Reducing resource consumption Vista operating system slimming method

Windows Vista takes up a lot of system resources, the following methods can help us reduce the hard disk space occupied by Vista.

C:\\Windows\\Web\\Wallpaper

Inside is Windows comes with wallpaper, you can delete it if you don't need it, or transfer it to another disk (45.5M)

C :\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository

This folder is a Windows built-in driver backup, generally not needed, so you can delete (1.03G)

Of course, if If you want to delete this folder directly, the system will prompt you that you do not have permission, so we have to obtain this permission. First right click on the C:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository - property, we first get the ownership of this folder, point security - advanced - owner, then click edit - advanced other users or groups, enter the selected Enter your username in the object name, or click Advanced - Find Now, select your username, OK, and then choose to replace the subcontainer and the owner of the object. If you don't choose this, we only have ownership of this folder, and There is no ownership of his subfolders and the files inside, then apply - OK, so we have ownership of this folder, because the ownership of this folder belongs to System and does not belong to us. Then click Permissions - Edit - Add, fill in your username or use Advanced - Find Now, OK, then click on your username - Edit, put the full control /allow that tick, OK, and then use the object from this Inherited permissions replace all existing descendants on the inheritable permissions tick (I rely on Microsoft, true TMD complex, you can not apply to all subfolders and files), as before, this is not ticked you only The folder permissions outside, the folder inside can still not be "completely controlled", then click Apply - OK - OK - OK. Ok, the folder inside, how do you want to delete it, how to delete it.

C:\\Boot

This is a Windows startup interface for different languages. It can be deleted except zh-CN. Direct deletion will prompt no permission. The method is the same as above (13.3M)

C:\\perflogs\\System\\Diagnostics

This is the test record file storage place after you have tested the Windows Vista system. It is stored in a folder according to different dates. Deleted (9.39M)

C:\\Windows\\Downloaded Installations

There are some programs (Dreamweaver.) When you install, you will extract the installation files into this folder, you can delete them. >

C:\\Windows\\Help

Needless to say, help files can be deleted. It is recommended to keep it temporarily, because it is not very familiar with this VISTA, sometimes it is used (105M)

C:\\Windows\\IME

Input method file, it is not clear which folder corresponds to the specific file. Which input method (136M)

C:\\Windows\\Installer

The program required for uninstallation of the installed program, if you do not need to uninstall after installing the program, you can delete it, or else If you want to delete it later, you may not be able to delete it (but you can re-install it and delete it), so delete it, according to the number of installers, tens to hundreds of M.

C:\\Windows\\winsxs

The total size of this folder is about 3-4G. It should be a system file. It is not clear about the specific use.

C:\\Windows\\winsxs\\Backup

This is some backup files. , can be deleted (353M)

C:\\ProgramData

Some programs will put some files into the installation, see the need to delete, for example, after I installed iTunes The folder C:\\ProgramData\\Apple Computer\\Installer Cache\\iTunes 7.0.2.16 will appear, which is actually the installation text. Can be deleted, but some are files that are needed when the software is running. You can't delete them. You can delete them by looking at the installation files. The size of this folder is tens to hundreds of M.

C:\\ Users\\Public

All user public folders, there are some sample images, videos, etc., which can be deleted (217M), where C:\\Users\\Public\\Recorded TV\\Sample Media is an example of Windows Media Center TV recording file (143M), C:\\Users\\Public\\Music\\Sample Music is sample music (59M),

C:\\Users\\Public\\Pictures\\Sample Pictures is sample image (4.7M), C:\\Users\\Public\\Videos is sample video (9.6M)

C:\\Windows\\Web\\Wallpaper(45M)

C:\\Windows\\System32\\DriverStore\\FileRepository(1030M )

C:\\Windows\\Help(105M)

C:\\Users\\Public(217M)

These 4 deletes, 1397M! Plus some others Things, free to 2G space will be saved, and then transfer the user files to other disks, page files get to other disks, C disk will not exceed 5G.

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(for reference)

The Vista system takes up a lot of hard disk space after installation, and the folder space after the initial installation is: < Br>

build 2.12 GB (2,281,192,634 bytes)

InstalledRepository 177 MB (186,577,063 bytes)

packages 510 MB (535,020,852 bytes)

Program Files 628 MB (659,145,925 Bytes)

Users

Windows 4.81 GB (5,172,100,125 bytes)

Test Operation in Vista System

1. Delete the InstalledRepository folder directly (177MB) , successful

2. Directly delete the packages folder (510MB), successful

3. Directly delete the build folder (2.12GB), the prompt can not be deleted, all selected as skip, after deletion There are 274M files left.

Then test the system, everything works.

This operation is successful for Vista to lose weight 2.5G