My HomePrem computer takes up 19GB. How to slim down?

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  1. Posts : 31
    Win7
       #1

    My HomePrem computer takes up 19GB. How to slim down?


    Hello,
    Our new laptop came with Win7 Home Premium.

    I've just deleted the all restore points (Control Panel/System&Security/System/Advanced_System_settings/System_Protection_tab) and our new comp's hard drive is down to using just 19.2 GB (from 29.5 GB). According to other users (How much space does Win7 HomePrem use on new computer?), a Win 7 Pro used up 6GB; a Win7 Ultimate took 10-12GB.

    I'm using Win 7 Home Premium, but it's using up more GB than the Win7 Pro or Ultimate computers.

    What's going on? The only thing we added was a measly virus scanner. How come we're up to 19 GB (remember, we've already deleted all restore points)?

    What can I do to slim it down?
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  2. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #2

    Probably the shadow copies.

    Computer on desktop

    Click

    C drive

    right click

    Properties

    disc clean up

    System files.

    If not done already you will get a lot of new space.
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  3. Posts : 797
    Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)
       #3

    Did your laptop come with any software pre-installed? Such as trial of something or demo games or any such thing? For example on my C:\ drive I have about 45 GB of used space - that's Windows plus installed software, no user files.

    On the other hand, you got a brand new laptop with only 30 GB hard drive? Or you've got several partitions there?
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  4. Posts : 31
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #4

    I've uninstalled the pre-installed "WildTangent Games" and now used space dropped from 19.3 GB to 18.2. But I wonder if there are some more GB of space I can free up.
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  5. Posts : 31
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #5

    unifex said:
    On the other hand, you got a brand new laptop with only 30 GB hard drive? Or you've got several partitions there?
    The new laptop came with 288 GB Capacity hard drive. There is only one main partition (or is it proper to say "there are no partitions"?).
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  6. Posts : 17,796
    Windows 10, Home Clean Install
       #6

    richc46 said:
    Probably the shadow copies.

    Computer on desktop

    Click

    C drive

    right click

    Properties

    disc clean up

    System files.

    If not done already you will get a lot of new space.
    did you try this
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  7. Posts : 31
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #7

    rich, yes, it removed only a few hundred megabytes.
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  8. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #8

    Hello.


    Here is an excellent tutorial to use to optimize Windows 7, at the link below; also one to use to trim the amount of disk space system restore reserves for its self.

    Optimize Windows 7

    System Protection - Change Disk Space Usage
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  9. Posts : 797
    Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)
       #9

    I must have misunderstood your previous post, where you mentioned 29.5 GB.

    May I ask why are worrying about few GB on a 288 GB hard drive? Are you planning to fill it all up with videos or something?

    Where are all these files are? When you say you've got 19 GB used, is that the whole hard drive usage, or just C:\, or just Windows? You said there is only one single partition, is there also a Recovery disk (or partition)? If yes, are you counting it in your used space?
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  10. Posts : 31
    Win7
    Thread Starter
       #10

    unifex,

    the reason why i wanna slim down is because we are planning on creating a system image on DVDs. We don't want the DVDs to have junk, we want to use the least number of DVDs.

    when I say we've got 19GB used, I mean the complete C drive (with subfolders). There is no recovery disk/partition.
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