Windows XP system nine weight loss measures

Windows XP has been in use 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, compress 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. 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 defaults to the operating system installed some system components, and a large part of these components are simply not available to you, hard disk space is not enough friends 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 windowsinfsysoc.inf with Notepad and using the Find/Replace function. The "hide" characters in the are all replaced 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.

Fourth, delete the input method

For many users, the input method of Windows XPt system is not all suitable for their own use, such as IMJP8_1 Japanese input method, IMKR6_1 Korean input method, if you don't need it, we can delete it. The input method is located in the windowsime folder, which takes up 88M of space.

Five, delete the system backup file

We can enter sfc.exe /purgecache in the run box of the start menu, and then run it, the role of this command is to immediately clear "Windows File Protection" The file cache frees up the space it occupies, which is nearly 300M.

Six, clear system temporary files

Temporary files of the system are generally stored in two locations: a Temp folder in a Windows installation directory; the other is Y:Documents and Settings "Users Name "Local SettingsTemp folder (Y: is the partition where the system is located). Files in both locations can be deleted directly.

VII, delete the driver backup

XP will automatically back up the hardware driver, but after the hardware driver is installed correctly, the general hardware changes are not likely, so you can also consider this Backup delete, the file is located in the windowsdriver cachei386 directory, the name is driver.cab, you can delete it directly, usually this file is 74M.

VIII, turn off hibernation support

Hibernation function will take up a lot of hard disk space, if you use less, you can close it, the method of closing is: open the "Control Panel", double-click " Power Options, select the Hibernate tab in the Power Options Properties dialog box that pops up, and deselect the Enable Hibernate check box.

IX. Clearing Temporary Internet Files

Regularly deleting a large number of temporary Internet files generated during Internet access will save a lot of hard disk space.

Open Internet Explorer, select "Internet Options" from the "Tools" menu, select the "General" tab in the pop-up dialog box, and click "Delete Files" in the "Temporary Internet Files" column. Button, and in the "Delete Files" dialog box, select the "Delete all offline content" check box, click the "OK" button.