[needamini]

Originally Posted by cohoman

I'm curious, does anyone know approximately how much space is taken up for an Windows 7 install? I've got the most current beta version available as an iso image, and I wanted to ask the size requirements before attempting an install (after a full image back of the original WinXP OS, of course!).

Thanks.

A fresh install of ultimate with default options took 8GB.

[tigerwolf753]

Between these two guides:

http://rickatnight11.com/?p=71

http://mydellmini.com/forum/windows-...st=0&sk=t&sd=a

I was able to trim the install to less than 4GB.

[nollie]

I honestly don't know if I prefer XP or Windows 7. Not sure if I'll want to go back to XP in a couple of months as Windows 7 seems like a very worthwhile upgrade for me as its speed is pretty surprising.

[zeroprime]

Having the icon based taskbar makes Win7 worth it over all of their other versions, when using it on a netbook like this. Now I can dock it to the right side, leaving the full 600px height for apps (without having to turn on auto-hide for the taskbar) and it isn't very wide since it uses icons instead of listing out what is open.

I had installed it using Vlite from those guides and it's using 5GB out of 7.15GB