Today's hard drives are getting bigger and cheaper, but the volume of software is growing faster, and there are still a lot of people still using 20GB and smaller hard drives. How to meet the requirements of the software to the hard disk? Start by playing again on a bloated Windows operating system.
All of the following are examples of SP1 installed in Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP, most of which are for Windows 2000 and Windows XP, and some operations may affect the stability of the operating system and be noted when used.
The first part:
After installing the operating system, you need to do the following first. Fortunately, the following methods, as long as the operation of no errors, and will not have a stable operation of the system has too much impact, so you can be assured to try.
1. Disabling System Restore: System Restore can be used to back up the system in peacetime and revert to a previous backup state after a problem has occurred. Although this function is more practical, but to occupy a large amount of hard disk space, usually each hard disk partition 12% of the free space will be used to save the restore point. If you do not need this feature, you can disable it.
Click the right mouse button on the "My Computer" icon and select Properties to open the System Properties dialog box. Then open the System Restore tab, select the check box to turn off System Restore on all drives, and determine.
2. Transfer paging file: The paging file is the virtual memory we were exposed to in Windows 98 before. By default, the paging file is placed in the root directory of the system disk. To save system disk space, we can transfer the paging file to other partitions, and if you have more physical memory (for example, more than 512MB), you can also set the maximum size of the paging file smaller.
Open the Advanced tab of the System properties, click the Performance Settings button, and then open the Advanced tab in a new pop-up window, click the Change button, and then reassign the location of the paging file in the Virtual Memory dialog box. Remember to click the "Settings" button next to the location you specified, and to change the system disk's initial and maximum settings to 0 (figure I).
Figure I
3. Temporary folder: Many software in the use process will generate temporary files, these files will be saved in the system disk in the temporary folder, the software is closed when the automatic removal. However, some software because of the design or abnormal exit, may not be able to completely empty the temporary files, as time passes 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 box, click on the "Environment variables" button, and then in the window of figure two to give "TEMP" and "TMP" two variables to specify the location, you need to note that 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 (the variable value here refers to the new path, such as D:/temp). The new temporary folder settings will take effect after you restart the system.
Figure II
4. Disable hibernation: Whether you are ready to use hibernation or not, Windows XP is enabled by default, which wastes a space in your system disk that is equivalent to the size of your physical memory. If you're not going to use hibernation, it's best to disable hibernation to save space.
Click the right mouse button in the blank space of the desktop and select Properties. Open the Display Properties dialog box, and then click the Power button on the Screen Saver tab to open the Power Properties dialog box, open the Hibernate tab, uncheck the "Enable Hibernate" option, and make sure that the new settings will take effect immediately.
5. Transfer IE cache: We have browsed the Web page will be saved in the IE cache, so that if you open the same page again, IE can directly from the cache call the page instead of connecting to the network server to speed up access time. But now that broadband is gaining popularity and there seems to be no need to use the cache on the hard drive to speed access, we can disable IE caching or move to another location.
Under IE's Tools menu, open the Internet Options dialog box, and then click "Settings" under "Temporary Internet Files", and if you are not ready to use IE caching, drag the "Use of disk space" slider to the left, otherwise you can click the "Move Folder" button, Assign the IE cache to a hard disk partition other than the system disk.
6. Uninstall unwanted components: Windows XP does not have a custom installation mode, so almost all components are installed into the system. If you can't use some of these components, you can also uninstall them. But with the H cabin case we can not uninstall anything, try the following methods:
You can open an INF file in WordPad by entering "%systemroot%/inf/sysoc.inf" in the run, which shows the installation and uninstallation of all Windows component programs, and we can modify this file to uninstall components that are not normally uninstalled at all. When you open this file, click Replace under the Edit menu in Notepad, and then in Find what, type hide (excluding quotes), then click the Replace All button on the right, and then save the file and close it. Re-open the Add-Remove Program in Control Panel, and then click Add Remove Windows Component, and now you can uninstall many components that are not previously allowed to uninstall. And if you need to use these components later, you can also reinstall them.
7. Transfer "My Documents": "My Documents" is a very special folder, by default all application-generated documents will be saved in this folder, and this folder is actually in the system disk. Transfer this folder to other partitions, while reducing the volume of the system disk, on the other hand, if the system suddenly crashes cannot be repaired, we can directly format the system disk to reload the system without worrying about how to back up the important files saved in My Documents.
Right-click on the My Documents folder, and then select Properties, open the Properties dialog box, and click "Move" to transfer "My Documents" to other partitions.
8. Turn off memory dumps: Although Windows 2000/XP is already stable, significant problems can still occur, and the external manifestation is a blue screen or panic. As a system administrator, you must be very interested to know why the system went wrong. Therefore, a memory dump technique is used in Windows 2000/XP, and if a major problem occurs, the system will first save the data in memory to a dump file before restarting, and the administrator can understand the system failure by analyzing the dump file. Obviously, there is no need to dump these files for our average user because we don't understand them at all. then disable it.
In the System Properties dialog box, under the Advanced tab, tap the Startup and Recovery button, and then select None in the Write debug information drop-down menu. And you can search all the "*.dmp" files and delete them. At the same time, enter "DrWtsn32" and return in the run, open the Watson Doctor tool, where you deselect the "Dump All Thread Context", "Append to existing log files" and "Create Crash dump Files" three options (figure III).
Figure Three
9. Transfer fonts: Usually Windows uses around 200MB of space to hold various system fonts, which are stored in the system disk, and we can transfer most of the fonts to other partitions, and do not affect the use of the font in the slightest.
We know that fonts are easy to install and uninstall, as long as they are copied to the Fonts folder or removed from the Fonts folder. Because we can choose to copy only the font file shortcuts when we install the fonts, we can transfer almost all of the fonts to other partitions by this method. For example, to install a new font, open the Fonts folder in the Windows directory, and then click "Install New Font" under the "File" menu, and then appear in Figure four, where we'll find the folder where we saved the font files, Then select all the fonts you want to install (you can press shift one time to select multiple font files at the time of selection), and finally deselect the "Copy Fonts to Fonts folder" option, and then click OK on the right. As you can see from the observation, the fonts that have been installed are quite different from other fonts in the display, and a small arrow with a similar shortcut is added to the font. We can also copy the fonts that are built into the system into other folders, then delete (uninstall) them in the Fonts folder, and then install the shortcuts using the above method. It should be noted that some important system fonts are not allowed to be unloaded (shown in the inability to remove them from the Fonts folder), so you'd better not move them.
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