Recently I did a fresh installation of windows 7 SP1 64 bit on a new machine. It eats up about 40 gb space. Is it normal or did I do anything wrong? Thanks.
It sounds a bit excessive, but there could be a good reason for it. How much system memory does the machine have? Windows usually sizes the hibernation file (hiberfil.sys) at about 75-80% of the installed memory and initially sizes the paging file (pagefile.sys) at about 25% of the installed memory, but pagefile.sys can grow to 100% (or slightly more) if and when it's needed. On a machine with 16GB of physical memory installed, these two files alone can add up to a total of somewhere between 16-28 GB. That's in addition to the other Windows system files, so in this particular example, 40GB sounds reasonable to me.
I suggest get SSD 60GB or 64GB, and not alot apps you need, OS'es and Drivers and little apps.. 4GB of ram is more enough for 64bits 8GB is fine.. 16GB WOW.. I suggest 240GB SSD.. you be fine.. ATGPUD2003
"powercfg -h -size percentage If I wanted to resize hiberfil.sys to be 100%, I would type either of the commands below exactly. powercfg -h -size 100% or powercfg -h -size 100"