A New Way To Slim Down Windows XP, Including SP2
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 11/14/2004 01:46 PM [ Print | 2 comment(s) ] · 5074 views
SecurityPipeline have a new article out that looks at slimming down Windows Xp! Here's a snip.
Windows has a well-deserved reputation as a large operating system. A standard installation of Windows XP (with nothing else installed) can easily occupy something in excess of 1.5 Gbytes of disk space. In part, that's because Windows is a general-purpose operating system. As such, it's a kind of kitchen sink software, with all manner of tools, capabilities, and functions thrown into the mix.
That trend started almost a decade ago when Microsoft built HTML rendering functions into Windows: What had previously been part of a separate application--a stand-alone browser--was now inside the operating system and available to any application or utility that wanted to use it.
A New Way To Slim Down Windows XP, Including SP2
Windows has a well-deserved reputation as a large operating system. A standard installation of Windows XP (with nothing else installed) can easily occupy something in excess of 1.5 Gbytes of disk space. In part, that's because Windows is a general-purpose operating system. As such, it's a kind of kitchen sink software, with all manner of tools, capabilities, and functions thrown into the mix.
That trend started almost a decade ago when Microsoft built HTML rendering functions into Windows: What had previously been part of a separate application--a stand-alone browser--was now inside the operating system and available to any application or utility that wanted to use it.
A New Way To Slim Down Windows XP, Including SP2
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Chimaera Unregistered |
#58144 Posted on: 11/14/2004 03:48 PM
Umm...I don't know if you could really call this a "new" way to slim down the OS. XPlite (to which this story refers) has been around for several months. Although it is nice to see word of this great product continue to spread. |
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B3astage Unregistered |
#58149 Posted on: 11/14/2004 08:50 PM
"can easily occupy something in excess of 1.5 Gbytes of disk space " .. OMG! 1.5gb thats like a whole 0.5% on my raid0 160gb satas... Do people actually care if its 1.5gb or just 1gb? |
