Windows 7 taking more space than Vista?

Solution 1:

You'll find at the "Engineering Windows 7" blog a nice article describing their effort regarding Disk Space.

Solution 2:

Actually just found out what's going on.

When installing Windows 7 as an upgrade, it keeps the old OS on the hdd in the windows.old folder. This folder used up 75GB in my case.

Here's the way to get rid of this folder:

Removing windows.old folder