Write this topic, there may be many friends who don't feel too much, because the hard drive is so cheap, 40g can be purchased, and it is not possible to optimize. In fact, even if your hard drive is big, reasonable arrangements and use are still necessary, which allows your system to operate well and convenient maintenance. For friends of small hard disks, the necessity is not to say.
First, the space requirements of XP must have a minimum of 1.4g (10.2g hard drive, 196M memory), due to the "System Restore" and "Sleep" function is enabled by default, these two will be different due to the size of the hard disk and memory Occupy a certain hard disk and memory space (if you often use this feature, it is recommended to turn off it). Take
Sleep function, Windows XP sleeps and Windows 98 different, Windows XP sleep can save the current system status in memory to the hard disk, when you start it, the system does not need to load, system initialization, etc. The process, and directly to the state of your last sleep, therefore started very fast.
Another occupied hard disk space is
system Restore. The system is default to enable this feature on all partitions, the larger the partition, the greater the occupation. If your hard drive is not very big, it is recommended to enable only on the partition where the system is located, and set to "Use the minimum value", if your hard disk space is very shortage, then close it on all drives.