Fight for megabytes on the Eee PC 701 4G
Having unpacked and turned on the brand new Asus Eee PC 701 4G with Windows XP Home from Eldorado, you will find that its 4GB SSD “hard drive” is only about 1.5 GB of disk space, and after installing updates for Windows XP, IE7, .NET Framework, JRE and it will remain at all somewhere 600-700 megabytes. Thinking to myself that this situation doesn’t suit me at all, I decided to maximally free up space on the SSD and this is what came of it.
The first thought was to clean the installed system to the maximum. Uninstall MS Work (399 MB), all applications related to Windows Live, cleaning the Windows folder from the garbage left by Windows Update, disabling the paging file. As a result, I managed to free up 1.9 GB of free space, and this, considering the installed JRE (110 MB) and Opera (13 MB), is a good result, in my opinion, but the idea that Win XP takes about 1.5 gigabytes did not allow me to rest.
Googling brought to the forum http://forum.eeeuser.com/ , and then through the topic to the Ultimate XP HOW-TO Guide page : XP SP2, 537MB install size, Boots in 17sec - a detailed guide on how to create and install on Eee PC Windows XP Home Edition SP2 is 537 MB in size and has a boot time of 17 seconds, and most importantly, no Windows XP FLP and Game Edition.
The main idea is to use the very useful free utility nLite . This utility allows you to create your own lightweight distribution based on the original Win XP distribution, kicking out “unnecessary” components, drivers, applications, etc. from it. On the recommendation of the author of the manual, I downloaded version nLite 1.4.1
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Use the native Win XP distribution from the disk that came with the laptop did not work because of the folder names. For nLite, the distribution kit should be located in the I386 folder, and on the ASUS disk, this folder was called i386XP. The blessing at me is the OEM distribution kit from a beech to a fujitsu-Siemens and nLite perfectly eaten it.
The nLite program has support for Russian, but I would recommend using English, so as not to mislead anything because of the translation. The manual provides detailed screenshots of nLite, at each stage of creating your own custom thread and they were made exactly in the English version.
Following the instructions and screenshots at the exit, I got an ISO image of a boot disk with a lightweight WinXP distribution, I removed not everything that the author recommended (left games, DHCP client, Media Player and even little things) and its size turned out to be around 150 MB .
Further:
The first thought was to clean the installed system to the maximum. Uninstall MS Work (399 MB), all applications related to Windows Live, cleaning the Windows folder from the garbage left by Windows Update, disabling the paging file. As a result, I managed to free up 1.9 GB of free space, and this, considering the installed JRE (110 MB) and Opera (13 MB), is a good result, in my opinion, but the idea that Win XP takes about 1.5 gigabytes did not allow me to rest.
Googling brought to the forum http://forum.eeeuser.com/ , and then through the topic to the Ultimate XP HOW-TO Guide page : XP SP2, 537MB install size, Boots in 17sec - a detailed guide on how to create and install on Eee PC Windows XP Home Edition SP2 is 537 MB in size and has a boot time of 17 seconds, and most importantly, no Windows XP FLP and Game Edition.
The main idea is to use the very useful free utility nLite . This utility allows you to create your own lightweight distribution based on the original Win XP distribution, kicking out “unnecessary” components, drivers, applications, etc. from it. On the recommendation of the author of the manual, I downloaded version nLite 1.4.1
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Use the native Win XP distribution from the disk that came with the laptop did not work because of the folder names. For nLite, the distribution kit should be located in the I386 folder, and on the ASUS disk, this folder was called i386XP. The blessing at me is the OEM distribution kit from a beech to a fujitsu-Siemens and nLite perfectly eaten it.
The nLite program has support for Russian, but I would recommend using English, so as not to mislead anything because of the translation. The manual provides detailed screenshots of nLite, at each stage of creating your own custom thread and they were made exactly in the English version.
Following the instructions and screenshots at the exit, I got an ISO image of a boot disk with a lightweight WinXP distribution, I removed not everything that the author recommended (left games, DHCP client, Media Player and even little things) and its size turned out to be around 150 MB .
Further:
- Reinstalled the system from the received disk
Install the driver from the native disk
Configured Wi-Fi, updated and installed IE7 through Windows Update
Removed in C: \ Window all folders with names starting with "$" and the contents of the folders C: \ Windows \ SoftwareDistribution \ Download \ and C: \ Windows \ ie7 updates (update garbage)
Disabled the paging file (I expanded the memory to 2 GB and the need for a swap was gone), sleep mode, set 5% for system recovery, turned off disk indexing
As a result, I got installed licensed Windows XP Home Edition SP2, with fresh updates installed, IE7 installed, Media Player 11, occupying the C drive: only 750 MB and as many as 2.9 GB of free space, which I wish all of her users.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/22623/
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