Optimize Windows XP [reprinted]

For general users, we may never use some features, or some files are too redundant for general users. From now on, we will make some basic optimizations for Windows XP step by step.

After installing XP, we will find that our hard disk has occupied more than 3 GB. The first thing we need to do is to lose weight on the system. Delete a series of files that are of little significance to normal users.

First, let's start with the problems left over from the installation. During the installation process, the system can back up some files for Windows XP to update files, generally, after Windows XP is installed and all the software and hardware are installed, in fact, only a few files need to be updated on Windows XP, but these backup files occupy a lot of space. The first step is to delete these backup files. Open the Start menu and select Run. In the dialog box, enter "sfc.exe/purgecache" (excluding quotation marks) to run the command. a command prompt is displayed, the system will delete the files about 290 MB.

Open the C drive of the system (your Windows XP is installed in the C partition), select a tool on the menu bar, select the folder option, and select view, select to display all the files and folders in the hidden files and folders. Open the windows directory in the partition and we will find many folders with the "$" symbol before and after the folder name, these folders are usually installed with patches or the deleted backup files left behind by the upgrade package. For our users, the upgrade packages are generally not uninstalled after they are installed, so these folders can still be deleted, this saves a lot of space for the hard disk.

We all know that Windows XP provides us with a powerful driver library. However, after the hardware is identified and installed, we can delete the backup files of this driver to save our hard disk space, find the driver cache folder in the Windows folder, go to the i386 folder under it, and delete the driver file, which saves us more than 70 MB of hard disk space.