How to save the hard disk space of vista system?

Windows Vista takes up a lot of hard disk space after installation, install it to stay at least 20G of hard disk space to normal use, in fact, after installing the system, you can turn off some useless functions and files in the system, such as the system's sleep function, thumbnail and System Restore, to make a lot of hard disk space, You can also delete some of the unused installation files. Below we will explain how to close these features and delete the files, to solve how to save the Vista system hard disk space problem.

　　First, turn off System Restore

System Restore can help people revert to a previously normal state when there is a problem with the system. It will generate multiple restore points in the computer, but it takes up a lot of hard disk space, in fact, we just do a C-disk ghost backup can be, "System Restore" function can be canceled it.

Open the Control Panel, enter system in the search box in the upper-right corner of the window, and then click the "Turn on or off automatically create restore point" link in the search results.

This will pop up a "System Properties" window, do not want to enable the "System Restore" feature partition in front of the check out, in the pop-up window click the "Turn off System Restore" button, and then click "OK" button on it.

If you do not want to turn off the System Restore function, just want to remove some of the System restore point to free the hard disk space, that can be done.

Open the Computer window on the desktop, right-click the system installation disk, such as C disk, then select "Properties" in the pop-up menu, click the "Disk Cleanup" button in the "Disk Properties" window, and click "Files for all users on this computer" in the window that appears, the system will display the Disk Cleanup window, click The "Other Options" tab and click the "Clean" button under "System Restore and Shadow" to remove it.

　　Second, turn off thumbnail display

There is a dynamic icon function in Vista, the file can be displayed in the form of icons, such as Word file on the first page of the document as an icon, video files on the first frame of the picture as a file icon, very good-looking, but also can facilitate our search, but also have shortcomings, because the system for the file icon, It takes a lot of time to generate thumbnails for each file, and it also saves them automatically, which takes up a lot of hard disk space and system resources. If your computer is not configured well, you can turn off this fancy feature.

Open the Computers window, press the ALT key to display the Window menu, then click on the Menu "Tools-Folder Options", click "View" tab in the pop-up window, and then cancel the "Always show icon, never show thumbnails" hook in front of the "Advanced" settings option.

　　Third, turn off the system Hibernate function

By default, the Vista system turns on the system Hibernate feature, which causes the system disk to have a dormant file that is about the same size as physical memory, and takes up a lot of hard disk space. In fact, this feature is not usually used, it is better to turn off this function.

Press the "Win key +r" key combination to open the "Run" window, enter "PowerCfg Ch off" in the window, and then press ENTER to turn off the system's hibernate function.

　　Four, delete the useless file

In Vista, there are a number of files that can be removed because these files are left at the time of installation. Here are a few files or folders that you can delete directly, or you can remove them and free up nearly 1GB of hard disk space.

　　V. Delete the "C:userspublic" folder

Here are some sample pictures, videos, and so on that you can delete them, where "c:userspublicrecorded TV sample Media" is a sample TV recording file for Windows Media Center, 145MB, "C: Userspublicmusic Sample Music "For example, there are 60MB.

　　Vi. Delete the "C:windowswinsxsbackup" folder

This folder contains some backup files, you can delete it, there are more than 350 MB.

　　Vii. Delete the "c:windowshelp" folder

The system's Help folder, if you do not need to use the help of the system, you can delete it, there are more than 100 MB size.

　　Viii. Delete the "c:windowsdownloaded Installations" folder

Some applications will be installed to extract the installation files into this folder, delete it has no effect on the system.