The size of the windows XP installation disc is very large, which occupies more places after installation. It is above GB. Although the hard disk is cheap now, there are many things in the installation file that we don't need. In the future backup system, the backup file is too large. we can use nLite, a free software, to lose weight on xp. nLite needs.. net Framework. Therefore, you must install nLite before installing nLite. net Framewore1.1 or later. nLite installation is very simple and will not be described here. before losing weight, copy the xp installation file from the installation disc to a folder in a partition on the hard disk.
Run nLite on the desktop or all the Start Menu. When you run nLite for the first time, you must set the language. Of course, select "Simplified Chinese" and click "forward, go to the next step of the wizard and select the location of the Windows XP installation file (as shown in ):
Click the Browse button to open the folder with the XP installation file. nLite will automatically scan and obtain some information, as shown in :)
Click the forward button to go to the next step. In this step, you can load the last modification information or some preset settings. Because this is the first time, we directly click the forward button to select the task. For example:
A total of eight tasks can be set. We can see that this software is still very powerful. We only want to lose weight for xp, So we choose: "Component removal", "unattended", "optimized", and "bootable ISO image" tasks. The "bootable ISO image" task allows you to create a bootable installation disc. Click the forward button.
In the "component removal" task, sometimes some useful components may be removed due to our carelessness. nLite will let us protect some functional components, we select some protection components as needed, such:
After selecting the protection component, I can start to remove unnecessary components, as shown in:
In, click the plus sign "+" to expand and select the component to be removed. If the component is displayed in red, do not remove it, as shown in:
Select the component to be removed, and click "Forward" to go to the "unattended installation" task settings, as shown in. There are seven tabs in total, which can be selected as needed, unattended mode: Select FullUnattened. the settings on the tab are as follows:
After setting, click the forward button. For "optimization" task settings, there are four settings, according to your own needs, such:
Click the forward button. nLite prompts whether to start processing. Click Yes to start processing. As shown in:
After processing, the system prompts that the precision is reduced by 406.13 MB. Click "Forward" to create a bootable ISO file and record it as a CD to start installation. The ISO image creation process is shown in.
Nlite also has other features. You can practice more on your own!