Windows eats up space! How do I get back space?

[cristiancjb]

Hi
I have low space on my C: drive which is a problem now since it seems as though Lightroom needs to use some space there to work. Anyway, is Windows 7 really supposed to take up so much space? The windows map is 15 Gb big!!! What takes so much space and how can I make windows take up less space? Seems as though there should be ways to optimize this because if feels like windows just grows and grows!
All of your help is very very appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

 

[Golden]

15GB is pretty normal.



You can try turning off hibernation. From an elevated command prompt, type powercfg -h off

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html

 

[cristiancjb]

what happens after hibernation is turned off? Why does it relieve space and when it's on, why does it take up plenty of space?
Best regards

 

[Golden]

Extract from tutorial:



Read through it to understand hibernation.

 

[4wd]

Yes, 15 Gb is fine, and disable hibernation if you don't need\use it (use sleep instead).

And check the size of the pagefile (some reading), use a min\max setting, with a low min, and all will work well. & move any large user files (videos etc) to another drive.

Wont' harm experimenting with hibernation & pagefile (as opposite to attempting any windows shrinking, which will most likely result in many, many posts here asking for help!)

 

[cristiancjb]

no permission

Sorry, I'm a noob but I don't seem to be able to get admin permission to disable hibernate feature with the command prompt. I followed this instruction but it seem as though I could not really do it as such. I have only one user in the computer so I don't even know why I automatically cannot have full control...

 

[computergeekguy]

Open the Start Menu, click on All Programs and Accessories, right click on Command Prompt, and click on Run as administrator.

OR

Open the Start Menu, type cmd in the search box, right click on cmd.exe (at top), and click on Run as administrator

This will give you administrator privileges.

You may now continue with goldens suggestion.

type powercfg -h off

 

[cristiancjb]

haha, it was not harder than that! Thank you guys, you are the best!

 

[computergeekguy]

Your welcome. Glad it worked out

 

[Golden]

 

[AddRAM]

1) Turn off hibernation
2) Turn off page file
3) Turn off system restore

These are the 3 things you can do to gain space.

Also, windows update backups can be deleted.

Or simply get a larger hard drive.

 

[Britton30]

To illuminate what my colleagues have said. The w7 OS in and of itself will occupy 12GB-20GB depending on the version , Languages packs, and updates installed. Everything else is what we users add.
I believe Lightroom will allocate a large temporary scratch space while you have it open. You may consider another drive to store personal data on and move it off the C\ Drive if you're getting a low space warning often.