Delete Win XP wallpapers
A small tip for Windows XP users: Free up a few megabytes by removing the default desktop backgrounds in Windows. They are located in the following directories. Feel free to delete the contents, but not the directories them self.
It is not much, but since many never uses the default desktop backgrounds; it is nonsense keeping them on the machine.
Copyright © 2008 Daniel Aleksandersen 2008-07-14 at 10:07
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2 comments
This is one way of saving space, another would be not installing Windows
Still, everything helpes nowadays.
Comment by Kent Vegard Evjen (Subscribed) at 2008-07-15 @373.
When you have Windows installed on a very small partition just for gaming, every megabyte counts.
I do think this will make the computer a bit faster too. Since the wallpapers are never needed to be loaded into memory or thumbnail cached.
But then again, I do not even use a graphical boot-up screen for Windows!
I have never heard of anyone removing them, so I thought I would share the tip.
By the way, I just got a new job!
Comment by Daniel Aleksandersen at 2008-07-15 @401.
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