Step by step optimization of Windows XP

For the average user, we may never use some features, or some files are really redundant for our average user, so from now on, we will Step by step to do some basic optimization for our Windows XP.

After installing XP, we will find that our hard drive has been occupied by more than 3 G. The first thing we have to do is to lose weight on the system. Delete a series of files that are not meaningful to the average user.

First of all, we start from the problems left by the installation. During the installation process, in order to enable Windows XP to back up some files so that Windows XP can update the files, it is generally prepared for the system to run normally. Windows XP, and all kinds of software and hardware are installed, in fact, Windows XP update files are rare, but these backup files take up a lot of space, then the first step, we are going to Delete these backup files. We open the start menu, select Run, enter "ldf; sfc.exe /purgecache & rdquo; (without quotes) in the dialog box, the system will pop up a command prompt, this time, the system will be about 290 megabytes The file is deleted.

Open the system's C drive (your Windows XP is installed on the C partition). We select the tool on the menu bar. After selecting the folder option, select View, select Show all files in hidden files and folders. And the folder, we open the WINDOWS directory under the partition, we will find that there are many such folders, that is, the folder name is preceded by the "$” symbol, these folders are generally deleted by the installation patch or upgrade package Backup files, for our average users, upgrade packages generally do not uninstall them after installation, so we can still delete these folders, which saves a lot of space for the hard disk.

We all know that Windows XP provides us with a relatively powerful driver library. However, after the hardware is recognized and installed, we can delete the files backed up by this driver to save our hard disk space. Find the Driver Cache folder under the WINDOWS folder, enter the i386 folder under it, delete the driver file, which saves us more than 70 megabytes of hard disk space.

Forgetting a little bit of the most important thing, this should be said at the beginning, it is necessary to turn off the system restore, we must close it after we do not need to restore this function, the consequences of not closing it will It's terrible, you will find that all your partitions have a regular space reduction, which is due to the system's constant backup files to create restore points. So we must close the system restore and delete the restore point, as follows, right click on the properties on my computer to bring up the system properties, select System Restore, and then check the option to turn off the system restore on all drives, and finally click OK At this time, the system will prompt, the system restore point will be deleted, whether to close the system restore, this time we choose Yes, so the system restore will be closed.

Our ordinary users generally have no special requirements for the system, so many system components are not used by us. Some components are not visible in the Add/Remove Windows components. Then we need one. This way, most of the system components can be seen by us, so that we can add and remove Windows components according to our own needs. We set the view in the folder options to all the files shown, and display the system protection file, then make sure that we open the WINDOWS folder under the partition where Windows XP is located, find the INF folder in it, we will be in this folder Find the sysoc.inf file, we open this file with Notepad. Select Edit on the menu bar, then select the replacement, we will set the search content to “, hide & rdquo; (without the quotation marks) in the dialog box that is replaced, we fill in nothing, and then click replace. Exit Notepad and save. Then we open the Start menu, open the Control Panel, add the Remove Program, select Add to remove the Windows components, this time we can see the components that we can not see in the past, we can add and delete according to their own needs.

After doing the above work, if you still feel that Windows XP is too large, we can also start NTFS compression, and we can also delete the input method that is not commonly used. It is worth mentioning that there are two tasks we need to do, one is to set the virtual memory to other partitions, and the other is to transfer the temporary Internet folder to other partitions, which can increase the pressure on the C partition.

The specific method is as follows

The first thing we need to do is to set the virtual memory. In the right mouse button on my computer, bring up the property menu, select Properties, select Advanced in the Properties dialog box, and the Advanced page is divided into three columns, namely performance, user profile, startup and failure recovery, we are in the performance bar. Click on Settings, this will pop up a dialog box, we select the advanced column (as shown), we select the changes in the virtual memory below. At this time, a virtual memory dialog box will pop up (as shown in the figure)