Is my Win 7 size too big?

[bru]

Reading a recent thread where it was said that a Win 7 installation should be roughly 15-18GB got me wondering why mine is so large.

 

[Sardonicus]

Hibernate can use quite a bit of space.
If you don't use hibernate and choose to disable it, you can gain some of your space back.
See Option 1, Step 2.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html

 

[DavidE]

The hibernate file (hiberfil.sys) will be in C:\ (root folder).
It will not be in the C:\Windows folder.

Turning off hibernate will increase free space on the C: partition, but it will not decrease space used by the C:\Windows folder.

 

[bru]

The hibernate file (hiberfil.sys) will be in C:\ (root folder).
It will not be in the C:\Windows folder.

Turning off hibernate will increase free space on the C: partition, but it will not decrease space used by the C:\Windows folder.

Yep. So any ideas why my Win 7 is 8Gb or so larger than it should be?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Your winsxs folder is larger than most. Mine is 8.1 GB.

Do you have a history of installing and uninstalling a lot of programs?

Here are 2 pix; compare to yours.

What are the larger items in your Winsxs folder?

My winsxs folder has 49,000 files totaling 8.1 GB

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Just to back up what ignatzatsonic said about a history of installing and uninstalling a lot of programs. This is a clean install (done a few days ago) size of winsxs with no uninstalls and just my usual programs.



And the whole windows folder



Danny

 

[DavidE]

To go along with what ignatzatsonic and xxxdannyxxx said.

How long have you had Win 7 installed?
I think the Windows folder grows in size over time, especially the winxsx folder.
Do you have a lot of programs installed?
Do you install/uninstall a lot of programs?

Here are 2 Win 7 x64 PC's folder sizes (size on disk) i just checked.
Win 7 was installed apx. 3 years ago.
PC-1 is used a lot more than PC-2, and has more programs installed.

PC-1
Windows folder 25.6 GB
winxsx folder 13.5 GB

PC-2
Windows folder 21.3 GB
winxsx folder 8.55 GB

These folder sizes don't cause any issues for me.

 

[bru]

Where is the extra in winsxs? Individual folders show almost the same as what ignatzasonic showed but somehow the entire winsxs folder is 6GB larger.

I suppose it isn't an issue either if it does grow in size but I wonder why I can't at least account for the extra 6GB in winsxs?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Where is the extra in winsxs? Individual folders show almost the same as what ignatzasonic showed but somehow the entire winsxs folder is 6GB larger.

I suppose it isn't an issue either if it does grow in size but I wonder why I can't at least account for the extra 6GB in winsxs?

How many total files in Windows? I have 78,046.

How many total files in winsxs? I have 49,288.

The size in winsxs is in those tens of thousands of small listings, not in the top 2 or 3.

 

[xxxdannyxxx]

Where is the extra in winsxs? Individual folders show almost the same as what ignatzasonic showed but somehow the entire winsxs folder is 6GB larger.

I suppose it isn't an issue either if it does grow in size but I wonder why I can't at least account for the extra 6GB in winsxs?

I know this isn't what you want to hear but - There isn't really anything to account for, the folder will grow over time and there is nothing you can do about it, its functioning as its suppose to do.
There's lots of good information out there about the winsxs folder and its purpose but this is a good read if you like - Disk Space - Engineering Windows 7 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

Danny

 

[bru]

The size in winsxs is in those tens of thousands of small listings, not in the top 2 or 3.

Those "tens of thousands" would have to add up to over 4GB. It is what it is but it would be nice to see what is taking up the space. That was the purpose of using TreeSize.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Those "tens of thousands" would have to add up to over 4GB. It is what it is but it would be nice to see what is taking up the space. That was the purpose of using TreeSize.

What makes you think TreeSize is NOT showing you what is taking up space?

What makes you think those tens of thousands do NOT add up to over 4 GB?

I have no idea. Just asking. Maybe it is a completely bogus and inaccurate application.

You might want to play around with the DIR sortorder switch at a command prompt.

For instance, this command:

dir /s /o:s

when run from this directory:

c:\windows\winsxs

will sort all files in size order, from smallest to largest, including subdirectories.

I just ran it on my PC. Took about 30 seconds to complete.

 

[karlsnooks]

The size in winsxs is in those tens of thousands of small listings, not in the top 2 or 3.

Those "tens of thousands" would have to add up to over 4GB. It is what it is but it would be nice to see what is taking up the space. That was the purpose of using TreeSize.

See post #10. Follow that link.

 

[bru]

There are 16,203 subfolders in winxs. My math was wrong. Apparently they add up to 11.6GB.

 

[Layback Bear]

I'm simple so I will keep it simple. Winsxs has a very good purpose. I don't care the room it takes. I just leave it alone. Reading the post #10 to me makes it easy to understand the why and what for. I also let Windows 7 take what ever space it need to do the job. So far that works out well for me and my computers.

 

[bru]

I'm simple so I will keep it simple. Winsxs has a very good purpose. I don't care the room it takes. I just leave it alone.

Me too, but I do like to learn. I go back to my original post...I was just wondering.

 

[Layback Bear]

I understand you completely bru I also wonder. That is why post #10 and the site given is so good. My post wasn't directed to you personally or any single person. Many people read these post. I kind of wanted to tell all those that read these post that fooling with such things in my opinion would not be wise. Wondering is a good thing. It's the beginning of the learning process.