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Here is how to slim it and tweak it. While my passion is for Macs, the rest of my household prefer Windows. Fast forward to late , and I was given an EeePC for my son. The first thing I did was hop on my wife Windows laptop and grab nLite. A lot of these can be done after installation, but it is nicer to have a smaller footprint to begin with. Run through the installer, formatting the drive and setting your region settings as you go. Being an SSD based device the installation went very quickly and was done within 20 minutes.
I ensured all hardware was working, and installed any drivers it needed — which were for the ethernet port, the built in WiFi and the graphics chip. I had these on a USB flash drive. I set up my WiFi and activated my Windows. The next thing was to let Windows Update do its thing. It pulled in updates. Once all the updates were installed, MS Security Essentials was updated and ran its first scan, and with all apps installed and updated, I was left with just under 1 GB free space.
Pretty good going and more than enough for the machine to breathe, but there are some more things you can do to grab a little extra space. Firstly disable System Restore. While a handy feature if ever your Windows goes belly up, I have never used it and it can take up precious space.
Secondly, remove unwanted System Components. Thirdly, reduce virtual memory. Click Settings , and click the Advanced tab. Down the bottom is the Virtual Memory section. Click Change. I set mine to custom size of minimum MB and maximum of MB. This will drastically increase the free space on your SSD. Fifth, do Disk Clean up on the c: drive by right clicking on it and selecting Disk Cleanup , this will get rid of any left over temp files. Finally, do a Disk Compress on the c: drive by right clicking on it and tick the Compress drive to save disk space box.
This took a while to do and it came up a few times asking what to do with certain files. Some of these steps will need repeating from time to time to clear out anything that accumulates. However, in general your drive should stay well within the limit required by Windows to allow you to use it without any hassles and without that annoying warning about low disk space. After completing the above tasks and a few days of use my sons EeePC still has 1. While this was done for a 4 GB EeePC, most of these tips will work fine for other machines with smaller hard drives or if you are simply trying to free up some space.
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Tweaking Windows Once all the updates were installed, MS Security Essentials was updated and ran its first scan, and with all apps installed and updated, I was left with just under 1 GB free space.
Ongoing Some of these steps will need repeating from time to time to clear out anything that accumulates. Conclusion While this was done for a 4 GB EeePC, most of these tips will work fine for other machines with smaller hard drives or if you are simply trying to free up some space.
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