Step by step to optimize Windows XP

For the average user, we may never be able to use some of the features, or some files for our general users in the presence of the hard disk is really redundant, then from now on, we will step-by-step for our Windows XP to do some basic optimization.

After the installation of XP, we will find that our hard drive has been occupied by more than 3 G, the first thing we want to do is to lose weight on the system. Delete a series of files that are not significant to the average user.

First, we start with the problem of installation, the system in order to make Windows XP back up some files for Windows XP to be able to update the file, generally for the system is ready to run, install Windows XP, and all kinds of software and hardware are installed, There are so few files that need to be updated by Windows XP, but these backup files take up a little space, so the first step is to delete the backup files. We open the Start menu, choose to Run, in the dialog box to enter "Sfc.exe/purgecache" (without quotes) running, the system will pop up a command prompt, this time, the system will be the 290 trillion or so files deleted.

Open the System C disk (your Windows XP installed in C partition) we select the tool on the menu bar, select Folder Options, select View, hide files and folders in the selection display all files and folders, we open the partition under the Windows directory, We will find that there are many such folders that have "$" symbols both before and after the name of the folder, these folders are usually installed patches or upgrade packages left over the deletion of backup files, for our average user, upgrade package after installation will not normally uninstall them, so these folders we can still delete, This will also save a lot of space for the hard drive.

As we all know, Windows XP provides us with a more powerful driver library, but after the hardware is identified and installed, we can remove this driver backup files to save our hard disk space, we found the driver Cache folder under Windows folder, Enter the i386 folder under it, remove the driver file, which saves us more than 70 megabytes of hard disk space.

Forget the point. Most important, this should be said at the outset, just be sure to turn off System Restore, we do not have to restore the system after this feature is sure to close it, do not close its consequences will be very scary, you will find that all of your partition regular space shrinks, this is due to the system constantly backup files to create restore points. So we have to turn off System Restore and delete restore points, the specific method is as follows, the right key attribute in My computer call out the System properties, select System Restore, and then turn the System Restore option on all drives before you take the bait, and finally the system will be prompted, and the System restore point will be deleted. Whether to turn off System Restore, this time we choose to be, so that System Restore is turned off.

Our ordinary users generally do not have any special requirements for the system, so many system components we do not use, and some components we add/Remove Windows components are not visible so we need a way, so that most of the system components can be seen, Allows us to add and remove Windows components as needed. We set the view inside the folder options to be all the files, display the system protection files, and then make sure that we open the Windows folder under the Windows XP partition and locate the INF folder. We'll find sysoc.inf this file in this folder and we'll open this file in Notepad. Select Edit on the menu bar, and then select the replacement, we set the find content to ", hide" (without quotes) in the replaced dialog box, we do not fill in, and then click Replace. Quit Notepad and save it. Then we open the Start menu, open the Control Panel, add the removal program, choose to add Delete Windows components, this time we can see the previous components, we can add to delete according to their needs.

If you still feel that Windows XP is too bulky, we can also start the NTFS compression feature, and we can also delete the less commonly used input methods. It is worth mentioning that there are two things we have to do, one is to set the virtual memory to other partitions, as well as the Temporary Internet folder to other partitions, so as to reduce the pressure of C partition.