Full AMD MB drivers are <20MB , Full Intel about the same.
You most likely installed an included disk , which will install everything
but the kitchen sink !
The only "bloated" driver packages I've seen are the new NVIDIA and
ATI video packages.
ATI catalyst and geforce are 286MB. Installs as @ 100mb (drivers only).
Creative is also full of b$ , 250MB.
My new Xonar sound card = 23MB ! Cool.
My Nvidia video , xonar sound , and motherboard are 125MB total.
You CAN go to the actual manufacturer and download JUST a driver
package , usually much smaller.
An example is my HP (p1005) printer. It's disk (with bundled stuff) will install
250MB easy. Just the HP USB drivers (and printer control panel) from
the HP site is a 30MB install - still with full functionality.
Drivers from the site will usually be more bug free (updated) from
the original disk that accompanies the hardware.
OS
I un-ticked Chrome. But it installed that anyway.
So I went straight back in and un-installed Chrome.
Just remembered I did an MS defrag before MS Backup.
Could defrag have gone wrong and duplicated files and not deleted them?
Ost,
you're up early, or have you been out on the town and not got to bed yet?
So I went straight back in and un-installed Chrome.
Just remembered I did an MS defrag before MS Backup.
Could defrag have gone wrong and duplicated files and not deleted them?
Ost,
you're up early, or have you been out on the town and not got to bed yet?
You could try 'Treesize'
TreeSize Free - Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs
When you run the program, right click the desktop icon and run as admin.
You can expand the results on the left as shown to see the exact problem folder.
TreeSize Free - Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs
When you run the program, right click the desktop icon and run as admin.
You can expand the results on the left as shown to see the exact problem folder.
Attachments
I am maybe half way through C: It has a lot of folders inside folders.
I just noticed a new message in that flag symbol in the bottom right corner.
It gave two messages.
One about backup.
It offered two options to check Backup or to run backup again.
I did check and it is going through a long HDD intensive routine with a blank screen.
Maybe it was backup that went wrong and added 25GB of files to my 40GB drive !
Have you a lot of RAM ?
Hibernate - Change Size of hiberfil.sys File - Windows 7 Help Forums
If you don't use hibernate then you can delete the hibernation file via disk clean (I seem to recall). You can always recreate it again if needed.
The same really applies to the page file. This is an area on the HDD that is used automatically when there isn't enough RAM. I think its set at around 1.5 times the RAM capacity. You can reduce it though.
windows - How do I decrease the size of the page file? - Super User
Hibernate - Change Size of hiberfil.sys File - Windows 7 Help Forums
If you don't use hibernate then you can delete the hibernation file via disk clean (I seem to recall). You can always recreate it again if needed.
The same really applies to the page file. This is an area on the HDD that is used automatically when there isn't enough RAM. I think its set at around 1.5 times the RAM capacity. You can reduce it though.
windows - How do I decrease the size of the page file? - Super User
You need to delete the Hibernate file by running the command prompt in the above link.
As far as I remember hibernate is set to NEVER.
I will check
Sleep
. Sleep after _ Never
. Allow hybrid sleep _ On
. Hibernate after _ Never
. Allow wake timers _ Enable
I will turn hybrid sleep to Off.
Do I now delete the hiberfil file?
or will the system delete now that the setting is changed?
Treesize says the hiberfil is still same size.
Tried a restart in case it needed that to remove the hiberfil file.
It is still there.
Tried to delete from treesize (as administrator) and it came back can't because it is in use by another program.
How do I delete the now redundant 11GB hiberfil.sys file
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The page file is normally managed automatically and by default sets at 1.5 times the RAM capacity.
The page file is for when RAM runs out and the operating system needs somewhere else to use temporarily. I suppose the basis is that if you fit 16Gb RAM you have done so with a view to using it and so the extra overflow of the page file is sized accordingly.
I doubt you ever even approach those limits tbh. I'm running 2Gb with Vista and less than 50% of RAM is in use even with many tabs open. Unused RAM (as in empty) isn't serving any purpose. The idea of RAM is that it has all that is needed loaded into it for instant access without using the HDD.
I'd set the page file to say 4Gb.
The page file is for when RAM runs out and the operating system needs somewhere else to use temporarily. I suppose the basis is that if you fit 16Gb RAM you have done so with a view to using it and so the extra overflow of the page file is sized accordingly.
I doubt you ever even approach those limits tbh. I'm running 2Gb with Vista and less than 50% of RAM is in use even with many tabs open. Unused RAM (as in empty) isn't serving any purpose. The idea of RAM is that it has all that is needed loaded into it for instant access without using the HDD.
I'd set the page file to say 4Gb.
Yes, but it still exists on the HDD as reserved blank space. You need to disable that.
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