Reduce resource usage Vista operating system slimming Method

Windows Vista occupies a large amount of system resources. The following methods can help us reduce the hard disk space occupied by Vista. Note: C indicates the system disk.

C: \ windows \ WEB \ Wallpaper

It contains windows built-in wallpaper. You can delete unnecessary wallpaper or transfer it to another disk (45.5 MB)

C: \ windows \ system32 \ driverstore \ filerepository

In this folder, the Windows built-in driver backup is used,Delete with caution(1.03 GB)

If you want to delete this folder directly, the system will prompt you that you do not have permission, so we need to get this permission. First, right-click on c: \ windows \ system32 \ driverstore \ filerepository-properties, and we will first obtain the ownership of this folder, click Security-advanced-owner, click Edit-advanced other users or groups, enter your username in the selected object name, or click Advanced-search now, select your username, and click OK, then we choose to replace the sub-container and object owner. If we do not select this, we only have the ownership of this folder, and there is no ownership of its sub-folder and the files in it, and then apply-OK, in this way, we have the ownership of this folder, because the previous ownership of this folder belongs to system and does not belong to us. Click "permission"> "edit"> "add" to enter your username or use "advanced"> "Search now", click "OK", and then click "edit" to check whether the user is fully controlled or allowed, replace the existing inherited permissions on all future generations with the permissions that can be inherited from this object (I rely on Microsoft, it's really complicated, TMD, you just need to apply it to all subfolders and files.) If you do not check the previous folder, you only have the permissions for the folder outside, and the folder in it still cannot be "completely controlled ", click application-OK-OK. Okay. You can delete the folder.

C: \ Boot

The Windows Startup interface in different languages can be deleted except ZH-CN. If you delete it directly, the system will prompt that you do not have the permission. The method is the same as above (13.3 m)

C: \ perflogs \ System \ diagnostics

This is where the test record file is stored after you have tested Windows Vista. It is stored in a folder based on different dates. You can delete unnecessary files (9.39 MB)

C: \ windows \ Downloaded Installations

There are someProgram(Dreamweaver .) The installation file will be decompressed to this folder during installation and can be deleted.

C: \ windows \ Help

You can delete the Help file. We recommend that you retain it for the time being, because you are not familiar with Vista and sometimes use it (105 MB)

C: \ windows \ ime

Input Method file. It is unclear which folder corresponds to which input method (136 MB)

C: \ windows \ Installer

Programs required for uninstallation and modification of the installed program. If you are sure that the program does not need to be uninstalled after installation, you can delete it. Otherwise, you may not be able to delete it later (but you can also reinstall it and delete it ), so delete it, depending on the number of installation programs, ranging from dozens to hundreds of MB.

C: \ windows \ winsxs

The total size of this folder is about 3-4 GB, which should be a system file. It is unclear what the purpose is.

C: \ windows \ winsxs \ backup

Some backup files can be deleted (353 MB)

C: \ programdata

Some programs are installed with files to be deleted. For example, after iTunes is installed, the c: \ programdata \ Apple Computer \ Installer cache \ iTunes 7.0.2.16 folder appears, it is actually an installation file, which can be deleted, but some files are required when the software is running and cannot be deleted randomly. You can delete the installation file if you look at it, this folder is dozens to hundreds of MB in size.

C: \ Users \ public

All user public folders, including some sample images and videos, can be deleted (217 MB), where C: \ Users \ public \ recorded TV \ sample media is a sample TV recording file (143 m) for Windows Media Center, C: \ Users \ public \ music \ sample music is the sample music (59 MB ),

C: \ Users \ public \ pictures \ Sample PicturesFor example image (4.7 MB), c: \ Users \ public \ videos for example video (9.6 MB)

C: \ windows \ WEB \ wallpaper (45 m)

C: \ windows \ system32 \ driverstore \ filerepository (1030 m)

C: \ windows \ Help (105 m)

C: \ users/Public (217 m)

Delete these four items, 1397 MB! With other things added, 2 GB space is saved, and user files are transferred to other disks, and page files are obtained to other disks. The C disk will not exceed 5 GB.

The following previous slimming Techniques(For reference)

After the Vista system is installed, it occupies a large amount of hard disk space. After the initial installation, the space occupied by folders is:

Build 2.12 GB (2,281,192,634 bytes)

Installedrepository 177 MB (186,577,063 bytes)

Packages 510 MB (535,020,852 bytes)

Program Files 628 MB (659,145,925 bytes)

Users

Windows 4.81 GB (5,172,100,125 bytes)

Test the operation in the Vista system

1. The installedrepository folder (177 MB) is deleted successfully.

2. Directly Delete the packages folder (510 MB ).

3. Directly Delete the build folder (2.12 GB), prompting that the folder cannot be deleted. Select "Skip" for all items, and delete the remaining 274 MB files.

Then test the system. Everything is normal.

This operation successfully reduced the weight of Vista by 2.5 GB !!!