Reducing windows 7 install footprint

Reduce Windows 7 Install Size? I decided to try out Windows 7 on my Dell Mini 9. The problem is, of 16GB it's taking most of it, leaving me with under 3GB for my files. While I mostly carry around just text files, I'm wondering if there's a way to uninstall useless Windows stuff like uninstalling language and printer drivers on OS X to shrink the install footprint.

Googling found me ways to shrink the 7 install disk with vLite before I install, but I'm looking for post-install methods; I could reinstall but I really don't want to.

So, anyone have any advice? Formerly Roboman, still awesome. Krane , Sep 7, The biggest gain with removing components is that it will reduce the size.

There are a few files that takes up a lot of space, some of them are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Natural language, Tablet, Help, Speech, Windows media center. Windows 7 Professional uses about - 32 bit, original: 7. Vlite means using my preset file, which is considered safe for Windows 7 yeah the member is banned, but I KNOW it's not because of this post.

I've been using this install daily since april on my only computer with no problems whatsoever. If you know the basics of vlite, you should be able to do it. Here's how my Windows 7 is configured in the vlite preset file, based on the link above. It should work with all versions of W7. How big is a clean install of Windows 7? I installed on a 10GB partition and after install, I had 3. This included the hibernation and page files totaling 1. Ok, i'll install on the 16GB drive and move the pagefile to the 4GB drive..

I think you can, if you change the path Windows uses for it. You might have to go through the registry though? I haven't actually messed with it, but it should be doable. Yeah, I might move the "users" folder to the 4GB drive too, it's a netbook so it's not like we store files on it or anything : but Application Data folders and stuff will load slightly faster :.

And as you know flash doesn't live as long if you keep writing to it. They really should be more clear about how long SSDs will live with all the writes to the pagefile that windows does etc, plus other things now like the indexer and so on.

And I agree, but one of the things Microsoft said about Windows 7 was that it would be very scalable with Netbooks, I plan on testing this theory, it's not like I used the damned thing for anything else so I might as well. Follow the simple steps below:. The paging file takes up plenty of space. The good news is that you can limit the size yourself. Step 6: Uncheck the option: Automatically manage paging size for all drives and after selecting the Custom size option, choose the initial and maximum size for paging file and click on Set and OK.

You can choose one of the above ways or you can even try all of them to free up maximum space. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Site Notice Privacy Policy. Step 2: From the options presented, click on System.