First of all, Windows 98

1. Delete unnecessary components

Open Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel and select the Windows Installer page. In fact, all components can be omitted here. As it turns out, this will not affect the operation of Windows. Since Microsoft says these things are dispensable, what are you afraid of? However, if you play games, you'd better choose audio compression, video compression, sound sampling and other options in multimedia.

2. Delete unnecessary fonts

Then go to the font folder in the Windows directory. In addition to the Song Dynasty, other Chinese fonts such as imitation Song Dynasty, regular script, bold, round and so on can be deleted. Note that only other Chinese fonts, not all other fonts. Those English fonts cannot be deleted. Moreover, those English fonts are so small that even if they are deleted, they will have no effect.

3. Delete unnecessary input methods

Everyone knows that you can delete unwanted input methods by right-clicking the input method icon in the lower right corner of the desktop, but you can see that the hard disk space has not decreased. Why? It turns out that Windows didn't delete the files related to the input method, so we have to delete them manually. The following is a list of files related to the input method that comes with Windows.

Full spell: Winpy.ime, Winpy.mb, Winpy.hlp, Winpy.cnt

Double spelling: Winsp.ime, Winsp.mb, Winsp.hlp, Winsp.cnt

Micro spelling: Pintllime.dll, Pintlgab.imd, Pintlgai.imd, Pintllgb. IMD，Pintlgd.imd，Pintlgie.imd，Pintlgnt.cnt，Pintlgnt.hlp，Pintlgnt.i96，Pintlgnt.ime，Pintlgrb.imd，Pintlgri.imd，Pintlgs.imd，Pintlgsi.imd，Pintlgsx.imd，Pintlgu.imd，Pintlguc……imd，Pintlgnt.ime。

Intelligent ABC:Winabc.cwd, Abcsda.dll, Abcwin.exe, Winabc.ime, Winabc.ovl, tmmr.rem, user.rem, Winabc.hlp, Winabc.cnt

Zheng code: Winzm.ime, Winzm.mb, Winzm.hlp, Winzm.cnt

Internal code input methods: Wingb.mb, Wingb.hlp, Wingb.cnt

Table codes: Winbx.mb, Winbx.ime, Winbx.hlp, Winbx.cnt

4. Delete other unnecessary rubbish to make our window slimmer.

Find all *. hlp，*。 Chm and *. Cnt file, and delete it all. These are all Windows Help files, so you can safely delete them. Of course, it won't help to watch it later. If you are unfamiliar with Windows, you'd better think it over before deleting it.

Find the sysbckup folder in the Windows directory, which contains some backups of Windows system files. When the system files in Windows are replaced, deleted or modified, Windows can automatically recover from them. Generally speaking, it is not necessary. Even if you want to use it, you can read it from the Windows installation disk at any time, and there is no problem in deleting it. There are two gears left, MINI. Cab and compact car 1. CAB, in the system folder, they have similar functions and can also be deleted.

Second, Windows 2000/XP.

Nowadays, many people install 98,2000 dual systems. Windows 2000 is a big fat man, and once a friend with a small hard disk is installed, there is no capacity. So now let's see how Windows 2000 slimmed down.

1. Delete driver backup

Enter the winnt\\driver cache\\i386 directory, and there is a compressed file named Driver.cab, which contains all drivers attached to Windows 2000. In the future, if the system configuration changes, such as adding hardware, Windows 2000 will automatically extract drivers from this file for installation. However, for most users, the computer configuration rarely changes. Even if the configuration is changed occasionally, drivers can be extracted from the CD of Windows 2000, so you can safely delete the Driver.cab file and free up 50MB of hard disk space.

2. Delete the system file backup

Enter the winnt\\system32\\dllcache directory, which contains nearly 250MB files, which are backups of Windows 2000 system files. When the system files of Windows 2000 are replaced, deleted or modified, Windows 2000 can automatically extract the corresponding system files for recovery, thus ensuring the stability of the system. You can't delete the folder directly, but you should enter the Sfc.exe/Purge cache command at the command prompt to clear it. As for some specific parameters of Sfc, please see the help of Windows 2000.

3. Users with large memory can customize the virtual memory capacity.

Windows 2000 automatically creates an implicit file named Pagefile.sys in the root directory of the system disk, which is a virtual memory file of Windows 2000. The default size is set to 65438+ 0.5 times the physical memory. The more memory, the more hard disk space will be occupied. The size of virtual memory can be modified in My Computer-Properties-Advanced-Performance options. It is suggested that users with large memory above 256M can adjust it appropriately, otherwise please don't change it.

4. Delete the backup files left when installing SP 1.

When installing SP 1, you can choose not to uninstall, which can reduce the capacity. After installation, you can enter the winnt\\ServicePackFiles\\i386 directory and delete all files with a size of ***200M. This is the backup left by installing SP 1. If you have backed up the source program, you can safely delete the files in this directory.

Now the capacity of Windows 2000 is also reduced by about 1/3, and the remaining capacity is enough for other applications.

Finally, I want to talk about applying software to lose weight. Nowadays, software generally has a custom installation method. Friends with small hard disks should choose this way to install, and remove unnecessary components, which can reduce a lot of capacity. For example, if some friends have poor English, they can install English software instead of its help file, because they can't understand it anyway. There is also the choice of software, which should be short and concise. Take ACDSee as an example. The latest version is version 3.x, but the capacity of version 3 is actually. X takes up a lot of space, and the speed of drawing pictures on a low-profile computer is far less than its old version. As for those graphics enhancement functions, it is better to find a software casually. So now someone on the Internet is looking for version 2.4 ACDSee instead of version 3.x. As long as you can pay attention to these two aspects, I believe that although the hard disk is small, there are still many softwares that can be installed. If you still feel that the hard disk space is not enough, I will quietly tell you a good solution. Take 1000 yuan to the hard disk counter in the computer market ...

The java folder under the Windows directory, which contains Java class files and other data files, can be deleted.