Can I install Windows XP on an SD card?

Run microsoft OS from SD card

Having an SSD of 15 GB on a netbook and short on free space.  Can XP/XP Pro be run from the SD card in this machine?... Can install apps on the SSD drive?

Having an SSD of 15 GB on a netbook and short on free space.  Can XP/XP Pro be run from the SD card in this machine?... Can install apps on the SSD drive?

Unlikely.

How many of the 15 GB is your thing compared to installed applications?  Would you put YOUR stuff on the outside?

In the end however, 15 GB - pretty anemic.  You will need to invest in a larger capacity disk or a secondary disk where your applications installyour and put your data.

Do a house cleaning and the dust of this hard drive:

You can free up disk space (will also help get rid of the things that you do not use) through the following steps:

Windows XP should take between 4.5 and 20 GB * with * an Office suite, editing Photo software, alternative Internet browser (s), various Internet plugins and a host of other things installed.  In most cases, especially with XP and applications most people use there, the numbers are closer to being less than 9 GB.  All the rest is stuff of the user.

If you are comfortable with the stability of your system, you can delete the uninstall of patches which has installed Windows XP...
http://www3.TELUS.NET/dandemar/spack.htm
(Especially of interest here - #4)
(Variant: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm )

You can run disk - integrated into Windows XP - cleanup to erase everything except your last restore point and yet more 'free '... files cleaning

How to use disk cleanup
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310312

You can disable hibernation if it is enabled and you do not...

When you Hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system memory in the hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys file will always be equal to the amount of physical memory in your system. If you don't use the Hibernate feature and want to reclaim the space used by Windows for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps:

-Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go to start, settings, Control Panel, and then click Power Options).
-Select the Hibernate tab, uncheck "Activate the hibernation", and then click OK. Although you might think otherwise, selecting never under "Hibernate" option on the power management tab does not delete the hiberfil.sys file.
-Windows remove the "Hibernate" option on the power management tab and delete the hiberfil.sys file.

You can control the amount of space your system restore can use...

1. Click Start, right click my computer and then click Properties.
2. click on the System Restore tab.
3. highlight one of your readers (or C: If you only) and click on the button "settings".
4 change the percentage of disk space you want to allow... I suggest moving the slider until you have about 1 GB (1024 MB or close to that...)
5. click on OK. Then click OK again.

You can control the amount of space used may or may not temporary Internet files...

Empty the temporary Internet files and reduce the size, that it stores a size between 64 MB and 128 MB...

-Open a copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
-Select TOOLS - Internet Options.
-On the general tab in the section 'Temporary Internet files', follow these steps:
-Click on 'Delete the Cookies' (click OK)
-Click on "Settings" and change the "amount of disk space to use: ' something between 64 MB and 128 MB. (There may be many more now.)
-Click OK.
-Click on 'Delete files', then select "Delete all offline content" (the box), and then click OK. (If you had a LOT, it can take 2 to 10 minutes or more).
-Once it's done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, open Internet Explorer.

You can use an application that scans your system for the log files and temporary files and use it to get rid of those who:

CCleaner (free!)
http://www.CCleaner.com/
(just disk cleanup - do not play with the part of the registry for the moment)

Other ways to free up space...

SequoiaView
http://www.win.Tue.nl/SequoiaView/

JDiskReport
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/JDiskReport/

Those who can help you discover visually where all space is used. Then, you can determine what to do.

After that - you want to check any physical errors and fix everything for efficient access"

CHKDSK
How to scan your disks for errors* will take time and a reboot.

Defragment
How to defragment your hard drives* will take time

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