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This article mainly explains "how to save the hard disk space of the Vista system". The content of the article is simple and clear, and it is easy to learn and understand. Please follow the editor's train of thought to study and learn "how to save the hard disk space of the Vista system".

First, turn off system restore

"system restore" can help people restore to the previous normal state when there is a problem with the system, it will generate multiple restore points in the computer, but it takes up a lot of hard disk space, in fact, we just need to do a Ghost backup of disk C, and the "system restore" function can cancel it.

Open the control panel, type "system" in the search box in the upper right corner of the window, and then click the "turn on or off automatically create restore points" link in the search results.

At this time, a "system Properties" window will pop up, uncheck the front of the partition that you do not want to enable "system restore", click the "close system restore" button in the pop-up window, and then click the "OK" button.

If you don't want to turn off system restore, but just want to free up hard disk space by deleting some system restore points, you can do this.

Open the "computer" window on the desktop, use the right mouse button to click the system installation disk, such as disk C, then select "Properties" from the pop-up menu, click the "disk cleanup" button in the "disk Properties" window, then click "Files for all users on this computer" in the window that appears, and the system will display the disk cleanup window and click the "other options" tab. Then click the "clean" button under "system restore and Shadow" to delete it.

Turn off the display of thumbnails

There is a dynamic icon function in Vista, which can display files in the form of icons. For example, word files take the first page of the document as the icon, and video files take the first frame as the file icon, which is very good-looking and easy for us to find, but it also has shortcomings, because the system takes a lot of time to generate thumbnails of each file for the icon of the file, and also saves them automatically. This will take up a lot of hard disk space and system resources. If your computer is not well configured, you can turn off this fancy feature.

Open the "computer" window, press "Alt" to display the window menu, then click the menu "tools-folder options", click the "View" tab in the pop-up window, and then cancel the tick in front of "always show icons, never show thumbnails" under the "Advanced" settings.

Turn off the system hibernation function

By default, the Vista system turns on system hibernation, which makes a dormant file about the size of physical memory in the root directory of the system disk, taking up a lot of hard disk space. In fact, this function is not usually used, it would be better to turn it off.

Press the "win + R" key to open the "run" window, enter "powercfg Ch off" in the window, and press enter to turn off the sleep function of the system.

Delete useless files

On Vista systems, there are many files that can be deleted because they are left behind during installation. Here are a few files or folders that can be deleted directly, and deleting them can also free up near 1GB hard disk space.

Delete the "C:UsersPublic" folder

Some sample pictures, videos, etc., are saved here, which can be deleted, in which "C:UsersPublicRecorded TV Sample Media" is a sample TV recording file for Windows Media Center, 145MB, "C:UsersPublicMusic Sample Music" is sample music, and 60MB is available.

Delete the "C:WindowswinsxsBackup" folder

This folder contains some backup files, which can be deleted. There are more than 350 MB.

Delete the "C:WindowsHelp" folder

The system's help folder, if you do not need to use the system's help, then you can delete it, also has more than 100 MB size.

Delete the "C:WindowsDownloaded Installations" folder

Some applications will unzip the installation files into this folder when they are installed, and deleting it will have no effect on the system.

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