Many thanks for the ‘Removing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Backup Files’ routine, it certainly works fine for me. Again, the saved space being equal to the amount of Ram installed. So disabling hibernation is not a problem. Mine was 4Gb.Īlso, with an SSD you don’t really need hibernation as bootup is so fast that hibernation literally becomes redundant. This saves you space equal to the amount of Ram installed. There are instructions on doing this on the net, just google it. Users who want to save space should note that you can put your Paging file (pagefile.sys) on a different drive (ie, not the boot drive). The SSD drive was just over half full (Capacity 59.9 Gb formatted) and running the above routine removed a staggering (to me!) 2.7Gb of files. I use a SSD 64 Gb disc to run Windows 7 64 bit, I only install programs on the disc and all ‘special’ folders (My Documents and other data) are on a normal SATA 2 hard drive. Removing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Backup Files. Still, they will free up Gigabytes as well. It is likely that 32-bit users will be able to free up less space than that due to the nature of their operating system. The free space increased from 18.9 Gigabytes before the cleanup to 22.2 Gigabytes after.

How much disk space are we talking about? I just made the test on a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit system. Impatient users may create an image of their system partition instead that they can use to restore the system if the need arises to uninstall the service pack after the backup data has been removed from the system.

I recommend to test the operating system with service pack at least for a few days before you make the decision to delete the backups. These users can free up disk space on the Windows partition by deleting the backup files. Then again, users who have installed the service pack without complications do not necessarily need those backup files that allow them to uninstall the service pack anymore.

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