Building a new win7-64 vm for a template for a linked clone vm pool.
Just have windows 7 installed plus updates and there is almost 23GB
used on the HD.
I’ve done the disk cleanup including system files, ccleaner found 1GB,
tried the sxs cleanup, all my googling basically shows me to use the
windows disk cleanup tool.
Anyone have any secrets to freeing up any space on this? I think it’s
rediculous that win7 alone should take almost 23GB of space.
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Stevo
Hi
That’s easy fdisk 
In ccleaner, you have gone through the list no Windows.old directory?
A large hiberfile.sys or hidden directories $W* ?
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malcolmlewis sounds like they ‘said’:
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Hi
That’s easy fdisk ;)[/color]
forgot to mention no fdisk suggestions. =)
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In ccleaner, you have gone through the list no Windows.old directory?
A large hiberfile.sys or hidden directories $W* ?[/color]
Nope, none of those anywhere.
Largest folder is windows, within it, largest folder within it is
winsxs, but not sure how to clean anything up in there if it’s even
possible.
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Stevo
Hi
Maybe these help?
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251565.aspx
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2014/05/13/how-to-clean-up-the-winsxs-directory-and-free-up-disk-space-on-windows-server-2008-r2-with-new-update/
http://www.howtogeek.com/174705/how-to-reduce-the-size-of-your-winsxs-folder-on-windows-7-or-8/
Else your S.O.L it’s windows…get use to it…
I have WinX dual booting, it has a 2.9GB hiberfil.sys and 1.9GB
pagefile.sys, Windows dir is 12GB… rest consumes 7GB…
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malcolmlewis sounds like they ‘said’:
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I have WinX dual booting, it has a 2.9GB hiberfil.sys and 1.9GB
pagefile.sys, Windows dir is 12GB… rest consumes 7GB…[/color]
So my response to malcolmlewis’s comment is…
Ugh…bloatware, really stinks when it’s the OS that’s the most
bloated.
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Stevo