I have noticed that Ultimate installed on a blank hard drive will use about
15GB including the pagefile and hibernation file in a system with 2GB of
memory - the minimum useful amount. I think more of the cabs are retained
to help with adding new options and recovery, but I am not sure about this.
I just never looked and can't believe the OS has increased that much in
size.
"PaulB" <PaulB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I think you are going to find that VISTA is a large operating system
> (particularly Ultimate). Disk space is cheap.
> --
> Paul
>
>
> "Tom McDonald" wrote:
>
>> I upgraded from XP Pro to Vista RC2. I was looking on my drive and
>> noticed
>> that the windows folder is 9GB. Are there any files or subfolders that
>> can
>> be safely removed in order to reduce the size of this? One of the
>> subfolders
>> called winsxs is 3GB with 4984 subfolders and from what I understand we
>> aren't supposed to remove anything from there. That leaves 6GB still. The
>> windows temp file is empty.
>>
>>