Reducing Windows 7 footprint on SSD

[Aussie Allan]

 Well I've got Windows 7-64 completely loaded, patched and creaking at the seems with updates.......Room on the revodrive is at a premimum with only 93Gb to start with ....the foot print for the OS is 57.2Gb/35.8 free as we speak ......I need some advise from the general community (preferably qualified) some tips and trick to reduce this footprint further.............thanks in advance to all who help me in my project.

  Update and add

   As this is my first adventure into SSD territory, If possible some do's and don'ts would be much appreciated as well like correct set-up and use as a boot drive, defrag, indexing or not ext.....Last thing ,   the RevoDrive is effectively 4xSSDs in raid0 out of the box, could be important to the answers given

 Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

Hi Allan,

The size of that sounds about right, gone are the days when you could get Windows installed onto a 20Mb drive!

I wouldn't worry about it really as the Revodrive is big enough to hold your OS, programs and files being worked on. If you have a big backup drive for data then you shouldn't have a problem.

Obviously there are ways you can pare down your footprint a little.

Make sure that the swapfile is on another drive.
Remove all the helpfiles.
Move your "Documents" and other personal files to another location.
Disable the cache in the Recycle bin.
Etc

[Aussie Allan]

Hi Allan,

The size of that sounds about right, gone are the days when you could get Windows installed onto a 20Mb drive!

I wouldn't worry about it really as the Revodrive is big enough to hold your OS, programs and files being worked on. If you have a big backup drive for data then you shouldn't have a problem.

Obviously there are ways you can pare down your footprint a little.

Make sure that the swapfile is on another drive.
Remove all the helpfiles.
Move your "Documents" and other personal files to another location.
Disable the cache in the Recycle bin.
Etc

 Good! have you anymore Etc's in the memory bucket?.......... and do you have anything on the "Update and Add section I added on!.......I really am a newbee as far as SSD and there care and usage.....Many thanks as usual DM ........Cracker day isn't it!!!!

[Dark Mantis]

As I am sure you already know the main thing with a SSD is to try and cut down on the read/write cycles as they do have a limit on these drives. That is one reason why you shouldn't defrag the drives. That and of course it is not like a spinning disk where the heads have to physically travel to find data. It makes no difference on a SSD where the data is stored.

Move your Temp storage file to another drive.

I will try and think of some more and get back to you.