Minimize you?re windows xp installation.

Disclaimer : IANAG/Private Pyle/Pyleware takes no responsibility for any damaged incurred following this tutorial.

This tutorial is intended as a guide only, not all settings will work on all XP installations. Make sure you have a proper backup of ALL data.

This guide lists folders and files in the windows directory that can be deleted, this has been tried in XP home and XP pro but also work in windows nt and 2k.

If for some reason you can not delete a folder, just delete the files inside.

All of the paths listed in there are C:\Windows and C:\Program Files, if your folders have different names (Like C:\WINNT on windows 2k) then you should use that path instead.

Well, lets get started deleting.

1.) c:\windows\system32\dllcache\

NOTE: DON'T DELETE THIS FOLDER, JUST ALL THE FILES INSIDE! This folder uses a LOT of hard drive space, it holds a backup of every system file that windows uses. Deleting this will cause a SFC error when you replace a system file instead of windows putting back the original file. For people who want to mod there system, this is a good thing.

2.) c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\

NOTE: DON?T DELETE THIS FOLDER, JUST ALL THE FILES INSIDE! This folder only exists if you installed a service pack on XP, if you did a slipstream it won?t be here either. This folder is the same as the dllcache, but has the new files that were updated by a service pack. If you delete the dllcache, deleting this is just like finishing the job.