How big is your Vista Windows folder?

[DJ-Light]

6.22GB

Vlited + 3 months of use.

[freeza]

Vista ultimate x64. Why? i have no IDEA

It was a lot smaller when i first installed vista.

[x-byte]

17.4GB

[mikesingh]

Basically 16GB even. (15.8GB)

Vista Ultimate x64 SP1.

[troist]

Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 with 17.9GB taken up... Its not even been installed for a month yet :/

[theyarecomingforyou]

16.4GB - VistaU64 SP1

[darkpuma]

Vista ultimate x64. Why? i have no IDEA

It was a lot smaller when i first installed vista.

go to disk cleanup, see what it finds. Also clean your prefetch perhaps...

[Dc'1]

6.45Gb, Home Premium SP1 x86

[Kenji]

Vista Ultimate x86.

Installed on 30th of Jan 07.

[redvamp128]

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.

[CrashG]

Entire C: drive is 15.2Gb (used space)

Just the Windows folder is 10.3Gb (Vista Ultimate x86 + SP1 and updates)

[zhangm Supervisor]

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.

[bruNo_]

11Gb

Vista Home Premium

[CrashG]

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. :)

[Raa]

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 :(

[CrashG]

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.

Edited July 3, 2008 by CrashGordon

[Dance.]

12.4 GB ~ 55,373 Files, 10,925 Folders.

[Max Veteran]

9.5GB Vista Ultimate x86. Install date of January 2007.

[weirdalex]

10.7 GB (11,557,740,544 bytes)

52,265 Files, 9,719 Folders

Vista Ultimate SP1

[primexx]

Ultimate x86 since 2 months after retail release. ~12 gigs.

[chrisj1968]

mine is 9.23 GB Vista Business 32bit erm with SP1 as well.

[FiB3R]

No change. Still 13.6GB after running disk clean up and ccleaner

Did get a ton of disk space back though.

[kl33per]

16.1 GB on Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 (x64, English, No Language Packs).

It was installed from a disc with SP1 integrated, so there are no SP1 backup files.

Edited July 3, 2008 by kl33per

[mad_onion]

18.1 GBs lol. i don't know why i would care though, i have over 1TB of space.

[AllMac]

14.0GB 68,000 Files