Windows 7 Disk Space on Parallels 10

I have recently installed windows 7 on parallels 10. It has allocated 64gb of hard disk space to the virtual machine. After I installed windows 7 and some other software programs (Revit 2013, AutoCAD 2015 & Microsoft Office 2013) I was left with only 19gb left. Windows prompted me to install a whole list of updates for Windows 7 (2gb worth). However, once I downloaded these and had them installed I was left with only 9gb of disk space! Does this sound right?
I am only running a few programs on my windows virtual machine. I understand some of the programs I am running can be a bit demanding on disk space however, when I look at the requirements for these programs the amount of disk space being used does not add up (Revit approx.5gb, AutoCAD 2015 approx. 6gb, Microsoft Office Professional 2013 approx. 3gb). I read somewhere that Windows 7 64-bit should take up approx.20gb. Given this, and the requirements of the other programs I have mentioned, It should leave me with approx.29gb of disk space available. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

In Windows, there is a program called Disk Cleanup. If you run that and delete all but the most recent restore points, you may be surprised at how much space is recovered. I use VMware Fusion rather than Parallels but Fusion supports the ability to "reclaim" space on the VM drive. I suspect Parallels offers something similar.

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