in Archived Deals
How many people do you know that can reduce a partition and clone a drive but don't know where windows uses some extra bloat? -B&C

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