How to free the C drive space in Windows system

1. Grasp the principle of transferring data

Try to move a single, large volume of data so that space is significantly more effective and can be easily found in the event of an error. If you are moving data that contains many subdirectories and multiple files, not only is the effect not obvious, it is not easy to find out which files are being moved because of the problem.

2. Move the file come with me.

(1) Moving virtual memory

In the system partition, the largest removable file is the virtual memory, which is usually 1.5 times times the physical memory of the system. If you are a user of Windows 98/me, you can change the virtual memory settings directly in the system options. How to set up virtual memory I believe you shrimp, shrimp have already learned, here no more say. Note: After modifying the system virtual memory, it is necessary to restart the computer changes to take effect; in Windows 2000/XP, the system allows multiple partitions to have virtual memory at the same time, so after changing the virtual memory location, be sure to select the partition where the virtual memory is originally located, and then select "No Paging File" Radio button, and then click the Settings button.

(2) Close hibernation file

The second large file in the system partition is a hibernation file. By default, the hibernate file is placed on the Windows installation partition, and there is no option to change the path. The user can only disable the hibernation feature by opening the control Panel, double-clicking the Power Options icon, then selecting the Hibernate tab, emptying the check box before the Enable Hibernation option, and then clicking OK to exit, and Windows will automatically delete the file. Of course, if you need to enable hibernation in the future, simply check the box before the "Enable hibernation" option is selected on this page.

(3) Transfer of temporary documents

The third-largest class of files in the system partition are temporary files for windows and IE. Includes the required buffers for downloading and browsing, temporary files generated by the print task, or system backups, and so on. We can move the IE Temp folder in the IE option by opening IE, clicking the Internet Options command under the Tools menu, clicking the Settings button under the General tab, and then clicking the Move Folder button in the dialog box that opens as shown in Figure 1, in the open browse dialog box, specify a new folder that you have built on the other partitions.

Next, set the storage path for the system Temp folder. Windows 98 Users if the system is installed in the C drive, then the temporary files are stored by default in the C:temp directory, we can change the Autoexec.bat file "set Temp=c:temp" to "set Temp=d:temp" (where D: Temp can be any folder that already exists on the hard disk partition, so you can set the temp file on the D drive. Windows 2000/XP Users can open the System Properties, Advanced tab, and then click the Environment Variables button to open the interface shown in Figure 2, first click in the System Variables window to select the variables that need to be modified (in this case, "TEMP" and "TMP" two variables). Then click the Edit button in the middle of the dialog box (note: Click the Edit button below the window in the dialog box to change where the current user's variable is saved, and click the Edit button below the window below the dialog box to modify the location where the variables for all users who use the operating system are saved). Click the OK button to exit when you have finished setting up.

3. Mobile program please come with me.

(1) Move the program under Windows XP

If you are a user of Windows XP, then moving the program is fairly straightforward: Click Start, All Programs, accessories, and the File Transfer and Setup Wizard commands under System Tools to open the File Conversion and Setup Wizard. For instructions on how to use the wizard, you can press the F1 key on the desktop to open the Windows XP Help and Support Center, and then, after search, type the file conversion and Setup Wizard to search.

(2) Mobile program with PartitionMagic

Windows 98 users can easily move programs by using its Magicmover tool after the full installation of PartitionMagic. Click the Magicmover command under Start, Programs, PowerQuest PartitionMagic to open the Magicmover main interface, then browse the drives and folders in the list box and select the application you want to move. Magicmover will automatically scan all the drives, automatically analyze your selection, after scanning, in the "Select the destination folder" box to indicate where to move the application to place, determine the new path and follow the prompts to move. During the move, Magicmover automatically updates the registry and automatically completes related links. When the move is complete, Magicmover displays summary information about the operations that have been performed, including the name of the application and the size of the file being moved, and so on.

(3) using the Norton Toolkit Uninstall and recovery features

The Norton Toolkit (Norton Utilities) is a very popular system tool, and we can use its CleanSweep tools to subtly implement the application transfer, without having to reinstall the program, and of course the personalization of the application will be retained.

Select "CleanUp" in CleanSweep and click "Uninstall Wizard" to uninstall the program first. As shown in Figure 3, select the program you want to uninstall in the list of programs, click the "Next" button when selected, and the program will let you specify the location of the backup file, by default, the subfolder in the Norton CleanSweep folder "Backup". Click "Next" button, CleanSweep will ask if you want to confirm each item to delete, general select "NO", click "Next" button, in the next window click "Finish" button to start the program uninstall and backup.

After the program has been uninstalled, we can use its recovery function to transfer the program: click the "Programs" button in the CleanSweep main interface, select "Restore Wizard", the program will ask if you want to restore the last uninstall of the program, select "Yes" and click " Next ", the default value is to recover all files just deleted, click" Next "will prompt the user if there is the same file to overwrite, accept the default option. The next step is critical: The program asks the user if they want to restore the program to their original location. Since our goal is to move the application, the "No,let me Select the location" should be selected in the interface shown in Figure 4 (No, let me choose my own position).

After clicking "Next", you can select the target path after the program is restored in the Open dialog box!

Then click on the "Next" button, until the "Finish" button appears in the window, click the button to start the program recovery, after the recovery is complete, then follow the prompts to remove the program backup. At this point, the program you selected is moved to a new location.

Special note: By and by, this method can be used to transplant a program to another computer: when the "Back Wizard", the backup on the target computer, after the target computer installed CleanSweep with the "Restore Wizard" function, Follow the method described earlier to restore this backup. Note If a folder with the same name exists in the target partition, it should be renamed and then restored, otherwise the contents of the original folder will be overwritten.

Clear file Adjustment partition

If the user is still running out of disk space after moving the data, there are the last two tricks to clear the file and adjust the partition. However, both of these methods have a certain risk, it is recommended that users should not adopt.

If you must adopt the method of purging files, it is recommended to use optimization software such as "Windows Optimization Master" to implement, note that before purging files, be sure to make a backup, if you want to adjust the hard disk partition method to resolve the system partition disk space problem, it is recommended to use "Hard disk Partition Wizard" to do, However, it also exists with the Chinese long file name compatibility is not good, in the middle of the crash or adjustment after unable to access the directory, etc., so be sure to back up the data and hard disk partition table before use.

We have introduced so many mobile data operations, although in theory the tool software will automatically be done for us, but we should also consider the remedy in case of error. The best way to do this is to back up the registry, copy a copy of the program to the other partitions so that if something goes wrong, you can simply copy the program to the original path and then restore the registry.

However, the most perfect way is to pre-plan the partition of the hard disk. If the hard disk space is abundant, C drive should reserve 2GB space when installing Windows 98/me, the C drive should reserve 4~5GB space when Windows 2000 is installed, and the C drive should reserve 6~7GB space when installing Windows XP. Once the partition scheme is determined, the hard disk partition table should be backed up in time, and try not to change the partition operation.

Most of the software now uses standard Windows installation mode, and users simply double-click the Setup.exe file to install it easily. However, this way of installation also has a disadvantage: Many programs are installed by default to the operating system partition (the vast majority of users choose the C-drive), so after a period of time, the C-drive space will inevitably become smaller. Perhaps unconsciously, you find that the C-drive is only hundreds of trillion or even dozens of trillion! Re-partitioning and formatting the hard drive is fine, but it's cumbersome to operate, and there are many limitations. What most users want is to "eliminate" the lack of disk space in the event that the original system and data are not damaged. In this article, let's explore the principles, methods, and techniques of disk space release.

The most feasible way to free up space on a system partition full of data is, of course, to transfer data. But before we move the data, we should be aware of what is in the system partition, which ones can be moved and which cannot be moved. Because moving data or files rashly, it is likely to cause the program to find no path or lack of necessary dynamic links, database files and illegal operation.

In general, the removable data is the option that Windows or the application itself has provided-such as Windows allows you to set the location of the virtual memory, IE allows you to set the location where the cache files are saved, and some system folder path settings are hidden in the registration table. It needs to be changed manually or by tools. There is the document, mail these files generated by the application, generally can be moved. Files that cannot be moved are relatively complex, and NTFS partitions, compressed file partitions with Windows compression, typically have a large amount of data that is not removable and are carefully handled.