Is your hard drive enough? Optimize WinXP hard disk space

Writing this question, many friends may not think it is necessary, because the hard disk is so cheap now, 40G can be bought in less than a thousand dollars, no need to optimize. In fact, even if your hard drive is large, reasonable arrangements and use are still necessary, which will make your system run well and maintain. For the friends of the small hard disk, it is necessary to mention the necessity.

First of all, XP space needs to have a minimum of 1.4G (10.2G hard disk, 196M memory), because the "system restore" and "hibernate" functions are enabled by default, The item will occupy a certain amount of hard disk and memory space depending on the size of the hard disk and the memory (if you use this function frequently, it is recommended to turn it off). Take the hibernation function, Windows XP sleep and Windows 98 different, Windows XP sleep can save the current system state in the memory to the hard disk completely, when you next boot, the system does not need to be loaded, the system Initialize the process, and go directly to the state you last hibernate, so the startup is very fast.

Another large-scale hard drive space is system restore. By default, the system enables this feature on all partitions. The larger the partition, the larger the occupancy. If your hard drive is not very large, it is recommended to enable it only on the partition where the system is located, and set it to "use minimum value", if your hard disk space is very scarce, it will be closed on all drives.


there is a large hard disk space occupied, this is the pagefile.sys file. It is a virtual memory file. For this file, it is recommended that you set it to other partitions instead of the partition where the default system is located. This can improve the read and write speed of the page file, which is beneficial to the fast running of the system and put it The size is set to 1.5 times the physical memory, and the maximum and minimum values ​​are the same.

In addition to the above said areas, do not usually pay attention to the software and systems installed in the same partition. In addition, Windows XP's "Disk Cleanup" function is also very useful, pay attention to regular or irregular cleaning. As shown below: