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Disk Usage
Hello all, I have some disk problems it may seem very irrelevant, though I need the windows to be below 8GBs is at 8.6 now and with the removal of features and optimisation it will be there though I have questions about some folders to perhaps drive it down even further.
These are my top usages above 12mb:
Blue: To be optimised, just a cleanup of unneeded files/folders to remain. (ignore)
Red: To be deleted, no need for these.
Orange: To be or all ready symlinked.
Purple: Proposed to be symlinked, if you think my decision is bad tell me.
Green: Nothing to be done
Grey: Need more information
- Assembly folder - Can I symlink this, is used to store .net assemblies for shared applications... would moving this cause a slow down?
- IME - I know I can optimise this by deleting the help files they're imagedisk files are these easy to move or is it best to leave it? And by best I mean will it cause error to symlink.
- Microsoft.net - Can this be moved safely is the framework but updating to all the revisions for backward compatibility purposes takes a lot of memory (I have yet to update this copy of windows) so if the whole folder can't be symlinked can only the not often used versions be moved?
- INF - is this safe to move, this would be ideal to move for me for streamline purposes will it cause problems?
- Config - Some things look moveable, others don't can this folder be symlinked safely without performance loss?
Note: WinSxS - I know this folder is deceiving with regards to size. Microsoft says the folder is about 400mb by default, There are large amount of debates around symlinking this and for 400mb I would say it's worth the hassle. Looking at the folder files I'd say there is not much room for optimising the base size. So I've opted to move this.
Last edited by despuit; 23 Jan 2015 at 14:09.