Compacting XP VPC Images
Someone had posted a comment on my blog asking how I get my VPC images down to a reasonable size, so I figured I'd share it here. It's not the most fun process, but it does manage to get a VPC image down from about 5+ gigs, to about 1.5 or so. To start, make sure you do not have undo disks turned on. Create a backup copy of your VPC image, you'll need this later, and it's good to have in case anything goes wrong. In the Add/Remove Components in the control panel, remove any software (applications and Windows components) that you don't need Clear the DLL cache at the command prompt, type " sfc /cachesize=1 " reboot the computer at the command prompt, type " sfc /purgecache " Delete all $something$ files from the %windir% directory except $hf_mig
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