# disk cleanup **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [February 4, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disk-cleanup/27869 "2016-02-04T17:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disk-cleanup/27869/1 "2016-02-04T17:49:22Z")
Building a new win7-64 vm for a template for a linked clone vm pool. Just have windows 7 installed plus updates and there is almost 23GB used on the HD. I’ve done the disk cleanup including system files, ccleaner found 1GB, tried the sxs cleanup, all my googling basically shows me to use the windows disk cleanup tool. Anyone have any secrets to freeing up any space on this? I think it’s rediculous that win7 alone should take almost 23GB of space. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disk-cleanup/27869/2 "2016-02-04T18:13:27Z")
> [@](#): > > On Thu 04 Feb 2016 03:49:22 PM CST, Stevo wrote: > > Building a new win7-64 vm for a template for a linked clone vm pool. > > Just have windows 7 installed plus updates and there is almost 23GB > used on the HD. > > I’ve done the disk cleanup including system files, ccleaner found 1GB, > tried the sxs cleanup, all my googling basically shows me to use the > windows disk cleanup tool. > > Anyone have any secrets to freeing up any space on this? I think it’s > rediculous that win7 alone should take almost 23GB of space. Hi That’s easy fdisk 😉 In ccleaner, you have gone through the list no Windows.old directory? A large hiberfile.sys or hidden directories $W\* ? – Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1|GNOME 3.10.4|3.12.51-60.25-default If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, please show your appreciation and click on the star below… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disk-cleanup/27869/3 "2016-02-04T18:27:24Z")
malcolmlewis sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > Hi > That’s easy fdisk ;)[/color] forgot to mention no fdisk suggestions. =) [color=blue] > In ccleaner, you have gone through the list no Windows.old directory? > A large hiberfile.sys or hidden directories $W\* ?[/color] Nope, none of those anywhere. Largest folder is windows, within it, largest folder within it is winsxs, but not sure how to clean anything up in there if it’s even possible. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disk-cleanup/27869/4 "2016-02-04T18:35:19Z")
> [@](#): > > On Thu 04 Feb 2016 04:27:24 PM CST, Stevo wrote: > > malcolmlewis sounds like they ‘said’: > [color=blue] > > > Hi > > That’s easy fdisk ;)[/color] > > forgot to mention no fdisk suggestions. =) > > [color=blue] > > > In ccleaner, you have gone through the list no Windows.old directory? > > A large hiberfile.sys or hidden directories $W\* ?[/color] > > Nope, none of those anywhere. > > Largest folder is windows, within it, largest folder within it is > winsxs, but not sure how to clean anything up in there if it’s even > possible. Hi Maybe these help? [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251565.aspx](https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn251565.aspx) [https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2014/05/13/how-to-clean-up-the-winsxs-directory-and-free-up-disk-space-on-windows-server-2008-r2-with-new-update/](https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2014/05/13/how-to-clean-up-the-winsxs-directory-and-free-up-disk-space-on-windows-server-2008-r2-with-new-update/) > [@](#): > > The Windows 7 version of this fix introduced an additional option to > the Disk Cleanup wizard that would cleanup previous versions of Windows > Update files. KB2852386 adds a Disk Cleanup option on Windows Server > 2008 R2, similar to the Windows 7 update. [http://www.howtogeek.com/174705/how-to-reduce-the-size-of-your-winsxs-folder-on-windows-7-or-8/](http://www.howtogeek.com/174705/how-to-reduce-the-size-of-your-winsxs-folder-on-windows-7-or-8/) Else your S.O.L it’s windows…get use to it… 😉 I have WinX dual booting, it has a 2.9GB hiberfil.sys and 1.9GB pagefile.sys, Windows dir is 12GB… rest consumes 7GB… – Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890) SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1|GNOME 3.10.4|3.12.51-60.25-default If you find this post helpful and are logged into the web interface, please show your appreciation and click on the star below… Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/disk-cleanup/27869/5 "2016-02-04T18:54:22Z")
malcolmlewis sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > I have WinX dual booting, it has a 2.9GB hiberfil.sys and 1.9GB > pagefile.sys, Windows dir is 12GB… rest consumes 7GB…[/color] So my response to malcolmlewis’s comment is… Ugh…bloatware, really stinks when it’s the OS that’s the most bloated. – Stevo