Thanks for those tips... by reducing my pagefile, I was able to get down to 26.78GB... that's probably going to be my number or the approximate range that I will stay in unless I start uninstalling apps from C: and reinstalling on other drives/partitions. Don't think I'll go there, I'm pretty happy with 27GB.
Disabling hibernation using the powercfg -h off command eliminates the hiberfile, right? I have already done that.
Yup running powercfg -h off removes the hiberfil and if you check the shutdown options, Hibernate is now gone.
The hiberfile thing is easy to check. If you press Start, hibernation should no more be an option where you have Sleep, Shut down, Restart, etc.
whs, I've managed to get down to 23.25GB and that's with all of my apps installed on to C:!
Question: I noticed that after being booted-up and logged on for while, that number actually goes up in to the 25GB range; would those 2 added GB be a result of the pagefile, or is there something else going on in the background that I just don't know about?
Also, in your previous response you suggested changing the pagefile to 2GB, which I did... what do you set the "Initial Size (MB)" to? At first I set both to 2GB, but later read in another article that it's good to set a range, i.e. between 1-2GB; so that's what I ended up doing (see snip). What's your preference on "Initial Size" setting?
Regardless, I believe my system is as optimized as it's gonna get, and I'm ready to start using Macrium on a regular basis.
1. The additional space usage may be from restore points. Open an elevated Command Prompt and run his command: vssadmin list shadowstorage - then look for the Allocated number. See whether that accounts for the missing space. Watch what the Maximum is. If it is too big for your taste, we'll reduce it.
2. I never set a from-to. Just 2GB in both cases.
3. 23.25GB is probably as good as it gets. Now you have space to run e.g. a virtual machine - I sometimes ran 2 virtual machines (Windows 8 and Ubuntu) with 10GBs left as freespace. Have a look how fast my Windows 8 booted from the virtual partition (this is real time): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAJeKCeXlUU
I have my restore points turned-off and plan on using my system image if I ever have a problem; I've got the whole process down to 6-7 minutes for a system restore.
Regarding Allocated Shadow Storage space, what would 2.982GB be considered: high, low or some where in between?
The current 2.9 allocated is not a problem. But your maximum is high. I would reduce it to 10%. Here is the command:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=10%
That's a nice video, whs. There seems to be a natural progression here... I went from not really paying attention to any of this stuff to where I'm at now looking in to virtual machines (which I still only have an inkling of understanding) and maybe adding a Windows 8 OS to play around on...
I'm back... digging in to this a little deeper, I discovered this Shadow Copy Storage information is for my M: drive, not C:
This is a 500GB System Imaging partition on a second internal HDD. I believe (I could be wrong about this), that since I have turned-off System Protection, I do not show any Shadow Copy Storage space for C:
Any way, is there any benefit in keeping this on and at 30% on this second drive? As far as I can tell, there is no impact on my C: drive.
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