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  1. BERTON
    Berton Win User

    Microsoft promises less disk space Win10

    Berton, Mar 15, 2015
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  2. ADAMF
    adamf Win User

    It certainly works - look at these compression ratios: 85% for the Windows directory, nearly 90% for Program files (see the column on RHS below). It doesn't seem to affect performance at all (that I've noticed) although I suppose it may.

    Note you only seem to get one shot at it so you want to install Office or any big programs before you run it. I'm not sure if this is by design but I don't see the compress option in Disk Cleanup after the first time (it is seen under the clean up system files section initially).


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    adamf, Mar 15, 2015
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  3. JDSAPHIR
    JDSaphir Win User
    Disk space requirement: free space or overall space?

    And I suppose it's 16GB free space on the OS disk, can't use a USB drive or something to have it work?

    Is it even possible to have Win8.1 take less than 4GB?

    Can't I create a Win10 reinstallation disk, boot from it and install Win10 from there?
     
    JDSaphir, Mar 15, 2015
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  4. ANDRE DA COSTA
    Andre Da Costa Win User

    Microsoft promises less disk space Win10

    Disk space requirement: free space or overall space?

     
    Andre Da Costa, Mar 15, 2015
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