Windows XP system nine weight loss measures

        Windows XP has been used for a long time, and you will find that your hard disk space is slowly decreasing. What should we do in the face of this situation? The nine weight loss measures provided in this article are to let you recover the hard disk space swallowed up by Windows XP without affecting system performance.

First, turn off the system restore

System restore function takes a long time, it will take up a lot of hard disk space. Therefore, it is necessary to manually set it to reduce the amount of hard disk usage.

Open the System Properties dialog, select the System Restore option, and select the Turn off system restore on all drives check box to turn off System Restore. You can also set restores only on the disk or partition where the system is located. First select the partition where the system is located, click the "Configure" button, in the pop-up dialog box, cancel the "Close the system restore of this drive" option, and set the amount of disk space for system restore.

Second, compressed NTFS drive, file or folder

If your hard disk is using NTFS file system
, the space is really tight, you can also consider enabling NTFS compression Features. Right-click the drive you want to compress - Properties - General - Compress Disk to save disk space, then click OK and select the desired option in Confirm Property Changes. This saves about 20% of your hard drive space.

Third, uninstall unusable components

XP default operation system installation
some system components, and a large part of these components are simply not available to you Friends who don't have enough hard disk space can also consider uninstalling them in "Add/Remove Windows Components". However, some of the components XP are hidden by default. You can't find them in "Add/Remove Windows Components". You can do this by opening the file \\windows\\inf\\sysoc.inf with Notepad. The /replace function replaces all the "hide" characters in the file with null. In this way, all the hidden attributes of the components are removed. After saving and exiting the "Add-Remove Programs", you will see a lot of options that you could not see, and delete those components that you can't use. For example, Internat messenger service, fax service, Windows messenger, code table, etc., can make up about 50MB of space.

Windows XP system has been used for a long time, you will find that your hard disk space is slowly decreasing. What should we do in the face of this situation? The nine weight loss measures provided in this article are to let you recover the hard disk space swallowed up by Windows XP without affecting system performance.

First, turn off the system restore

System restore function takes a long time, it will take up a lot of hard disk space. Therefore, it is necessary to manually set it to reduce the amount of hard disk usage.

Open the System Properties dialog, select the System Restore option, and select the Turn off system restore on all drives check box to turn off System Restore. You can also set restores only on the disk or partition where the system is located. First select the partition where the system is located, click the "Configure" button, in the pop-up dialog box, cancel the "Close the system restore of this drive" option, and set the amount of disk space for system restore.

Second, compressed NTFS drive, file or folder

If your hard disk is using NTFS file system
, the space is really tight, you can also consider enabling NTFS compression Features. Right-click the drive you want to compress - Properties - General - Compress Disk to save disk space, then click OK and select the desired option in Confirm Property Changes. This saves about 20% of your hard drive space.

Third, uninstall unusable components

XP default operation system installation
some system components, and a large part of these components are simply not available to you Friends who don't have enough hard disk space can also consider uninstalling them in "Add/Remove Windows Components". However, some of the components XP are hidden by default. You can't find them in "Add/Remove Windows Components". You can do this by opening the file \\windows\\inf\\sysoc.inf with Notepad. The /replace function replaces all the "hide" characters in the file with null. In this way, all the hidden attributes of the components are removed. After saving and exiting the "Add-Remove Programs", you will see a lot of options that you could not see, and delete those components that you can't use. For example, Internat messenger service, fax service, Windows messenger, code table, etc., can make up about 50MB of space.