How big is your Vista Windows folder?

[solardog]

[Hurmoth]

17GB - Of course, I've had Vista installed since it was available on TechNet back in 2006.

[Roger H. Veteran]

I installed Vista SP1 Business (clean install disc from MSDN)

8.04 GB (8,636,707,567 bytes)

That's with all my applications and all installed. Out of 20GB i have 11.5GB free.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Vista Home Premium - fully up-to-date, no modifications at all - just a plain install with apps. 6.94gb

[DavidM]

10.9 gb, 58757 files and 10704 folders. Re-installed less than 2 weeks ago from my HP "bloatware" restore disk, with all current updates.

EDIT: Sorry thought I'd add it's Vista Home Prem.

[39 Thieves]

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.

If you want to remove those files, then in a command window type 'vsp1cln.exe' (without the quotes) and press Enter

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

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.

The size of the installation is excessive though IMO, even with hard drives costing practically next to nothing.

I'd love to see MS offer more advanced options when installing Windows to let you remove things you don't need - Lessen the need for external apps like Vlite.

Although even if MS did offer more options, I'd still opt for Vlite just because MS would never allow you to rip out some of the things it does.

However it would be a step in the right direction for those not wanting to use Vlite :yes:

[Rebdomine]

Mine is 5,8 GB

Windows Vista x64 Ultimate

[cpu killer]

9.9GB, Lenovo OEM Home Premium.

[Eric Veteran]

9.4GB on Vista HP 32-bit.

[Rapid Dr3am]

If you want to remove those files, then in a command window type 'vsp1cln.exe' (without the quotes) and press Enter

You just became my hero. +1 Internets to you, sir.

[chronic871]

about 14GB

[DigitalE]

Mine right now is 9.09 GB

[EnzoFX]

The concept of vlite/nlite has always intrigued me, but then I tell myself, well I'd only be saving a couple of Gigs.

[Aerrow]

Vista Home Premium 8.43 Gigabytes

[Julius Caro]

8,09 GB, vista business sp1

[Pupik]

If you want to remove those files, then in a command window type 'vsp1cln.exe' (without the quotes) and press Enter

From 11gb, mine Windows folder now dropped to nine.

Not a big space saver, but still nice.

[CloudEngineer]

15gb or so

[Athlonite]

14.6GB with 50,943 files and 9697 folders with 4.3GB in the winsxs folder alone

Vista Ultimate SP1 x86 fully updated

[KoL Veteran]

14.5GB Vista Ultimate SP1 x86

[Zygar]

11.3GB Vista Home Premium SP1

[deactivated01032015]

4,81GB on Server 2008 with Desktop Experience feature enabled.

Clearly a sign that Vista is heavily bloated.

[leesmithg]

[BigRico]

9.21GB

Vista Ultimate

[giga Veteran]

..kidding. About 8GB.