How big is your Vista Windows folder?

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redvamp128

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Vista ultimate x64. Why? i have no IDEA

It was a lot smaller when i first installed vista.

Could be any number of things.

Updates

Installed programs. (windows likes to keep copies of msi files if needed for repairs.)

Driver Cache-

Restore Points.

That is probably a few reasons the size increased.

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Could be any number of things.

Updates

Installed programs. (windows likes to keep copies of msi files if needed for repairs.)

Driver Cache-

Restore Points.

That is probably a few reasons the size increased.

My bet is that much of the space is taken up by the SP1 backup files.

Mine is around 9 GB. Who cares, I have a 200 GB primary partition.

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mine is 12.8GB, and i think its well worth it. Vista is amazing.

My c drive has 147GB used space, so my lovely vista isnt takin hardly any of it up itself.

I have 34.9Gb for the C: partition. and even with all my apps and what not, it's only 44% full. I agree, Vista is pretty sweet. :)

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CrashG

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Too bloody big!! I've heard a lot of complaints about this.

It's just an operating system FFS. I remember when I did a W2K install, was around 1.2gb, XP was ~2gb I think.

How things change, not always for the better :(

Still bashing Vista I see. :rolleyes:

There are a lot of programs that have been added, so there is no need for 3'rd party software, and various other things that take up more space. I'm not using much more space than I did on a similar XP Pro setup on this same machine. I'll say that Dreamscene is most of my added space usage.

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