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What can I remove from Win7 for small install size?
I have an ultrabook with a 18.6GiB SSD and a 500GB HDD that I will have just made a fresh install of Win7 onto. I installed Win7 onto the 20GB SSD in order to gain speed, and I will use the 500GB HDD primarily for data.
It's current state is: fresh Win7 install (result was ~2GiB free), then disabled hibernation (then 4.2GiB free). Default User Profiles ("\users") have been redirected to the HDD, but that does not change the 4.2GiB free SSD yet.
I have seen a few posts where people have reduced their installs to 6GB, but they seem to be tossing things out everything including Notepad and Windows Time, but I do not want to be that ruthless as I still want Win7 to function normally, but just without some of it's "bloatware".
Misc Notes:
-the Win7 install disc had SP1 slipstreamed into it, as well as all drivers (I used RT7Lite).
-I will install Comodo, Avast, VLC, Firefox, and Thunderbird, so I will not use the Windows Firewall, Windows Antivirus, Windows Media Player, IE, or Outlook Express.
-I apply all my patches manually, so I will not be using Windows Update (can it be deleted, and would that save any decent space?).
-I do not care about themes etc.
-I do care about security, and use "Group Policy Editor" for GPO, and "Microsoft Management Console (MMC)".
While I know how to turn off the features I do not use, I do not know which files to delete to save the space of the feature I am not using, so any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
Lastly, if you know of large chunks of space that can only be saved by making a tweaked ISO with RT7Lite and doing a fresh install rather than trying to delete things after the install, please let me know.