Saturday 17 March 2018

Possible to clean up some of the windows dir to free up drive space - windows 7


I've noticed my windows directory takes up 21GB's of space. Normally I wouldn't mind because I'm usually on a hard drive with plenty of space, but since having purchased an SSD boot drive, I'm a bit limited as to what goes on the C:\ drive.


Here is a detailed analysis of what is taking up that space:


Size details for C:\Windows


Name File Size Files % of Parent % of Total


winsxs 7,010,870 42,338 30.8% 11.0%


Installer 4,938,526 3,947 21.7% 7.7%


assembly 3,336,223 3,191 14.7% 5.2%


System32 2,713,797 11,860 11.9% 4.2%


SysWOW64 1,259,757 4,973 5.5% 2.0%


Microsoft.NET 1,147,614 3,951 5.0% 1.8%


Anything in here that can be safely cleaned out? Log files or installer files?



Answer



If you are running 64 bit, 20 GB is the minimum for Win 7. I wouldn't try deleting anything unless you want to risk activating some "undocumented features". :)


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