Clean up after Windows 7 SP1 (Service Pack 1) - After you install Windows 7 SP1, it leaves around the original files so you can uninstall the Service Pack if you want.However, if you take a few minutes, read carefully and do even a few of these tips or just run Disk Cleanup, you'll get lots of space back. Please read carefully and with all things you find on a random blog, be careful because you have no one to blame but yourself. I've got a 256 gig C: drive, but noticed that in the last week or so I'd had only 20 gigs free. This is an ' updated for Windows 7' version of my popular original article Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows Vista.