Microsoft explains the huge volume of Vista as follows: We have built millions of hardware drivers for Vista users, and at the same time, due to the upgrade of the system kernel, we must consider the functions compatible with the old kernel, which has led to a sharp increase in volume.
What about the size of Microsoft's next-generation operating system: Windows 7? Not as bloated as Vista, is it? Of course not. Microsoft has learned many lessons and made great improvements in the early stage of development. A notebook with 2G memory, after installing Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, takes up about 9G, which is 3G smaller than Vista! Today, our Win fighter will share with you the secret of Windows 7 reducing 3G fat. Are you curious about what a victory fighter is? At the end of the article, let's reveal the secret!
1. Move the virtual memory file to a non-system disk.
As we all know, in order to speed up the operation of the system, Windows provides a virtual memory mechanism, but in Windows 7, this function is turned on by default, and the virtual memory file is on the system disk. For example, for a machine with 2G memory, the virtual memory file size is 2G, and we can completely remove it! Make room for the system disk.
Specific setting process:
Step 1: Right-click My Computer on the desktop and select Properties. You will see the advanced system settings about the system interface in the upper left corner of this window.
Step 2: Select the first setting button in the newly pop-up setting window. Enter the performance settings, and select the change button at the bottom of the advanced tab to enter the virtual memory settings interface.
Step 3: First, remove the check mark from the first check box, so that we can modify the size and location of the virtual memory ourselves. Select the system partition in the disk list, select the nonpaged file, click the Settings button next to it, then select the non-system partition, select the size managed by the system below, and click the Settings button. If a dialog box appears in the middle, just select OK.
2. Turn off the hibernation function to save memory size and disk space!
Please pay attention to this sleep non-sleep function! Ordinary notebook users may take advantage. Hibernation means writing all the data in the memory to the hard disk, then shutting down the system and writing the saved data back to the memory the next time it is turned on. The advantage of doing this is that the work you are doing will be preserved, even after the power is cut off, which is why people often say that you don't have to turn off your phone for several months.
Most people don't use this function often, but we paid the same size of disk space as memory for it in vain, thank you! In fact, we can start it when necessary and close it directly at ordinary times.
Specific methods to turn on and off the hibernation function:
Copy the following code, paste it into Notepad, and then save the file with hibernation turned off. Bat.
@powercfg -h close
Copy the following code, paste it into Notepad, and then save the file as "Turn Hibernation on". Bat.
@powercfg -h on
When we want to turn off and turn on the hibernation function, we just need to run the above two bat files as an administrator, which is very simple!
3. Compress files and save 1G space!
It is said that under the Windows 7 folder, there is such a mysterious folder, its name is winsxs, its volume will be about 3 G, and there are many things in it, so it is best not to delete it at will! But we can also squeeze out the space of 1G from it!
Specific operation steps:
First, we need to add a new option in the right-click menu, "Administrator takes ownership". The method is simple, just install an optimization software called Vista Manager. Right-click the winsxs folder mentioned just now and select our newly added "Administrator takes ownership". So we can modify the properties of this folder. After those crazy CMD windows disappear, we right-click the properties of this folder again, select the advanced ... button, and check the check box in front of the compressed content to save disk space.
Click OK all the time to confirm, and the process of compressing files begins. During this process, there may be hints that some files are in use, so we can choose to ignore them all, which may last for about 20 minutes. The results are as follows:
The above is a detailed introduction to the slimming of Windows 7 system, hoping to help everyone.