How big is your Vista Windows folder?

[Magnolia Man]

9.06 Gb

Windows Vista Home Premium sp-1 (OEM)

[Mouldy Punk]

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

Clearly a sign that Vista is heavily bloated.

Yes exactly, assuming you have some sort of way of calculating how much of the space vista uses is wasted as opposed to being stuff that is actually quite useful.

Would a 100GB program be bloated? What about if it calculated the cure for every disease in the world. Still bloated?

A file/folder size does not reflect anything to do with the quality of the code or the features of the program.

Anyways, that being said, I don't actually have Vista on my machine, but considering the popular racing game GRID is taking up 10GB (+2GB for the replay file) of space, 10-15GB for an entire operating system doesn't sound too bad.

My windows XP folder is only 4.5GB, but baring in mind that XP is now nearly 7 years old, it makes sense that a newer operating system will use more space as space is more readily available now. 7 years ago, the average new desktop PC's hard drive was about 60GB. The hard drives in new desktop PCs today are much bigger, Dell don't even sell desktops with drives smaller than 250GB anymore.

So if you compare the 7%~ (4.5GB install on a 60GB drive) of the drive the Win XP took up all those years ago with the 5%~ (13GB install on a 250GB drive) that Vista takes up on today's hard drives, it's actually using less space when you consider the ratios.

[Olemus]

15.4Gb 82,447 files

Vista Business X64

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Yes exactly, assuming you have some sort of way of calculating how much of the space vista uses is wasted as opposed to being stuff that is actually quite useful.

Would a 100GB program be bloated? What about if it calculated the cure for every disease in the world. Still bloated?

A file/folder size does not reflect anything to do with the quality of the code or the features of the program.

Anyways, that being said, I don't actually have Vista on my machine, but considering the popular racing game GRID is taking up 10GB (+2GB for the replay file) of space, 10-15GB for an entire operating system doesn't sound too bad.

My windows XP folder is only 4.5GB, but baring in mind that XP is now nearly 7 years old, it makes sense that a newer operating system will use more space as space is more readily available now. 7 years ago, the average new desktop PC's hard drive was about 60GB. The hard drives in new desktop PCs today are much bigger, Dell don't even sell desktops with drives smaller than 250GB anymore.

So if you compare the 7%~ (4.5GB install on a 60GB drive) of the drive the Win XP took up all those years ago with the 5%~ (13GB install on a 250GB drive) that Vista takes up on today's hard drives, it's actually using less space when you consider the ratios.

Well, I agree with that. But Server 2008 is based on the same core that Vista.

[Ci7]

15GB and counting .....

vista x64 ultimate

i have deleted the restore point thro (it will be like 25GB of windows folder files )