Im going back to Vista...

[Exodus]

Heres why, on the 29th August I would have been running Vista on this laptop for exactly a year. I have two partitions, one for my OS and one for everything else. At the minute my Windows 7 partition has a red bar underneath it, meaning im running out of space. I never got this with Vista even with the huge amount of programs installed along with a few GB of pictures, documents, music, videos, etc. Something which I have not much of in 7, definitely nowhere near the amount I had on Vista.

So whys it taking up so much space? My point is I had Vista for almost a year and I never was close to running out of space on my OS partition yet ive had 7 for a few weeks, its ridiculous.

Rant over.

Discuss

 

[masterB]

Oh no, don't do that!
Try disable System Restore. Or delete some of the restore points.
I don't see anything taking place after a new install of W7.

 

[Exodus]

I honestly liked Vista, never had a problem in the 11 months. I did on my desktop but not this laptop.

Also, 7 just doesnt seem to any faster then Vista was. And my Vista was 32-bit and filled with junk.

 

[masterB]

Just keep Vista for couple more years and jump straight on Windows 8.
I skipped Vista and I am on W7 now.

 

[KazeNoKoe23]

Go for it. Not like there's anything wrong with Vista, although something is using up that space and it isn't the OS. 7 uses about as much HD space for an install as Vista does, so there's something else there that's hogging your space. Of course, I'm going with the assumption that both your partitions are the same size.

 

[bala7]

You are ultimately making a wrong decision, to be more precise windows 7 takes only 7GB in disk( u have to disable hibernation and move pagefile to some other drive). Do you think is there any other OS that uses less disk space than 7????????

 

[harpua]

It's probably a windows.old file and a system restore that's been configured (perhaps by default) to use more disk space than necessary. Would be simple to fix by running disk cleanup and adjusting the amount of space allocated to system restore, but sounds like the OP has made up his/her mind.

For a kind of ridiculous reason, imo, but each to their own.

I mean there may be valid reasons for sticking with Vista (such as not wanting to spend the money on 7) but 7 using too much space compared to Vista is not one of them.

 

[pparks1]

When you installed Windows 7...did it keep behind the windows.old directory with all of your other stuff. I cannot think of a good reason why Windows 7 would be eating so much more diskspace than Vista...that's certainly not characteristic of my install.

Edit: lets try not to flame or attack the OP..but rather help him try to find out where the disk space has went. It's likely to be a simple configuration change or an option that the OP is not aware of. If I were you, I wouldn't give up on 7 quite yet.

 

[KazeNoKoe23]

You are ultimately making a wrong decision, to be more precise windows 7 takes only 7GB in disk( u have to disable hibernation and move pagefile to some other drive). Do you think is there any other OS that uses less disk space than 7????????

Everything before Vista uses less disk space than 7.

 

[masterB]

Do you think is there any other OS that uses less disk space than 7????????

Everything before Vista uses less disk space than 7.

 

[Joshatdot]

Heres why, on the 29th August I would have been running Vista on this laptop for exactly a year. I have two partitions, one for my OS and one for everything else. At the minute my Windows 7 partition has a red bar underneath it, meaning im running out of space. I never got this with Vista even with the huge amount of programs installed along with a few GB of pictures, documents, music, videos, etc. Something which I have not much of in 7, definitely nowhere near the amount I had on Vista.

So whys it taking up so much space? My point is I had Vista for almost a year and I never was close to running out of space on my OS partition yet ive had 7 for a few weeks, its ridiculous.

Rant over.

Discuss

I can agree with you abit on this...I've been noticing my W7 HDD has been slowly over the last week or so growing. I just checked C:\Windows folder size, and its just under 11.9GB!! I checked my XP Windows folder and its only 2.9GB.

 

[MUff1N]

I have no idea exactly what's cause your HD's to be eaten up but it's not W7 doing it... :sarc:
I've been at the same size now since Jan which is 16Gbs & that is including ALL of my programs.
The OS by itself takes up very little space at all.

 

[ExNavy11]

My Windows folder is taking up nearly 12 GB. System Volume Info is at almost 20 but that is due to the percentage of HDD space allowed for System Restore and such.
Then the other big chunks are the pagefile and hibrefil

12 GB seems like a lot for the system files/folder under Windows. I think it may have to do with being x64 system. Maybe not.

 

[eli2k]

Just to add my experience, I installed Win7 x32 under VMWare, and it takes up less than 8gb (not sure which files in VMWare to count). I don't know if VMWare does compression on its disk, seems unlikely since that would degrade performance.

 

[bala7]

Ya, u r right!!!

 

[swarfega]

12gb is nothing these days.

@exodus: what size hard drive do you have? Maybe its time to get bigger ones. Theyre dirt cheap now. You can pick up a 1Tb drive for around £50.

 

[M YANCEY]

After running W7 I would not go back vista. W7 is a lot faster and smaller OS less overhead. Something is wrong if W7 is slower than vista you need to do a system restore..I have been running W7 sence it came out now I am running W7RC 64BIT and I have not had any problems with the OS at all...

 

[Orbital Shark]

The biggest question is how much HDD space was allocated when creating the partition for Se7en?

It would seem that shrinking the Vista partition and increasing 7's would be the logical choice.

   Tip

Always perform a disk defrag before shrinking any partition to get the highest possible results

 

[EarlZ]

On my system, Vista x64 took a significantly higher disk space... something like 20GB's free from my 50GB partition ( with all the stuff installed ) with 7 i get about 30GB's free with the very same amount of programs installed.

 

[Muad Dib]

Heres why, on the 29th August I would have been running Vista on this laptop for exactly a year. I have two partitions, one for my OS and one for everything else. At the minute my Windows 7 partition has a red bar underneath it, meaning im running out of space. I never got this with Vista even with the huge amount of programs installed along with a few GB of pictures, documents, music, videos, etc. Something which I have not much of in 7, definitely nowhere near the amount I had on Vista.

So whys it taking up so much space? My point is I had Vista for almost a year and I never was close to running out of space on my OS partition yet ive had 7 for a few weeks, its ridiculous.

Rant over.

Discuss

You REALLY need to provide more info and details if you are interested in some targeted help.

Like maybe, how big it the Win7 partition? How much is used? These might be salient data points.

Download and install the free Treesize JAM Software - Windows Freeware

Might give a clue as to what is using up space.

But if you don't want the "hassle" or expense of changing, Vista is a perfectly good OS. Personally, I like it. It is not as good as Win7 IMO, but there will be MANY who don't switch or wait to switch.