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RhysAndrews wrote:Hi,
I relocated all my user profile stuff to the mechanical drive using the "Location" tab in the properties of each folder.
It shows Local Disk as having 57.5GB used, but if I check the file contents of every root level directory (even with "show hidden items" ticked), it equates to just 25GB.
How can I work out what's taking up all the space?
C-A_99 wrote:No sane person invests in an SSD just to disable hibernate/page file. Disabling or adjusting either or both will just free up minor amounts of space (depending on how much RAM you have; I'd say spending 8 GB out of a small 60 GB SSD for the page file and hibernate file are good uses) only for the OS to eat up again. Windows 7 (which I would guess applies to 8 as well) has a bad tendency to clutter up drives. What I ended up doing was moving the entire Users folder, but that works best on a fresh installation. (Google/search the seven forums for it.) After that, not much can be done, so it's up to identifying installation and temporary files that are cluttering things up.
Chrispy_ wrote:I'm going to assume that the WinSXS folder is still retarded in Windows8.
Microsoft's excuse was "oh, but they're not real files, they're just hardlinks"
In the real world, it still meant you ran out of space on VM's and small SSD's and things still ground to a catastrophic halt.
20GB WinSXS folders are not in the least bit uncommon.
Voldenuit wrote:C-A_99 wrote:No sane person invests in an SSD just to disable hibernate/page file. Disabling or adjusting either or both will just free up minor amounts of space (depending on how much RAM you have; I'd say spending 8 GB out of a small 60 GB SSD for the page file and hibernate file are good uses) only for the OS to eat up again. Windows 7 (which I would guess applies to 8 as well) has a bad tendency to clutter up drives. What I ended up doing was moving the entire Users folder, but that works best on a fresh installation. (Google/search the seven forums for it.) After that, not much can be done, so it's up to identifying installation and temporary files that are cluttering things up.
We must be crazy then because my wife's school laptop has 12 GB of RAM and I've disabled hibernation on it to save 12 GB on her 128 GB SSD. Seeing as win8 + SSD boots up in 10seconds and her standby and battery life are very good, it was worth the sacrifice, especially since the essential programs she needs for school take up a lot of space (AutoCAD alone was 10 GB+ of space).
Flying Fox wrote:Voldenuit wrote:We must be crazy then because my wife's school laptop has 12 GB of RAM and I've disabled hibernation on it to save 12 GB on her 128 GB SSD. Seeing as win8 + SSD boots up in 10seconds and her standby and battery life are very good, it was worth the sacrifice, especially since the essential programs she needs for school take up a lot of space (AutoCAD alone was 10 GB+ of space).
This means users have to save their work and probably should not run the battery bone dry.
just brew it! wrote:Well, they are partially correct in that hard links themselves occupy an insignificant amount of space. For files which are being used elsewhere in the system, the WinSXS links do not contribute meaningfully to disk space usage; the number you're seeing when you look at the size of the WinSXS folder includes a lot of files which are actually being double-counted.
The problem is that all of the files needed to uninstall service packs, etc. are also kept hanging around in case you ever want to roll things back. And these files are also hard-linked from the WinSXS folder.
If you don't care about being able to roll back changes, you can get rid of the unneeded files: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2592038
Voldenuit wrote:C-A_99 wrote:No sane person invests in an SSD just to disable hibernate/page file. Disabling or adjusting either or both will just free up minor amounts of space (depending on how much RAM you have; I'd say spending 8 GB out of a small 60 GB SSD for the page file and hibernate file are good uses) only for the OS to eat up again. Windows 7 (which I would guess applies to 8 as well) has a bad tendency to clutter up drives. What I ended up doing was moving the entire Users folder, but that works best on a fresh installation. (Google/search the seven forums for it.) After that, not much can be done, so it's up to identifying installation and temporary files that are cluttering things up.
We must be crazy then because my wife's school laptop has 12 GB of RAM and I've disabled hibernation on it to save 12 GB on her 128 GB SSD. Seeing as win8 + SSD boots up in 10seconds and her standby and battery life are very good, it was worth the sacrifice, especially since the essential programs she needs for school take up a lot of space (AutoCAD alone was 10 GB+ of space).
Flatland_Spider wrote:WinDirStat (http://windirstat.info/) is a good tool to see what is taking up all of your space visually.
Then there is the Sysinternals du (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 96651.aspx) tool for the command line.
Ryu Connor wrote:You can shrink the hiberfil.sys while retaining it's use by using the following command: powercfg /h /size 50
Flying Fox wrote:I only move Downloads/Desktop/Documents/Music/Pictures/Videos. For AppData and temp folders, moving them to mechanical may defeat the purpose. Browsers and apps do access their caches under your profile, and SSD will speed up those operations. Granted if you only have a smallish SSD then there is not much choice.
RhysAndrews wrote:I have 16GB of RAM, and my computer is a desktop.
I do put my PC to sleep often, and sometimes for a day or more at a time, so I have hybrid sleep on. Power saving is a big thing for me =)
The page file setting is default, would anyone recommend I change it at all? My SSD is 50% full so it's not really a problem right now I just wanted to make sure everything was in order.