{"id":50091,"date":"2025-09-12T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=50091"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:50:07","slug":"windows-how-much-space-does-a-windows-11-installation-occupy-for-practical-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/windows-how-much-space-does-a-windows-11-installation-occupy-for-practical-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows: how much space does a Windows 11 installation occupy, for practical purposes?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Windows: the tutor weighs in on a question he&#8217;s long wondered.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-windows-11-reset-part-1\/\">my post from September 4<\/a> that I recently reset Windows on this computer. I continue to be very happy with the result. I backed up everything, of course, which turned out to be important &#8211; that&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n<p>\nSince the reset, I&#8217;ve added back about 9.5 GB of files from backup &#8211; some of the backups I made needed to be replaced, while others didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>\nPresently, the hard drive of this computer claims 87.5 GB are used. I looked into the Programs and Features list, and find I&#8217;ve re-installed about 2 GB of apps, a key one being the anti-malware suite.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, for practical purposes, it seems that a day-to-day functioning Windows 11 (home) installation might occupy at least 76 GB. I wouldn&#8217;t count on it being less. For perspective, the Windows folder on the hard drive seems to admit to occupying 28 GB.<\/p>\n<p>\nBefore the reset, I think the hard drive totalled 217 GB of used space.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, eh?<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Windows: the tutor weighs in on a question he&#8217;s long wondered. I mentioned in my post from September 4 that I recently reset Windows on this computer. I continue to be very happy with the result. I backed &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/windows-how-much-space-does-a-windows-11-installation-occupy-for-practical-purposes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows: how much space does a Windows 11 installation occupy, for practical purposes?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50091"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50102,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50091\/revisions\/50102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}