XP footprint on the new class of ultra low cost PCs
- From: hjacobson <harry.jacobson@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:28:31 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 15, 12:25 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
If you are concerned over less than 5GB of space total at any given time<snip>
being freed up on your hard disk drive - then something is wrong and
you would be better off spending a little and putting in a drive that is
likely 3-8 times as large as what you have not and not concerning
yourself over such a small amount of space OR you seriously need
to consider what you really need on the system and what should be
archived.
How little space can a fully functional WindowsXPinstallation really take<snip>
up - with a fully functional office suite, multiple Internet browsers, a
full (non-native) email client, antivirus, CD/DVD burning application, PDF
reader and creation applications, a decent image manipulation/creation
application, a good compression utility and generally all the common
Internet plugins...? About 4GB of space. And everything but WindowsXP
Professional (in this case) is freeware.
--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
With the advent of "netbooks" a.k.a. ultralow-cost PCs, Microsoft
committed to support XP on these machines through January 2010
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jun08/06-03ComputexPR.mspx.
The first popular netbook, the ASUS eeePC's have small solid state
disk (SSD) drives 4 - 8 GB in size and an SD card slot
I am Technology Director of a public charter school in Massachusetts,
grades 7 - 12. It makes good sense to configure netbooks for use in
the academic environment. For that reason I am experimenting with an
ASUS eeePC 701. This eeePC has a 4 GB SSD and an 8 GB SDHC card
configured as the 2nd fixed disk drive.
I slimmed down, that is, removed extraneous functions from XP with SP3
using nlite http://www.nliteos.com/. The operating system and basic
applications occupy about 2.5 GB of the 4 GB SSD. This is not a fully
functional install, merely the necessary functions required in our
academic environment. Basic applications include: Adobe Reader, Adobe
Flash, Mozilla Thunderbird, Symantec Endpoint Protechtion. Acronis
True Image Echo Workstation is also installed for image backup.
The school uses Microsoft Office. We looked into OpenOffice and judged
its user interface, rendering, and storing of office documents
imperfect. I configured Office to install on the D: drive. The Office
application with only the functionality required by the school
occupies under 400 MB. The D:\MSOCache occupies about 700 MB.
The issue I'm now working on is redirecting or installing certain XP
folders to the D: drive.
To wit: The folder C:\WINDOWS\Installer. The folder is currently
almost 800 MB. I've tried moving the folder to D:\WINDOWS\Installer,
replacing the original folder with a symbolic link using Sysinternals
junction http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx.
Windows Update and Windows Installer 3.1 do not "play well" with the
symbolic link C:\WINDOWS\Installer --> D:\WINDOWS\Installer. The
symbolic link is removed, to be replaced with a folder which is then
populated with the update du jour or install du jour.
If/when this problem is resolved we will have the basic configuration
for introducing netbooks in our school.
Harry Jacobson
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