Dism

Running on a 128GB SSD card, the Windows directory is around 50 GB's. Not much room left for anything else. Windows 8 was significantly less.

After every update I delete the $Windows~BT directory and the Windows.old directory to free up about 8GB's.. but it's not enough.

Would a clean install remove a lot of the junk in the Windows directory or is that always going to be the size?

I'm going to take a stab at this and say you should save some space by doing a clean install. If I recall I used much less space when I did a clean install yesterday with build 10074.

HTH
Jeff

Running on a 128GB SSD card, the Windows directory is around 50 GB's. Not much room left for anything else. Windows 8 was significantly less.

What on earth do you have in your Windows folder? I have Build 10074 installed on three machines, this laptop I am using at the moment has the biggest Windows folder, about 21 GB.

C:Windows usually ~ 20GB:

1. Delete everything inC:WindowsPanther, those files were used during installation and no longer needed
2. Delete everything under C:WindowsSoftwareDistributionDownload. Windows stores all downloaded updates.
   NOTE:Don't delete while Windows Updates is running.
3. From Admin Command prompt, run: dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanupto reduce the size of WinSxS folder

Running on a 128GB SSD card, the Windows directory is around 50 GB's. Not much room left for anything else. Windows 8 was significantly less.

After every update I delete the $Windows~BT directory and the Windows.old directory to free up about 8GB's.. but it's not enough.

Would a clean install remove a lot of the junk in the Windows directory or is that always going to be the size?

What's the size of your Windows SxS folder?

Build 10102 (upgrade from 10056)
Windows folder size ~ 15GB (after deletion of unused system files)

Build 10102 (upgrade from 10056)
Windows folder size ~ 15GB (after deletion of unused system files)

Ahhh, seems like a good time to research DISM.exe and all the benefits it provides!
I posted a few days ago that I whittled 10GB off my Win8.1 Windows SxS folder using DISM.
Brink has posted information about using it but I think the info you're looking for was posted back in the Win7 forum.
DISM will analyze SxS folder, advise whether it should be cleaned, and then provide a means to clean it.
Mine dropped from 16GB to 6GB.............. YMMV......

Close to 15Gb for me too. I agree with all above, clean install is the best option.

Close to 15Gb for me too. I agree with all above, clean install is the best option.

I've violated the clean install rule when there was no ISO available (10041?) but you can still save 9 or10GB of space by cleaning your Win SxS folder. Did you analyze yours to see if it can be reduced?

Ahhh, seems like a good time to research DISM.exe and all the benefits it provides!
I posted a few days ago that I whittled 10GB off my Win8.1 Windows SxS folder using DISM.

Nice. I'll research a bit about it too.