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Nowadays, hard disks are getting bigger and cheaper, but the volume of software is growing faster, and many still use 20 GB or smaller hard disks. How can I meet the hard disk requirements of software? In a bloated Windows operating system, make up your mind.

The following operations take the Simplified Chinese version of Windows XP with SP1 installed as an example. Most of the skills are for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Some operations may affect the stability of the operating system, pay attention to the usage.

Part 1:

After installing the operating system, you must first perform the following operations. Fortunately, the following methods do not affect the stable operation of the system as long as there are no errors in the operation, so you can try it with confidence.

1. Disable System Restoration: You can back up the status of the system at ordinary times and restore the system to the previous backup status after a problem occurs. Although this function is practical, it occupies a large amount of hard disk space. Generally, 12% of the available space for each hard disk partition is used to save the Restore Point. If you do not need this function, you can disable it.

Right-click the "my computer" icon and select Properties to open the System Properties dialog box. Open the "System Restore" tab, select the "Disable System Restore on All Drives" check box, and click OK.

2. transfer a paging file: The paging file is the virtual memory we used to access in Windows 98. By default, paging files are stored in the root directory of the system disk. To save space on the system disk, we can transfer the paging files to other partitions, if your physical memory is large (for example, MB or more), you can set the maximum size of the paging file to a smaller value.

Open the "advanced" tab of System Properties, click the "Performance Settings" button, open the "advanced" tab in the new pop-up window, and click the "change" button, in the "virtual memory" dialog box, specify the storage location of the paging files. Remember to click "set" next to the specified position, and change the initial value and maximum value of the system disk to 0 (figure 1 ).

Figure 1
3. Temporary folders: Many software may generate temporary files during use, which will be saved in the temporary folder of the system disk and automatically cleared when the software is disabled. However, some software may not be able to completely clear temporary files due to design reasons or abnormal exit, and temporary folders will occupy a large amount of hard disk space over time. Removing them from the system disk is easier to manage.

Similarly, on the "advanced" tab of the "System Properties" dialog box, click "environment variables, in the window in Figure 2, specify the location for the "Temp" and "tmp" variables. Note that the environment variables are divided into the current user's environment variables and system variables, make the same settings respectively. Select each variable, and then click "edit" to re-specify the variable value (the variable value here refers to the new path, such as D:/temp. After the system is restarted, the new Temporary Folder settings take effect.

Figure 2

4. Disable sleep: whether or not you are about to use sleep, Windows XP is enabled by default. This will waste a block of space on your system disk that is equal to your physical memory size. If you do not want to use sleep, it is best to disable sleep to save space.

Right-click the blank area on the desktop and select properties. The displayed Properties dialog box is displayed.ProgramClick the "power" button on the "tab to open the" power properties "dialog box, and then open the" Sleep "tab to cancel the" enable sleep "option. After confirmation, the new settings will take effect immediately.

5. transfer ie cache: all web pages we browsed will be saved in the IE cache, So if you open the same web page again later, ie can directly call the webpage from the cache instead of connecting to the network server to speed up access. However, broadband is becoming more and more popular, and it seems that there is no need to use the cache on the hard disk to accelerate access, so we can disable the IE cache or move it to another location.

Open the "Internet Options" dialog box under the IE tool menu, and click "Settings" under "Temporary Internet Files". If you are not prepared to use IE cache, drag the "disk space used" slider to the left. Otherwise, you can click "Move folder" to specify the IE cache to a hard disk partition other than the system disk.

6. Uninstall unnecessary components: Windows XP does not have a custom installation mode, so almost all components will be installed in the system. If you cannot use some of these components, you can also uninstall them. However, We Cannot uninstall anything in the same H-class. Try the following methods:

Enter "% SystemRoot %/INF/sysoc. INF "and press enter to open an INF file on the WordPad. The installation and uninstallation of all Windows component programs are displayed, however, we can modify this file to uninstall components that normally cannot be detached. Open this file, click "replace" under the "edit" menu in notepad, and enter "hide" (excluding quotation marks) in "search content ), click "replace all" on the right, save the file, and close it. Re-open the add and delete programs in the control panel and click "add and delete Windows Components". Now, you can directly uninstall many components that are not allowed to be detached before. If you need to use these components in the future, you can reinstall them.

7. transfer "My Documents": "My Documents" is a special folder. By default, all documents generated by the application are saved in this folder, this folder is actually in the system disk. Transferring this folder to other partitions can reduce the volume of the system disk. If the system crashes suddenly and cannot be repaired, we can directly format the system disk and reinstall the system, instead of worrying about how to back up important files saved in my documents.

Right-click the "My Documents" folder, select Properties, open the Properties dialog box, and click "move ", you can transfer "My Documents" to other partitions.

8. Disable the memory dump: Although Windows 2000/XP is already stable, there may still be major problems, and the external performance is blue screen or crash. As a system administrator, I'm sure I want to know why the system went wrong. Therefore, a memory dump technology is used in Windows 2000/XP. If a major problem occurs, the system first saves the data in the memory to a dump file before restarting, the administrator can analyze the dump file to learn about system faults. Obviously, for general users, there is no need to dump these files because we don't understand them at all. Disable it.

Under the "advanced" tab of the "System Properties" dialog box, click "Start and fault recovery", and select "NONE" from the "Write debugging information" drop-down menu ". You can also search for all "*. dmp" files and delete them. At the same time, enter "drwtsn32" in the operation and press enter to open Dr Watson's tool, cancel the three options here: "dump all thread context", "attach to existing Log File", and "create dump file" (Figure 3 ).

Figure 3

9. transfer Font: Generally, Windows stores various system fonts in about MB space. These fonts are stored on the system disk, and we can also transfer most of these fonts to other partitions, the font usage is not affected at all.

We know that the installation and uninstallation of fonts are simple. You only need to copy the fonts to the fonts folder or delete them from the fonts folder. Because we can select the shortcut to copy only the font file when installing the font, this method can be used to transfer almost all fonts to other partitions. Take the new font installation as an example. Open the fonts folder in the Windows directory and click "install new font" under the "file" menu. The page shown in Figure 4 is displayed, find the folder where the font file is saved and select all fonts to be installed (you can press shift to select multiple font files at a time ), finally, deselect "Copy font to fonts folder" and click "OK" on the right ". From the observation, we can see that the installed font is completely different from other fonts, and a small arrow similar to the shortcut is added to the font. We can also copy the built-in fonts of the system to other folders first, then delete (unmount) them under the fonts folder, and then use the above method to install shortcuts. Note that important system fonts are not allowed to be detached (as you cannot delete them from the fonts folder). Do not change these fonts.