How can I cut XP size?

[NikS]

Foreword: I plead guilty - I use WinBlows XP.  

Subject: How can I cut XP size from 1.3 Gb?

[KernelPanic]

you mean shrink the NTFS partition?

[NikS]

No, I mean maybe deleting some files/folders or smth like that (as you see I'm a newbie in these questions)

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by NikS:
Foreword: I plead guilty - I use WinBlows XP.      

Subject: How can I cut XP size from 1.3 Gb?

foreword: why the fuck are you posting here then? try the windows BS instead.

Answer: you can't. you can't get rid of the spyware either, or make it anything approaching stable.

Solution: get a real operating system. Start here: http://linuxiso.org/

edit: actually you might be interested in this little article:
Windows does everything I want it to, except how do i fix xxx problem?

[ June 05, 2003: Message edited by: Calum ]

[NikS]

Yes, the article was quite interesting. I guess I'll follow the "choice E" and kill the damn OS.

[Refalm]

quote:NikS: How can I cut XP size from 1.3 Gb?

Click on "My Computer" from the Start menu and go to your C:\ disk.
Now start randomly deleting directories. If it says that it can't remove a certain directory, then go on to the next one. Be sure to delete subdirectories, dll's and large files too!

[NikS]

Thanks for the advice, but what is "My Computer"?

And I think format C:\ would be better then.

Yeah, I guess it was a stupid topic. So let everyone point a finger at me and say "what a moron".

[Calum]

i wouldn't say you were a moron!

refalm's solution is actually the only real way to pare down the size of windows xp (sad but true), and i don't think you are a moron at all, especially since your second or third post was saying you were thinking about ditching windows.... usually people don't ditch windows unless they are capable of reasonable and rational though.

[Fett101]

Well... one small thing you can do is uninstall uneeded components. Go to Start>control panel>add/remove programs>add/remove windows components, and uninstall what you don't need, but that's olny about 70 mb.

Other then that, if your hard drive is running out of room, ask yourself if you need a larger one for multimedia collections or programs. Or if you just need a CD burner for those few office documents that may be over the top.

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by fett101:
Well... one small thing you can do is uninstall uneeded components. Go to Start>control panel>add/remove programs>add/remove windows components, and uninstall what you don't need, but that's olny about 70 mb.

actually you could happily remove about 1.2 gigabytes that you don't need and replace it with a decent operating system instead, as mentioned above.

 

quote:Other then that, if your hard drive is running out of room, ask yourself if you need a larger one for multimedia collections or programs. Or if you just need a CD burner for those few office documents that may be over the top.

i am shocked to hear you say that! do you work for microsoft support? that sounds like the sort of answer i'd expect from them...

[Fett101]

It'd really depend on the size of his current HD, the type of content on his hard drive, and what he plans to do with the extra space. He doesn't really give much detail.

[LordWiccara]

hey, if ur gonna use winblows, download yourself a copy  of windows 2000, burn the iso to a disk, and put it in your cdrom drive.  make sure to back everything up that u need to save like papers and such.  reset your computer, and follow the install instructions to reformatt and install win 2000.  if u need to, i can send u a copy of the cd and serial code through the mail.  never use xp, its the worst thing ever created.  you should also try a dual boot with a linux distro like mandrake or redhat.  and if ur gona use linux, buy the damn cds...itll save u a lot of time and hassel, they arent that expensive anyways.

[NikS]

That would be hard to send smth from the US to Russia. And there is no guarantee that I'll receive the cd undamaged    But that would be great anyways, 'cause I don't have a win2k cd.

My problem is I never used linux (well, I've never actually _seen_ it, exept of a CD   ) so could you please name some sites with FAQs about this OS?

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by ArmTheHomeless:
hey, if ur gonna use winblows, download yourself a copy  of windows 2000, burn the iso to a disk, and put it in your cdrom drive.  make sure to back everything up that u need to save like papers and such.  reset your computer, and follow the install instructions to reformatt and install win 2000.  if u need to, i can send u a copy of the cd and serial code through the mail.  never use xp, its the worst thing ever created.  you should also try a dual boot with a linux distro like mandrake or redhat.  and if ur gona use linux, buy the damn cds...itll save u a lot of time and hassel, they arent that expensive anyways.

what the hell? download the windows 2000 CD (which is illegal) but buy linux (which is free)? You are encouraging him to brake the law and to pay a company money for a product before he even knows if he likes it or not? I'm all for linux and hate windows more than anything, but that's just messed up.

[Refalm]

Better solution: leave Windows XP, install Linux, and use Windows XP only for games that you can't run in Linux.