Reducing windows xp footprint

I pointed you here from Microsoft community in the hopes you would get a more comprehensive answer and have subscribed to your stack overflow thread as well but I am unsure exactly what the problem is. Win 10 64bit minimum is 2 gigs just for the OS. Add a couple of VMS each and you are right at the edge of the physical memory. The event data indicates a "memory exception" c and the faulting module is QtCoreVBox4.

Can we assume you are running the newest version of VB and by extension the faulting module? Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in.

United States English. Ask a question. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. How do you reduce windows 7 install size? Thread starter Cheetoz Start date May 24, Cheetoz [H]ard Gawd.

Joined Mar 3, Messages 1, I want to reduce my windows 7 disk footprint to be as small as possible, 12gb is too much. I've googled, but I have not found any useful results. I'm willing to have upto 3gb of space being used by windows, but thats still too much.

Joined Dec 11, Messages 4, Install Win 7 starter if you are that worried about it. Gorankar [H]F Junkie. Joined Jul 19, Messages 10, You could also try Windows embedded if you really want to mess around with it. I must admit I am curious about the why's of your 3GB limit. Sovereign 2[H]4U. Joined Mar 21, Messages 3, If you are willing to experiment and have things possibly break, you can use RT7Lite to attempt to strip it down.

Just follow the below steps:. Step 2: Type in the following command and run it to compress the OS installation files:. Hibernation files also take up a lot of space on your drive — up to several gigabytes. Fortunately you have the power to control it.

Follow the simple steps below:. The paging file takes up plenty of space. The good news is that you can limit the size yourself. Step 6: Uncheck the option: Automatically manage paging size for all drives and after selecting the Custom size option, choose the initial and maximum size for paging file and click on Set and OK.

You can choose one of the above ways or you can even try all of them to free up maximum space. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Site Notice Privacy Policy.