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My Windows folder is 24.1 GB. I'm not far off from yours and I have a large backlog of updates.
My Windows folder is 24.1 GB. I'm not far off from yours and I have a large backlog of updates.
Sorry for the late reply. DriverStore is around 7 GB for me, is that unusually high?
One possibility: How to get free disk space back after installing Windows 8.1 Spring Update 1 (Feature Pack)
Rats, never mind, that is for Windows 8. I don't think Windows 7 DISM has that capability.
Disappointing. There should be a way to reduce DriverStore right? I feel most of the space is from old Nvidia drivers or something.
Yep, FileRepository is what holds basically the entire 7 GB.
I downloaded a DriverStore explorer to take a look at what drivers are actually stored there, and I found a lot of old Razer and Nvidia drivers.
I can apparently delete these old drivers but I'm not proficient with messing around with system32.
I have a .csv file of all the drivers if you'd like to see that.
I don't know of a way to safely clear out old files from there.
All good, I made another thread in the Drivers forum. Thanks for helping me diagnose the problem though!
Read through this tutorial by Brink.
A lot of good ideas but you probable won't need to do all of them.
Hard Disk Space - Free Up and Recover
60 gig ssd is very small. Not much room to work with. Windows 7 needs about 10% free space to work properly. I wouldn't use anything smaller than a 120 gb.
These days 120, 240 and 500 gb ssd's are priced right.