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After hitting Windows Update it'll grow a bit as expected to maybe 11.5 to 12GB.

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Any decent imaging software won't include the hibernate or page files in the image so that'll save you space as well (True Image, Clonezilla, some others).Ī nice clean install of Windows 10 Home should come in at about 10.2GB in size afterward not counting the hibernate and page file usage that's just the raw OS itself. It's as small as it'll get after the installation of that build, so imaging it after that OS install is the recommendation I'd make. You've already done the upgrade on that hardware which means when you do the clean install this time you won't even need to enter the Product Key at all - skip it both times you're prompted to enter it and as soon as that clean install gets online it'll activate against the now stored activation hash that Microsoft has on file on their end.

I'd agree with the post above: if you want the smallest possible starting installation of Windows 10, a clean one using the recently re-released Threshold 2 build (use the Media Creation Tool to get the most current ISO) is the solution. Still curious what to deal is, so leaving this open.

This normal or no? If not, what to do?ĮDIT: Got tired of waiting, closed the prompt and ran the command again. New SSD, new Win 10 install, only ~13GB total on SSD, trying to slim down for imaging. Got to 42.7% and has been stuck for 30+ minutes. Maybe some of you sys-admin types that deal with imaging often can enlighten me? Or should I restart and try again?ĭism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase taking a very long time. That said, I've never used this command before and have no idea how long it usually takes.

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It still hasn't moved from 42.7% as of writing all this, and I'm concerned it's locked up but don't really know how to check beyond opening performance monitor and looking for disk activity.

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After installing basic drivers (GPU, printer, network, etc) and Chrome I ran both the built-in disk cleanup and CCleaner, deleted all the driver installers, cleaned out their various install directories, and that got me down to 12.7GB. I already deleted the windows.old directory, disabled the hibernation file (just for imaging purposes) and moved the page file to a spinning disk. The site I found the command on did note it 'would take a while' and 'be patient' but I'm getting a bit worried/impatient now, as it has been sitting at 42.7% for about 20 minutes now after getting to that point fairly quickly.Īgain, this is on a new install of Windows 10, upgraded from a fresh install of Windows 7 today. Not nearly what it would with an old install that has seen tons of Windows Updates, but some. Looked around and found this command:ĭism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBaseĪs I understand it this goes through the WinSxS directory (the component store) and deletes everything that's been superseded by a newer version, leaving only the most recent versions of each component, and should shave a good bit off of it. So after some looking around I determined it would probably be worth it to try and shrink the WinSxS directory on this new Windows 10 install before imaging it, as it's roughly 1/2 the data on the drive right now (and that's real size, not including hard-links).

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