How large is windows 10 64bit?

[Synawke]

Windows on my brothers PC takes up about 30GB while it takes up almost 90GB on my desktop. Why

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Synawke said:

Windows on my brothers PC takes up about 30GB while it takes up almost 90GB on my desktop. Why

You have other programs installed?

[DiamondShark286]

1 minute ago, Synawke said:

Windows on my brothers PC takes up about 30GB while it takes up almost 90GB on my desktop. Why

should only take about 20gb are you also measuring the program files? also empty your recycling bin if you don't very often

[Guest Kloaked]

It could be about a 30GB install but after updates, temporary files, app installs, etc etc it will grow bigger <insert Lenny here>.

[Synawke]

Just now, Tb428 said:

should only take about 20gb are you also measuring the program files? also empty your recycling bin if you don't very often

Yeah its always empty. I dont believe i have anything other than windows, csgo and h1z1 on my SSD which is 120gb (109 usable) and its completely full pretty much

[flibberdipper]

It's right around 20GB after you remove the temporary crap from updates (and around 30GB if you don't).

[COUPER MILLAR]

If you upgraded from Windows 7 or 8.1 you retain all of those files as well. Have you run a disk clean up? It would be labeled as previous windows install or something like that. 

[Synawke]

2 minutes ago, COUPER MILLAR said:

If you upgraded from Windows 7 or 8.1 you retain all of those files as well. Have you run a disk clean up? It would be labeled as previous windows install or something like that. 

yeah it was a fresh install

[DiamondShark286]

6 minutes ago, Synawke said:

yeah it was a fresh install

then something is definitely wrong it at the very least should not take 90gb on a fresh install 

[GoodBytes]

Run Windows Disk Cleanup utility.

Just type on the Start menu search box: Disk Cleanup, and pick it.

A panel will show up, pick your C:\ drive, then it will do a scan, once done, click on the button "Cleanup system files" button, wait for it to do its scan, check all boxes, and click on OK, it will clean everything.

 

Then go to: C:\Users\<Account name>\AppData\Local\Temp (AppData is a hidden folder),

Select everything, and hit Delete. Empty your recycling bin after. It is normal that some files can't be deleted, just skip them. Those are just files being in used by currently running programs.

 

Now, if you check, your system will consume less space. So where is the rest?

• Hibernation file is the size of your RAM.
• Pagefile file will be of a certain size as well based on your usage/RAM
• AppData folder will vary in size based on programs you have installed, and their temp data (cache, saved games, web browser cache, etc.)

 

[Synawke]

5 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Run Windows Disk Cleanup utility.

Just type on the Start menu search box: Disk Cleanup, and pick it.

A panel will show up, pick your C:\ drive, then it will do a scan, once done, click on the button "Cleanup system files" button, wait for it to do its scan, check all boxes, and click on OK, it will clean everything.

 

Then go to: C:\Users\<Account name>\AppData\Local\Temp (AppData is a hidden folder),

Select everything, and hit Delete. Empty your recycling bin after. It is normal that some files can't be deleted, just skip them. Those are just files being in used by currently running programs.

 

Now, if you check, your system will consume less space. So where is the rest?

• Hibernation file is the size of your RAM.
• Pagefile file will be of a certain size as well based on your usage/RAM
• AppData folder will vary in size based on programs you have installed, and their temp data (cache, saved games, web browser cache, etc.)

 

OK. I found the problem. My csgo game file is 46 Gigs idk how

[samiscool51]

the first time you install windows, it's about 10-11 GB depending on what version you have (home is about this size, pro is a bit bigger), after installing updates it will be about 30-35 GB, after cleaning up everything temporary it will be about 20-25 GB

i think embedded is about 5 GB's but i don't use it and have no intentions to use it

education and enterprise is about 15 GB fully updated but thats intended for schools and workplaces, not home use

[JoostinOnline]

You can't measure Windows by C:\Windows directory alone. There's also all the app data (for each profile), the page file, the hibernation file, the restore points, and more. I recommend a 240GB drive for Windows.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Another thing of note is that C:\Windows is artificially inflated if you check its space in Explorer because C:\Windows\WinSxS contains a crap ton of hard links. Explorer doesn't realize that these hard links point to the same file, and so it counts the file multiple times. See https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251566.aspx

 

You could also use something like WinDirStat to get a quick glance at what's taking up so much space.