deleting stuff i dont need

[jekylhyde]

Hi
win8.1 takes me about 25Gb
how can i delete components that i don't need?
thanks

 

[amilio]

You can't delete them. Deleting them will just ruin your Windows. Please increase your storage capacity.

 

[USAFRet]

Hi
win8.1 takes me about 25Gb
how can i delete components that i don't need?
thanks

And as time goes by, the OS will grow larger and larger. Updates.

Is 25GB a critical issue? What size is the hard drive?

 

[Solandri]

Honestly, there isn't a lot to uninstall. The Windows installation itself is only about 11 GB if I remember right. Most of the extra space is taken up by the way Microsoft updates DLLs. They keep a copy of every old DLL around just in case some program won't work with the new DLL and needs the old one. That and uninstall files for updates.

The option to uninstall Windows components is right next to the option to uninstall programs. You can uninstall stuff you don't need, but don't expect to save much space.

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-add-or-remove-unwanted-windows-features-programs-or-apps

You can delete update installation files, but that permanently removes your ability to uninstall a particular update if it's causing you problems. Still, if you're critically short on disk space, this is probably a better option (assuming you've never done it before).

https://www.eightforums.com/threads/windows-update-cleanup-in-windows-8.44274/

Another thing that might be eating up space is System Restore. In Win 7 Microsoft let it default to using up to 50% of your C: drive. In Win 10 it's turned off by default. I dunno what the default is for Win 8. But it's worth checking out.

https://www.winhelp.us/configure-system-restore-in-windows.html

A final thing you might want to do if your boot drive is a SSD is to disable hibernate. Even if you don't use hibernate, the hibernate file is used for the faux shutdown introduced with Windows 8. When you shutdown Win 8/10, it doesn't actually shut down. It dumps programs from RAM, then (with just Windows loaded) writes the memory state to the hibernate file. The idea is that reading the memory state back from the single hibernate file is a lot quicker than reading a gazillion different files Windows needs to do a full boot. Which is true for HDDs, but not for SSDs. Disabling hibernate disables this "feature" and deletes the permanent hibernate file which can be as large as the amount of RAM you have installed.

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2082951/disable-hibernation-windows-windows.html

Run WinDirStat on the drive as well to see what programs or data are eating up large amounts of space. You may want to consider moving those to a second drive, or archiving them to an external drive if you don't use them much.

https://windirstat.net/

 

[jekylhyde]

Honestly, there isn't a lot to uninstall. The Windows installation itself is only about 11 GB if I remember right. Most of the extra space is taken up by the way Microsoft updates DLLs. They keep a copy of every old DLL around just in case some program won't work with the new DLL and needs the old one. That and uninstall files for updates.

The option to uninstall Windows components is right next to the option to uninstall programs. You can uninstall stuff you don't need, but don't expect to save much space.

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-add-or-remove-unwanted-windows-features-programs-or-apps

You can delete update installation files, but that permanently removes your ability to uninstall a particular update if it's causing you problems. Still, if you're critically short on disk space, this is probably a better option (assuming you've never done it before).

https://www.eightforums.com/threads/windows-update-cleanup-in-windows-8.44274/

Another thing that might be eating up space is System Restore. In Win 7 Microsoft let it default to using up to 50% of your C: drive. In Win 10 it's turned off by default. I dunno what the default is for Win 8. But it's worth checking out.

https://www.winhelp.us/configure-system-restore-in-windows.html

A final thing you might want to do if your boot drive is a SSD is to disable hibernate. Even if you don't use hibernate, the hibernate file is used for the faux shutdown introduced with Windows 8. When you shutdown Win 8/10, it doesn't actually shut down. It dumps programs from RAM, then (with just Windows loaded) writes the memory state to the hibernate file. The idea is that reading the memory state back from the single hibernate file is a lot quicker than reading a gazillion different files Windows needs to do a full boot. Which is true for HDDs, but not for SSDs. Disabling hibernate disables this "feature" and deletes the permanent hibernate file which can be as large as the amount of RAM you have installed.

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2082951/disable-hibernation-windows-windows.html

Run WinDirStat on the drive as well to see what programs or data are eating up large amounts of space. You may want to consider moving those to a second drive, or archiving them to an external drive if you don't use them much.

https://windirstat.net/

wow thanks for that
(of course if someone else have more ideas - you are welcome!).