Possible to clean up some of the windows dir to free up drive space - windows 7

I've noticed my windows directory takes up 21GB's of space. Normally I wouldn't mind because I'm usually on a hard drive with plenty of space, but since having purchased an SSD boot drive, I'm a bit limited as to what goes on the C:\ drive.

Here is a detailed analysis of what is taking up that space:

Size details for C:\Windows

Name File Size Files % of Parent % of Total

winsxs 7,010,870 42,338 30.8% 11.0%

Installer 4,938,526 3,947 21.7% 7.7%

assembly 3,336,223 3,191 14.7% 5.2%

System32 2,713,797 11,860 11.9% 4.2%

SysWOW64 1,259,757 4,973 5.5% 2.0%

Microsoft.NET 1,147,614 3,951 5.0% 1.8%

Anything in here that can be safely cleaned out? Log files or installer files?

If you are running 64 bit, 20 GB is the minimum for Win 7. I wouldn't try deleting anything unless you want to risk activating some "undocumented features". :)

You could try with customized windows installation. Unfortunately, I'm not an expert in this field, but there are ways to remove unneeded drivers and programs from windows installation.

One popular program for customizing windows installations is vLite. It was originally made for Vista, but I've heard people talking about using it with windows 7.

The other option would be to get some light version from torrents or similar, but that brings its own set of problems like finding good clean torrent and legal problems and so on.