How much space does windows 7 take up on a 120GB SSD drive?

[jonbam]

Hi

I have 53.6GB free space on a 120GB SSD drive

How much space does windows 7 take up?

My PCS PC came with a windows 7 DVD disk.

Is there a program that can tell me which programs are taking up the space?


If I reinstalled the OS would it take up less space?

thanks

Jonathan

 

[SpyderTracks]

You can use windirstat to view what's taking up space:
http://windirstat.info

 

[jonbam]

The PCS PC is 1 year & 3months old.

 

[jonbam]

Problem with installing windirstat.info

Program may not of installed correctly? The program appears to be working ok? Should I reinstall it?

http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s579/jbaccrington/compatibilityassistantImage1_zpsd140b294.jpg (Error Message)


http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s579/jbaccrington/windirstatp2Image1_zps796d4a08.jpg (software scan results)

 

[SpyderTracks]

That's installed fine.

 

[Androcles]

Hi
How much space does windows 7 take up on a 120GB SSD drive?

Exactly the same amount it takes up on any other hard drive

Sorry couldn't resist that hehe. Windows 7 depending on other software or updates will take up roughly 15 to 20gb space on a hard drive (64 bit home version).

 

[Cadwah]

I found that a lot of space on mine was being taken up by the Pagefile and the hibernation saves.

 

[jonbam]

What are Pagefile and hibernation?

 

[keynes]

Try checking this:
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?14728-SSD-Management

What are Pagefile and hibernation?

You can find information on those just by using google.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation_(computing)

 

[badwhippet]

I found a clean install of Windows 7 Pro took up about 24Gb of a 128Gb drive when new (I added some additional Windows features like IIS for web development work). I thought this drive was ideal because I'd be installing all games and programs on a larger drive (and did so), and I also move all my email and Library folders to another drive for backup purposes (documents, pictures and such).

However, after two years, 90Gb is full. I cleaned out all temporary files and bloat but it didn't make a huge dent. The problem is that a lot of games and programs dump into the "C:\Users" directories, and after a long period they can bloat (along with all the various Visual Basic run-times and such, and anything else that's hard-coded to install to the C drive). As a result, I bought a larger drive for Windows 8 in case that eventually starts to suffer the same fate.