Does XP Pro take 8 GB???

[J Mac]

I am just finished installing XP Pro on a newly formatted hdd. I have now
downloaded and installed all the critical updates and all but three of the
optional (Not Media10 and two others). Other than that, I installed the
necessary drivers (audio, chipset, NIC, video) for the Dell 3000 to run.

All of that occupies 8,027,594, 752 bytes (7.47 GB).

Is that right??? Has it gotten that bloated??

Thanks

 

[Trax]

|>I am just finished installing XP Pro on a newly formatted hdd. I have now
|>downloaded and installed all the critical updates and all but three of the
|>optional (Not Media10 and two others). Other than that, I installed the
|>necessary drivers (audio, chipset, NIC, video) for the Dell 3000 to run.
|>
|>All of that occupies 8,027,594, 752 bytes (7.47 GB).
|>
|>Is that right??? Has it gotten that bloated??
|>

Right click "My Computer", Properties, Advanced, Performance settings,
Advanced.

Just how large is your virtual memory?

Had a few crashes? Search for and delete *.Dmp files.

Start\Run %TEMP% <enter> delete anything that doesn't complain.

 

[Peter Foldes]

What is the size of your Hard Drive?

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

My XPhome takes 5.5GB not including games,VM & MyDocs.
Its pretty lean- no Messenger/Restore/TaskScheduler/...

HTH-Larry

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:57:16 -0400, "J Mac"

|I am just finished installing XP Pro on a newly formatted hdd. I have now
|downloaded and installed all the critical updates and all but three of the
|optional (Not Media10 and two others). Other than that, I installed the
|necessary drivers (audio, chipset, NIC, video) for the Dell 3000 to run.
|
|All of that occupies 8,027,594, 752 bytes (7.47 GB).
|
|Is that right??? Has it gotten that bloated??
|
|Thanks
|

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

 

[Fred]

My XPhome takes 5.5GB not including games,VM & MyDocs.
Its pretty lean- no Messenger/Restore/TaskScheduler/...

Something different... we get to play mine is smaller than yours.

My C drive where XP home resides takes 966 MB. That includes games,
My Documents, Messenger, Restore and TaskScheduler. Plus it includes
the stuff that several large programs put on C even though installed
on other drives - MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, Paint Shop Pro, scanner
and printer software, PGP, etc.

So, your 5.5 GB may be lean, but my 966 MB is still way too bloated.

 

[Uncle Joe]

477 MB. Doesn't seem so bloated after reading
all the other comments.

 

[Fred]

Good show. You've made XP cry Uncle!

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 05:26:21 -0400, "Uncle Joe" <Uncle

 

[David Burkinshaw]

A few things to keep in mind.
1) Your pagefile.sys file in the root will generally be 1 1/2 times the size
of your memory.
2) Your hibernation file will be equal to the size of your memory.
3) If you have System Restore on which i believe is "On" by default, that'll
take up several GB of space. I don't recall what the default % of drive
space is but i have a 40 GB drive and it was taking over 2 GB of space.

So right there on my system, which has 768 MB of ram, I immediately lost
almost 4 GB of drive space. You can turn down the size of your pagefile by
going to Control Panel -> System -> Advanced and click the Settings button
under Performance, click the Advanced tab and select Change under Virtual
Memory. Setting this too low can degrade performance unless you have a lot
of memory and/or run few programs.
You can also turn off the hibernation feature by going into Control
Panel->Power Options -> Hibernate and uncheck the "Enable Hibernate" option.
I personally turned off the System Restore option which has its good points
and bad points. That's my personal opinion though.

Hope this helps.

Dave

 

[R. McCarty]

I use an XP partition of 10.0 Gigabytes. By using redirection and
some other settings, the actual total used space with 95% of apps
on the XP drive is just ~3.5 Gigabytes. Certainly not a standard
or recommended setup for everyone, but does work well for me.