So a relative of mine dropped off a relatively new laptop that was giving him some problems like programs crashing and that wonderful BSOD experience while he goes away on a trip. YAY!!! He has fun while I have work....
Anywaste... this is a 15.6" Dell Latitude 3540 and I re-installed Win 8 Pro and from the recovery partition and I have upgraded it to Win 8.1. Plus installed some programs to help keep his laptop safe from viruses. All updates have been applied. Also installed are Excel and Word 2007 from the disc he provided me. All together a total of 23.9GB is being used.
That 23.9GB of disc space does not include the pagefile which I set to the D: drive and the Hibernation file (since I deactivated hibernate). I will note that deactiviting hibernate causes the boot time to increase from 33 seconds to 49 seconds. It has been documented that hibernate does in fact affect boot time with Win 8 so I suppose I will enable it. He does not use that feature though.
I did the typical Disk Cleanup step and selected "Clean up system files". I also cleaned up the WinSXS folder using the DISM command in the console. And I also installed CCleaner to clean up all that other wonderful crap.
The programs I installed takes up less than 1GB in total so that drops the Win 8.1 footprint down to 22.9GB. The only crap software that came installed is a Cyberlink suite which takes about 1.2GB of storage space. I didn't uninstall it 'cause I don't know if he uses it. That drops the Win 8.1 foot print to about 21.7GB.
Looking at a list of programs to uninstall from within CCleaner, there is really nothing to uninstall. The only bloatware is that CyberLink suite I mentioned. The only "Dell software" is Dell Touchpad (I think he needs that) and Dell Backup and Recovery (umm.... sounds useful).... Everything else includes MS Visual some device drivers and the stuff I installed.
So... Is a 21.7GB big for Win 8.1? I sure think so. How big is (or was) your fresh install of Win 8?
Any suggestions to further trim the Win 8 fat? Or does 21.7GB sound about right?
Anywaste... this is a 15.6" Dell Latitude 3540 and I re-installed Win 8 Pro and from the recovery partition and I have upgraded it to Win 8.1. Plus installed some programs to help keep his laptop safe from viruses. All updates have been applied. Also installed are Excel and Word 2007 from the disc he provided me. All together a total of 23.9GB is being used.
That 23.9GB of disc space does not include the pagefile which I set to the D: drive and the Hibernation file (since I deactivated hibernate). I will note that deactiviting hibernate causes the boot time to increase from 33 seconds to 49 seconds. It has been documented that hibernate does in fact affect boot time with Win 8 so I suppose I will enable it. He does not use that feature though.
I did the typical Disk Cleanup step and selected "Clean up system files". I also cleaned up the WinSXS folder using the DISM command in the console. And I also installed CCleaner to clean up all that other wonderful crap.
The programs I installed takes up less than 1GB in total so that drops the Win 8.1 footprint down to 22.9GB. The only crap software that came installed is a Cyberlink suite which takes about 1.2GB of storage space. I didn't uninstall it 'cause I don't know if he uses it. That drops the Win 8.1 foot print to about 21.7GB.
Looking at a list of programs to uninstall from within CCleaner, there is really nothing to uninstall. The only bloatware is that CyberLink suite I mentioned. The only "Dell software" is Dell Touchpad (I think he needs that) and Dell Backup and Recovery (umm.... sounds useful).... Everything else includes MS Visual some device drivers and the stuff I installed.
So... Is a 21.7GB big for Win 8.1? I sure think so. How big is (or was) your fresh install of Win 8?
Any suggestions to further trim the Win 8 fat? Or does 21.7GB sound about right?