Disk space for XP Home

[WPG]

How much disk space is required for Windows XP Home edition? Is 6.4 GB
about right? I just installed XP on my clean 8 GB drive and this is how
much space it took.
WPG

 

[Guest]

6.4 Gb sounds about right.
You will have a file called PAGEFILE.SYS in C: (hidden file) which will be
approximately (1.5 x Memory size) - used by XP to swap stuff from memory to
disk and back again. Not much you can do about this file, XP needs it.

You can recover extra space by:

Right-clicking the Recycle bin and changing the amount reserved to something
like 5% (10% is default so your recycle bin will have reserved 800Mb !!)

Go into Control Panel and Power Option. Select Hibernation tab and turn it
off.

Run regular Disk cleanups (Right click C: drive and select Properties. Click
Cleanup button.


Regards,

TimH

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

That's quite a bit, but much depends on the user profiles created, the
programs installed, and the size of the pagefil.sys (virtual memory) and
hiberfil.sys (hibernate) files. Frankly, an 8GB drive is too small for
effective use, though you can make it work with some care and management.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Gordon]

How much disk space is required for Windows XP Home edition? Is 6.4 GB
about right? I just installed XP on my clean 8 GB drive and this is how
much space it took.
WPG

That's a HUGE size. A clean install of XP Pro (just done yesterday) with
SP2 - 1.8GB!!!!!! I should have a look as to what on earth is in your
Windows folder.

 

[Gordon]

TimH wrote:
|| 6.4 Gb sounds about right.

Nonsense! A fresh install of XP Pro with SP2 yesterday is 1.8GB!!!!!

|| You will have a file called PAGEFILE.SYS in C: (hidden file) which
|| will be approximately (1.5 x Memory size) - used by XP to swap stuff
|| from memory to disk and back again. Not much you can do about this
|| file, XP needs it.

So that means the OP has over *2GB* of RAM?

 

[Guest]

Minimum requirement for a fresh winxp-home installation is only 1033 MB. In
this case it does not copy C:\windows\system32\dllcache and other junk. Next,
you can delete many obsolete files to ~ 650 MB winxp, ~30 MB initial Program
Files, plus ~200-400 MB pagefile; move MyDoc to a storage partition, and
successfully run winxp-home from 1.5 GB partition. All the rest is called
“fat†and it’s up to you how much you’ll keep in your pc.
After each update remove c:\windows\$… files.