So Much Disk Space

I bought a new HP laptop last week. This is the first time I used
VISTA. I'm shocked just how much disk space all the software is using,
approximately 40 gigabytes on the C drive and 9 gigabytes on the
recovery partition. They put a lot of junk-ware on this thing. But I
removed as much as I could. But of 137 gigabytes of disk space on C,
there is only 96.1 gigabytes free. The C drive on my XP Pro desktop
only has about 20 gigabytes of used disk space allocated with a lot more
software installed. And the laptop is only using the home version. Is
there any way to free up more space?

Also if I were to reinstall VISTA from the recovery disks, would all
that evaluation-ware also be reinstalled?

Thanks.

Use of the Recovery disks would reinstall all the junk you just uninstalled.

Vista doesn't use up 40gb so you must still have a lot of bloatware on
there.... if you have not uninstalled a Symantec or Norton product, that's
going to be some of it, a good antivirus software doesn't take up much at
all, I use NOD32v (www.eset.com) and it takes up 24mb in Program Files.
Microsoft Office takes up only 509mb. My Windows folder takes up just under
14gb.
--
Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows

"Don" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I bought a new HP laptop last week. This is the first time I used VISTA.
>I'm shocked just how much disk space all the software is using,
>approximately 40 gigabytes on the C drive and 9 gigabytes on the recovery
>partition. They put a lot of junk-ware on this thing. But I removed as
>much as I could. But of 137 gigabytes of disk space on C, there is only
>96.1 gigabytes free. The C drive on my XP Pro desktop only has about 20
>gigabytes of used disk space allocated with a lot more software installed.
>And the laptop is only using the home version. Is there any way to free up
>more space?
>
> Also if I were to reinstall VISTA from the recovery disks, would all that
> evaluation-ware also be reinstalled?
>
> Thanks.

On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:48:54 -0400, Don <>
wrote:

>Also if I were to reinstall VISTA from the recovery disks, would all
>that evaluation-ware also be reinstalled?

Absolutely.

You could create a recovery DVD from the files in that partition and
then do away with the partition completely if you like.

Check your system for instructions on how to create that disc.

That exercise just liberated 17 gigabytes of disk space believe it or
not. No doubt there is more unwanted software on this machine that I
could get rid of.


leap frog vista wrote:
> use the disk cleanup (in the search box on the start menu type disk
> cleanup and run the icon that it finds)
>
> then select the "files from all users of this computer" option
>
> select C (its already selected) and press ok
>
> after a few moments a window will appear, go to the MORE OPTIONS TAB,
> and click on the second button that says:
>
> system restore and shadow copies PRESS THE CLEANUP BUTTON
>
> it will clear up lots of space..
>
> compare the before and after space and if you can report back, Im just
> curious
>
>
>
> "Don" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> I bought a new HP laptop last week. This is the first time I used
>> VISTA. I'm shocked just how much disk space all the software is using,
>> approximately 40 gigabytes on the C drive and 9 gigabytes on the
>> recovery partition. They put a lot of junk-ware on this thing. But I
>> removed as much as I could. But of 137 gigabytes of disk space on C,
>> there is only 96.1 gigabytes free. The C drive on my XP Pro desktop
>> only has about 20 gigabytes of used disk space allocated with a lot
>> more software installed. And the laptop is only using the home
>> version. Is there any way to free up more space?
>>
>> Also if I were to reinstall VISTA from the recovery disks, would all
>> that evaluation-ware also be reinstalled?
>>
>> Thanks.
>