Reduce windows 7 footprint ssd

Cheetoz [H]ard Gawd. Joined Mar 3, Messages 1, I want to reduce my windows 7 disk footprint to be as small as possible, 12gb is too much. I've googled, but I have not found any useful results. I'm willing to have upto 3gb of space being used by windows, but thats still too much. Joined Dec 11, Messages 4, Install Win 7 starter if you are that worried about it. Gorankar [H]F Junkie.

Joined Jul 19, Messages 10, You could also try Windows embedded if you really want to mess around with it. I must admit I am curious about the why's of your 3GB limit. Sovereign 2[H]4U. Joined Mar 21, Messages 3, If you are willing to experiment and have things possibly break, you can use RT7Lite to attempt to strip it down. However, if you do have such requirements 3GB or less Windows install you really shouldn't be considering Windows it just doesn't fit.

Browser barf! Delete please! Joined Feb 19, Messages 18, Better off sticking with XP then. You can have it fully functional for around 2. Joined Feb 28, Messages 3, So here is my question: In Windows 7, how would someone go about safely cleaning up the large amount of used space found within the winsxs folder? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. In reply to Debbie -'s post on June 14, Hello Debbie. Thanks for the response. Now including the guide to clean up dump files. Hope that helps! If someone is not very familiar with the topic probably why they are here looking for help this only adds to their frustration and problems.

You have excellent advice and tips, but the grammar errors take so much away. Still a good site overall. Thank you. OP plz disregard this nit picking online loser. I find your article extremely useful and informative. This guy has too much free time in front of a monitor he actually sat there and tried to point out all the grammatical errors.

Next of Windows. Microsoft Announces Windows July 15, Disable Windows Hibernation This will instantly give you back few GB disk space depending on how large your memory is. Reduce Page File Size If you already have a relatively large memory, you can reduce the virtual memory Page File that are being used by your system. Archive Old Files into ZIP archives Yes, this is old school but still works very well if your primary goal is to reduce the disk space usage.