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what can safely be thrown away under xp sp2 for a typical user ?
dear ng,
I have installed windows xp sp2 (home edition) the windows directory is huge (about 3 Gb) !!! I am looking for suggestions what can safely be thrown away - programs a typical user like me won't use (typical=e-mail, www, office) thanks and best regards, Marcel |
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what can safely be thrown away under xp sp2 for a typical user?
Marcel: 3GB is about right for XP. To be brutally frank, what you need
to 'throw away' is your desire to mess with your computer's operating system. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Marcel Verduyn wrote: dear ng, I have installed windows xp sp2 (home edition) the windows directory is huge (about 3 Gb) !!! I am looking for suggestions what can safely be thrown away - programs a typical user like me won't use (typical=e-mail, www, office) thanks and best regards, Marcel |
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what can safely be thrown away under xp sp2 for a typical user ?
Hi,
I do agree with the statement `never touch a working system' ... but is really everything needed ? alternatively, is there possibility to move certain xp dirs to another partition/hdd ? regards, Marcel "Leonard Grey" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Marcel: 3GB is about right for XP. To be brutally frank, what you need to 'throw away' is your desire to mess with your computer's operating system. |
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what can safely be thrown away under xp sp2 for a typical user ?
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:11:24 +0200, "Marcel Verduyn"
wrote: dear ng, I have installed windows xp sp2 (home edition) the windows directory is huge (about 3 Gb) !!! To put that word "huge" into perspective, in these days of big expensive hard drives, that 3GB of hard drive space is about $3.00 (US) worth. Really very little, and 3GB by no means unusual. Unless you are very short of disk space, I wouldn't worry about this at all. And if you are so short of disk space that saving at best a portion of 3GB would make a big difference to you, you have much more severe problems, and urgently need a new bigger hard drive. Anything else you do will be just a stopgap measure. I am looking for suggestions what can safely be thrown away - programs a typical user like me won't use (typical=e-mail, www, office) That's a very difficult question for anyone here to answer, for two reasons: 1. We have no idea what's installed on your computer. 2. There's really no such thing as a typical user. We all have different needs and desires, and what I find useless may be your favorite program--and vice versa. You need to look for yourself to see what you have installed. If there's something there you don't use, by all means uninstall it. But don't expect to substantially reduce that 3GB. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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what can safely be thrown away under xp sp2 for a typical user?
Hi again:
Have a look at Control Panel Add or Remove Software Add/Remove Windows Components. If there's something you see that you don't think you'll be using (Games, Wallpaper, etc.) then remove it, but don't think you're going to gain a worthwhile amount of disk space from the exercise. As Ken wrote, if you're so desperate for disk space that you need to reduce your OS, what you really need is a bigger hard disk. Which is not to say that there aren't reasons to reduce the size of your system partition. One reason that immediately comes to mind is backing up: If you're using disk imaging software to backup your system, and you want the backups to run a little faster, there are things you can do to help yourself. For example: Empty your Recycle Bin, clear your caches and reduce the amount of disk space allocated to TIF, restore points and the Recycle Bin. You can also move My Documents to its own partition, which doesn't save any disk space but does reduce the size of your system partition. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est Marcel Verduyn wrote: Hi, I do agree with the statement `never touch a working system' ... but is really everything needed ? alternatively, is there possibility to move certain xp dirs to another partition/hdd ? regards, Marcel "Leonard Grey" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Marcel: 3GB is about right for XP. To be brutally frank, what you need to 'throw away' is your desire to mess with your computer's operating system. |
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what can safely be thrown away under xp sp2 for a typical user
Geeez enough with the Quotes. The thread isnt that long. Yeah there is a
perfectly good reason to cut down Xp's footprint. CLUTTER. I have an old Pentium III machine that im using as a dedicated server for multiplayer games. Obviously I dont need things like OUTLOOK EXPRESS, MSN Games, i could go on and on. So I used a program called XPlite to get rid of all that unnecessary stuff. Theres no way i was going to invest in more HD space for obvious reasons. try it out. Its easy to use and even allows you to get rid of all those seperate Uninstaller files for all this updates and stuff you dont need either. |
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