Windows XP Pull out the killer who occupies the hard drive

I recently to a friend installed, the new computer home after I helped him install the system, now of course, the preferred Win XP. When you want to partition the system disk, the original thought of an XP system installation is to occupy less than 2G space, give it a 4G is enough. But did not expect to use a period of time after he came to me, the taskbar always tip system disk space is insufficient!

When the flattery arrived, found that the system disk C is really not enough space. Look at C disk, found that the friend did not go to C disk too much software installed too many files, the use of disk cleaning tools to clean up, the rest of the C disk space is only about 400M. A win XP 1G more, plus a friend installed a little software and stored files are less than 3G, then another 1G space where it?

The shooter.

Select all the files under C disk to see their size, which is only 2G in size. In view of folder Options, remove the "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)" option and select "Show All Files and folders" in the Hide and folder options. Finally found the problem, in the C-packing directory found Hiberfil.sys and Pagefile.sys these two files surprisingly large, view the size, found two files actually have more than 700 m! It looks like they're messing with each other.

Kill the murderer.

Let's take a look at Hiberfil.sys this file, look at its size, found that after the strange phenomenon, its size is just 256M, how can the size of the same size as memory? A coincidence? This is also a coincidence, of course not, the author found that as long as the WinXP sleep function, the file will exist, the system in the sleep time to save the information in memory to the hard disk of the Hiberfil.sys file, to ensure that the wake-up can be restored to the state before hibernation. To tell you the truth. The hibernate function of XP really does not have the benefit, occupies the space to be many, if and the motherboard ACPI incompatible also can cause the shutdown abnormal phenomenon. You must close it, turn on Control Panel → Power Options → hibernate, and remove the "Enable Hibernate" option (Figure 2). At this time again to C disk found Hiberfil.sys file has disappeared.

Then look at Pagefile.sys this file, it is the System page file (that is, the well-known virtual memory file), its size depends on the number of open programs and you originally set the minimum maximum page file, is constantly changing, sometimes may only dozens of m, sometimes up to 600M or more. Now that the file has made the system partition tense, we will adjust it to other free partitions (e disk has more than 10 g unused space, put it to e disk). Select "Control panel → system → advanced", click the Settings button in the Performance area, select Advanced → change, select the partition in the Open Virtual Memory Settings window, select No paging file to remove the system partition (Figure 3), and then select E disk. Select "Custom Size" If you want to manually set the minimum maximum of memory memory, and select "System managed Partition" If you want the system to manage it yourself.

Tips: Remove a section of the page file and set up a section of the page after the click of the next "Settings" button, so that your settings to take effect, directly click the window "OK" button is not.

After the above settings, C disk under the Hiberfil.sys and Pagefile.sys files disappeared, the system partition space finally regained its true nature.