I got extra space from not having the recovery partition, or HP_tools and I've already looked and got the HP webcam software, I'm already on my network. I did follow the guide, I collected all the installers and got Sercuirty Essentials.
Good work, Tom.
Thanks :) I think there actually is a speed difference even though I disabled things from starting up in msconfig. Thanks again for your help :)
Keeping a clean boot will assure best performance, as well as the other maintenance tips in the tutorial.
I'll run through them again later. In the meantime, the volume light is still showing up red, even when not muted. Just after the clean install it was white showing it wasn't mute, but didn't turn red. There's still only 1 OS on at the moment, but I'll install them later.
And should I expand the system reserved partition?
Why do you think you should expand it?
Try the sound driver and any software posted on the computer or Sound Device Support Downloads webpage.
The System Reserved partition officially needs 50MB free for shadow storage when making Windows System Images. I think it may be more like 40MB in practice. Sometimes it can get clogged up with USN Journal files that prevent you making an image. Expanding it is one solution but until you have the issue I suggest you leave things alone. This is the typical error you would get and here are the options:
https://www.sevenforums.com/backup-re...x81000019.html
I think that because before the clean install it was 199MB, and Petey7 said that the size it was was perfect.
And as it so happens I have just had a problem backing up, something to do with making a shadow copy and there not being enough space to do so.
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