From five aspects to Win XP to lose weight

Windows XP has brought us a visual enjoyment, rich and colorful features. At the same time, it is also ruthlessly swallowing up our hard disk space. If you don't take the appropriate action, you will soon find that the remaining hard disk space will be less and less! The purpose of this article is to help you recover the hard disk space wasted by Windows XP without affecting the performance of the system.

1, System Restore

System Restore Function It can undo our harmful changes to the computer and restore its settings and performance. System Restore returns your computer to an earlier time (called a restore point) without losing our most recent work, such as documents, emails, favorites lists, and history. This was originally a good feature, but the hard disk space it consumes is really amazing.

Click Start→All Programs→Accessories→System Tools→System Restore to enter the system restore main window. Click “System Restore Settings” on the left to enter the System Restore Settings window. First, make sure your XP is working properly. Put a checkmark on the front of the "Resume System Restore on all drives" and click OK, so XP will delete the backup system restore point and free up the hard disk space.

2, font installation optimization

Sometimes you need to install a variety of different fonts, but some fonts themselves are very large, especially Chinese fonts, generally around 10M, once installed too much Fonts, hard disk space will be bloated, in fact, we can optimize at the time of installation, the effect is no longer copy new fonts to the system disk.

Create a directory on a blank drive of Win XP: name, drive name is arbitrary, then put all the fonts that need to be installed into this directory, then enter in "Start" → "Run" Fonts, open the font directory, open "File" → "Install New Font" in turn, find the D:\\NewFonts directory in the dialog box that appears, and then remove the "√" in front of "Copy the font to the Fonts folder", and finally Check the font you want to install and OK.

3. Delete some unused input methods

In the Control Panel→Regional and Language Options→Language tab, remove the checkmark in front of “Install files for East Asian languages” and click OK. Prompt to delete the unwanted language, restart and then delete some unnecessary input methods in the \\ime\\ folder under the Windows XP installation directory, such as: chtime, imjp8_1, imkr6_1 three directories, respectively, traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean.

4, delete the driver backup

Windows XP comes with a large number of hardware drivers, in addition to some of the extra drivers used, other can completely delete it, find Windows The dirver cachedriver.cab file in the XP installation directory can be deleted, which can save about 70MB of hard disk space. However, be sure to ensure that the driver of your device has been completely installed before operation.

5, temporary files

Windows XP temporary files can be cleaned up with Windows's own disk, including recycle bins, internet temporary files, etc. You can periodically clean up according to your own situation. You can also use third-party software such as Super Rabbit, Windows Optimizer, customizer XP, etc. to clean up some junk files generated by the system, clear some historical records, etc. It is.