- Feb 9, 2014
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Hello,
I just did a fresh install from DVD of Win7 Pro on my new Solid State Drive. The drive was brand new, empty. 256Gb drive.
Once the install was done, Windows 7 is taking up 90Gb on the SSD! So I checked - the pagefile is set to 48Gb, the Windows folder itself is 30Gb, and then there's 12Gb still unaccounted for.
Now - I have 48Gb of ram (yes, fourty eight gigabytes). So I'm guessing Windows just blindly sets pagefile size equal to installed ram?
I've seen many threads saying to just go ahead and reduce pagefile to something like 1Gb - but, is there a good reason Windows does this? Maybe a valid reason to leave it this way? But if not, I'd rather recuperate the 48Gig.
Thanks
I just did a fresh install from DVD of Win7 Pro on my new Solid State Drive. The drive was brand new, empty. 256Gb drive.
Once the install was done, Windows 7 is taking up 90Gb on the SSD! So I checked - the pagefile is set to 48Gb, the Windows folder itself is 30Gb, and then there's 12Gb still unaccounted for.
Now - I have 48Gb of ram (yes, fourty eight gigabytes). So I'm guessing Windows just blindly sets pagefile size equal to installed ram?
I've seen many threads saying to just go ahead and reduce pagefile to something like 1Gb - but, is there a good reason Windows does this? Maybe a valid reason to leave it this way? But if not, I'd rather recuperate the 48Gig.
Thanks
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