About Windows 7 System Volume Sizing

How do you plan for the disk partition size of your Windows 7 system volume? There are many factors need to be considered beforehand, let’s try to make a list here.

• Virtual memory
• System dumps
• Hibernate
• Applications (Program Files, Program Files (x86), ProgramData)
• Windows system (winsxs, Installer, assembly, System32, SysWOW64, Microsoft.Net)
• Search index
• User profiles (C:\Users)
• MSOCache

I use a free tool called Free Disk Usage Analyzer to monitor my system volume, and come out the disk usage pattern for my personal reference.

Here is a good article about Disk Space from Engineering Windows 7 blog.

Windows 7 – Problem Steps Recorder (PSR)

1. Search for “psr” from Start menu and run it.
2. Click Start Record, it will record your activities through a series of screen shots, including captions that show where you clicked.
3. You can click the Add Comment to highlight specific areas of the screen and insert custom annotations.
4. Stop recording, everything will be ZIPped as a MHTML file.

Enable Windows 7 God Mode

Create a new folder and name it GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}. Now, you have a new folder in GodMode!

Kodak/Wang Imaging for Windows

This is the best free fax TIFF imaging tool kit I ever used, although it is quite old and only available as OCX controls.
It is only come with Windows 98, Me, and Windows 2000, but you still can use it under XP and Vista.

Imaging for Windows XP
http://personales.ya.com/sailor/imaging/

Discussion about Kodak/Wang Imaging for Windows
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