简单的方式增加您的计算机性能-节省硬盘空间!
张贴在2007年4月11日在8:56 pm
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您是否有没有一个巨大的硬盘的一台计算机，但是得到您的自由空间低的您存放很多图片、录影，或者其他大文件？ 一旦您的计算机得到低在硬盘空间，正常过程开始减速，并且您的计算机将痛苦地跑慢。 当然有许多其他原因为什么您的计算机也许慢慢地运行，但这个岗位具体地是为知道的那些人他们在磁盘空间缺乏。
如此而不是在也许由无用的临时文件或系统过程占去的您的计算机必须删除文件或移动事向USB棍子或外在硬盘，您能首先设法释放一些空间。 通常有三大空间“凶手”在设置默认情况下拱起磁盘空间，并且应该勒住的窗口，当您能!
1. 回收容器 -为什么采摘在回收容器嗯？ ？ 从未恼人和有时救生垃圾箱坐那里等待我们告诉它做的什么？ 很好，它也占去它不需要的很多空间。 回收容器使用您的硬盘的百分比为了存放被删除的文件。 默认情况下然而，这百分比被设置在非常高数量并且导致浪费很多空间。
这如何修理空间凶手#1。 第一用鼠标右键单击在回收容器在您的桌面和点击上 物产.
在全球性制表符，您能选择 为所有驱动使用你设置 或 独立地配置驱动 . It’s usually better to configure the recycle bin for each drive independently since it’s based on the size of the drive, so 5% of a 50GB hard drive is much bigger than 5% of a 20GB hard drive. At the top you’ll see tabs for each partition you have on your computer.
By default, the slider bar is usually set at something like 12%, which is very high! Unless you are deleting huge files, there will never be a need for a recycle bin that size. A good size is from anywhere between 3 to 5% of your hard drive. Drag the slider bar and you just saved yourself a good amount of space, especially if you have large hard drives. My computer is set to 1% and I’ve never had a problem recovering a file from the bin!
2. Turn Off System Restore - Another handy little service that can get your computer back up and running sometimes, but again takes up a lot of extra space that is not needed. Also, System Restore only recovers Windows files, not any of your data. So having System Restore enabled on any other drive other than your C drive (where Windows is installed) is completely useless.
To fix this one, right click on My Computer and choose Properties.
Click on the System Restore tab.
As you can see from my computer, I have a C and a D drive of which system restore has been turned off on D. Again, this is because System Restore does not protect your data, it only protects Windows system files, so you don’t need it for any other drive other than the main system drive. If you click on the C drive and choose settings, you’ll get the dialog box to set the amount of space.
For system restore, a value between 2% to 4% will be fine. The default 12% wastes loads and loads of space! I have mine set to 2% and even with that, I still have over 10 restore points to recover from if I needed to.
3. Delete temporary Internet Explorer files - Ahhh…if you like to browse the Internet hardcore like I do, then you MUST clean out your temporary files every once in a while or else it will take up lots of space. And again, as with the Recycle Bin and System Restore, we can set the max size for the amount of storage for temporary Internet files. And again, it’s set really high by default!
Open IE and go to Tools, Internet Options.
On the options dialog, under Browsing History, click on Settings.
Now here you can type in a value for the amount of space to be used!! When I first did mine, it was set to 1GB!!! So I had 1 whole GB of storage being used by temporary files that were never going to be used again anyway! Change that value to something very small like 25MB or even less if you like. After doing this, you should click Delete under the Browsing History section and delete all of the current data there.
4. Actually, there is a 4th thing you can do to get some disk space back! If you’re like most people, you probably use StandBy mode on your computer by simply closing the cover or pressing the power button. No one really uses Hibernate mode because why use that when you can use StandBy, which is easier and a lot faster! I personally have never used it and don’t think I ever will, but it takes up a good amount of space on your computer.
Go to Start, Control Panel and choose Power Options. If you are in Category view, click Switch to Classic View at the top left. Then click on the Hibernate tab in the Power Options dialog:
Make sure it’s unchecked. The hibernate feature takes up the amount of space equal to your RAM, so in my case I was wasting another 1GB of space!!!
Now you hopefully just saved yourself a couple of GB’s worth of space! Now you can last a little bit longer before having to move stuff off. If your computer is still running slow, check out my other articles on how to increase your computer’s performance in the Table of Contents at the top of the post!
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Another way I’ve used to save space is to, “Squish” files
(this can be done natively in XP & up, for the older OS’s you need WinZip or some file “compression” utility)
1) find a folder with a ton of my files
go back to the other window and select all the files in it
2) rt click or hit the “context menu” key on the keyboard
3) select “new”
4) “compressed zipped folder”
5) name it to whatever the content will be ie BMP’s.zip, JPG’S.zip or just “ZippedUp.zip”
6) double click it or click and hit enter
7) a new “Explorer” window opens
9) rt click and hold while dragging the files to the other window
10) a little context menu asking if you want to copy or move the files, select move.
this creates a “single” file containing all those files within it thus saving wasted clusters for files that don’t use an exact cluster size ie
4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, etc.
if your files aren’t these sizes they waste space.
the good thing about the native XP “compressed zipped folders” is that the files in it are availible to open just by opening the folder as you would any folder in explorer and opening the file or draging the file to your application, and for the others like WinZip etc. you need to open it first but hey if it saves space it’s still worth it.
:Edit(add on)
Also, defrag the drive after “creating” and moving the files into the “compressed zipped folder”
Cheers
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Hey I have a question, is it safe to uncheck my Java during start up? will it mess my laptop? I am using Windows Vista btw.
I never knew that decreasing the recycle bin space will be useful.But another tip is also to defrag your disk and perform disk cleanup regularly.Good post.
Hi:
I heard that a way to save on the life of the hard drive is to turn the computer off only once a month or when you have to do updates. Otherwise, use Standby as much as possible. Is this true? Thanks.