Slimming your Windows XP

The hard drive is getting bigger and cheaper, but the software is growing faster, and many people still use 20GB and smaller hard drives. How to meet the software requirements for the hard disk? Start by thinking about the bloated Windows operating system.

The following operations are all based on the Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP with SP1 installed. Most of the techniques are for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Some operations may affect the stability of the operating system. Be careful when using it.

Part 1:

After installing the operating system, you need to do the following. Fortunately, the following methods, as long as there is no error in the operation, will not have too much impact on the stable operation of the system, so you can try it with confidence.

1. Disable System Restore: System Restore can back up the state of the system in peacetime and restore to the previous backup state after a problem occurs. Although this function is more practical, it takes up a lot of hard disk space. Usually, 12% of the available space of each hard disk partition is used to save the restore point. If you don't need this feature, you can disable it.

Right click on the "My Computer" icon and select Properties to open the System Properties dialog. Then open the "System Restore" tab, check the "Disable System Restore on all drives" checkbox and make sure.

2. Transfer paging files: The paging file is the virtual memory we used to touch in Windows 98. By default, the paging file is placed in the root directory of the system disk. In order to save system disk space, we can transfer the paging file to other partitions. If you have more physical memory (for example, 512MB or more), you can also The maximum value of the paging file is set smaller.

Open the "Advanced" tab of the system properties, click the "Performance Settings" button, then open the "Advanced" tab in the new pop-up window and click "Change" Button, then reassign the location of the paging file in the "virtual memory" dialog. Remember to click the "Set" button next to the location and change the initial and maximum settings of the system disk to 0 (Figure 1).

3. Temporary Folders: Many software will generate temporary files during use. These files will be saved in the temporary folder of the system disk and will be automatically cleared when the software is closed. However, some software may not be able to completely empty the temporary files due to design reasons or abnormal exit. Over time, the temporary folder will occupy a lot of hard disk space. Moving them out of the system disk is also easier to manage.

Also on the "Advanced" tab of the "System Properties" dialog, click the "Environment Variables" button and re-enter "TEMP" in the window of Figure 2. "TMP" Two variables specify the location, it should be noted that the environment variables are divided into the current user's environment variables and system variables, respectively, to do the same settings. Select each variable and click "Edit" to reassign the variable value (where the variable value refers to the new path, such as d:\\temp). The new temporary folder settings will take effect after you restart the system.

4. Disable hibernation: Windows XP is enabled by default when you are hibernating, which wastes a space on your system disk that is comparable to your physical memory. . If you are not going to use hibernation, it is best to disable hibernation to save space.

Right click on the blank space on the desktop and select Properties to open the Display Properties dialog box. Then click the "Power" button on the "Screensaver" tab to open the Power Properties dialog box, then Open the "Hibernate" tab, uncheck the "Enable Hibernate" option, and the new settings will take effect immediately.

5. Transfer IE cache: The webpages we browsed will be saved in the IE cache, so if you open the same webpage again in the future, IE can directly call the webpage from the cache instead of connecting to the web server. To speed up access time. But now that broadband is becoming more popular, it seems that there is no need to use the cache on the hard disk to speed up access, then we can disable the IE cache or move to another location.

Open the "Internet Options" dialog box under IE's Tools menu, then click "Set" under "Internet Temporary Files", if you are not ready to use IE Cache, drag "Use disk space" slider to the far left, otherwise you can click the "move folder" button to assign the IE cache to the hard disk partition outside the system disk.

6. Uninstalling Unwanted Components: Windows XP does not have a custom installed mode, so almost all components will be installed into the system. If some of these components are not available to you, you can also uninstall them. However, we can't uninstall anything in the same h cabin, try the following method: