Windows 7 ultimate folder nearly 60GB big

[OmgIts AliC]

I have an 120GB (111Gb) SSD and for some reason my windows folder (specifically the winsxs at 20GB) is massive filling over 54% of my SSD. i would guess the problem started when i upgraded from windows 7 home premium to ultimate because i needed to utilise over 16Gb ram. i installed a couple of language packs, but i do not understand why it is so big.

If anyone thinks they have a solution to this please share, but i suppose i am expecting everyone to say format and reinstall .
Thanks in advance!
btw i have hyperx 3k 120GB SSD, 20GB ram, amd FX8350, GTX 760 4GB, asus sabertooth r2.0 and a 1TB HDD

 

[kranthi chevuri]

Get A Cleaner Like CCleaner, It gives You Some Space

 

[ronintexas]

Have you run disk cleanup to remove the update files? I bet that is a majority of the problem....

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup#delete-files-using-disk-cleanup=windows-8

There is a section under "system files" that explains how to remove them.

 

[OmgIts AliC]

Have you run disk cleanup to remove the update files? I bet that is a majority of the problem....

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-files...

There is a section under "system files" that explains how to remove them.

I have tried that and the update files are only about 1GB, and i cleared it, it didn't really change anything

 

[ronintexas]

The Windows folders WINSXS and INSTALLER are temporary folders. Here is how to clean up the WINSXS folder: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795190

The INSTALLER folder should have been cleaned up with disk cleanup (using the advanced options).

 

[OmgIts AliC]

Get A Cleaner Like CCleaner, It gives You Some Space

I used ccleaner and from 1GB free i got 21GB free, but im pretty sure it wasnt all ccleaner as i moved quite a few programs from C:/program files (x86) to my HDD, but thank you, from using windirstat i think it has cleaned up about 10GB. my windows folder is still quite large at 46GB, is that about a normal size for windows 7 ultimate?
i am currently uninstalling lots of the language packs so bear with me , see if that fixes it.

 

[OmgIts AliC]

i have found that the languages did take up alot of space 😀

 

[OmgIts AliC]

I have been there tried that.

my installer folder is still 12GB and the winsxs is 18GB, but i managed to make other things smaller, such as del lots of languages. (10gb worth)

 

[OmgIts AliC]

Thx for help guys, i will tell you the size when all the languages have uninstalled

 

[StupidComputers]

Ya.. my 7x64 pro is only 14 gigs. You might want to consider a fresh install, I don't see languages taking up the rest.

 

[OmgIts AliC]

Ya.. my 7x64 pro is only 14 gigs. You might want to consider a fresh install, I don't see languages taking up the rest.

well no it wont take up the rest, but about 20-30GB is not hugely big and until i need the space, ill just live with it

 

[ronintexas]

Most of my installs have a windows folder of between 16GB and 25GB (depending on if I cleaned out the patch files).

 

[OmgIts AliC]

Most of my installs have a windows folder of between 16GB and 25GB (depending on if I cleaned out the patch files).

well if you saw my pic you could see that disk cleanup cannot clean up the golden 10GB