Windows 7 after clean install takes up 183gb of space? Whaaaa?

[GratefulDean]

Thanks,

There were three actually. I deleted one but the overall reduction in drive space was not enough for me to believe that these files were causing the issue.

Barefoot Kid, in a post above, gave a link to his tutorial on HDD optimization for a clean OS install. I'd check it out. It was exactly what I needed.

 

[niltomega]

Indeed it is Probably you Windows.old folder. I had the same problem.