Cut Down Windows XP Feature (Page 1 of 6)
Cut Down Windows XP
Progress is a fact of life, and the PC industry is one of the fastest progressing industries around. Last year, the maximum size hard drive you could buy was about 200Gb, now you can get 500Gb drives, and 700Gb are also on the way. As storage increases, so does the size of the programs you install on them. Some of this size increase is because the user demands more features, e.g. more clip art and fonts for use with their word processor, and some is because the software manufacturers release software with new and improved features. The new features mean that software gets bigger, which means hard disks need to get bigger, which means software can get bigger - quite a nice vicious circle I think! However, take a closer look at any software package that’s been around for a few years, and the latest version can do more things (is more feature rich) than the previous version, but also takes up more storage space than the first version - but the user (you and me) still do the same things with it. My word processor has built in voice recognition to allow me talk to the computer, but I still type all my articles.
In this article we'll talk about some of the things you can do to cut down the size of your Windows XP installation. We'll show you how to clean up your temporary files and remove old service pack updates as well as show you some advanced tweaks to save space.
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